New and Improved Front Matter Interfaces

Features August 09, 2016

CloudCannon is committed to bringing the best editing experience to static and Jekyll sites. We provide world-class interfaces for your clients to update their front matter, a core offering of Jekyll.

Plugins and SSL Private Beta

Features May 17, 2016

This week we are excited to announce the beginning of two features: the ability to use Jekyll plugins and SSL support. Both features are in private beta, contact support to request early access.

Inline Editing of Markdown Pages

Features April 11, 2016

This week we announce a long awaited feature, inline editing of Markdown files. This feature means that posts, collection items or pages written in Markdown are editable in the Visual Editor automatically. The ability to edit posts in context has been requested since the introduction of blogging.

Deploy Jekyll sites anywhere using jekyll-hook

Tutorial January 26, 2016

In the last tutorial, we used Travis CI to deploy a Jekyll site to Amazon S3. This tutorial covers using jekyll-hook to automatically deploy changes from GitHub/CloudCannon to your own server.

Editor Links

Features January 25, 2016

Editor Links are a new CloudCannon feature to add in-app navigation around the editing interface. Use them to create edit buttons on blog posts and collections items in the editor for your clients.

Deploy Jekyll sites to S3 using Travis CI

Tutorial January 21, 2016

CloudCannon consolidates editing and reliable hosting into a single package. Alternatively, you can use external hosting solutions and keep editing in CloudCannon.

Output Drafts and Collection Defaults

Features December 17, 2015

This week we have a smaller release for some highly requested configuration. We added draft post compiling and defaults for creating collection items.

Site Status and New User Flow

Features December 10, 2015

Since our last release, we’ve focused on existing interfaces and adding features in our continuing effort to improve the CloudCannon experience. These improvements are driven by your feedback and support.

Editables Everywhere, Easier Navigation and Link Editing

Features October 06, 2015

In the past two weeks we’ve released major features to make CloudCannon easier to use. Thanks to all the customers who have provided valuable feedback which inspired these changes.

Drupal vs Jekyll + CloudCannon

Comparison September 24, 2015

This is the first of a series where we compare a traditional content management system with a static approach of Jekyll + CloudCannon. We will take an HTML5 template and integrate it into different systems.