Cecil is a CLI application that merges plain text files (written in Markdown), images and Twig templates to generate a static website.
Responsive images are generated automatically, converted to WebP and compressed to reduce load time.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- No database, no server, no dependency: performance and security.
- Pages are stored in Markdown flat files with a YAML front matter.
- Powered by Twig, a flexible template engine, with themes support.
- Pagination, sitemap, redirections, robots.txt, taxonomies, RSS are generated automatically.
- Handles and optimizes assets for you.
- Download one file and run it.
- Easy to deploy – create & deploy a new blog in 1 minute.
- SEO helpers to generate Open Graph meta tags, structured data and more.
- Internationalization support.
Website: github.com/Cecilapp/Cecil
Support:
Developer: Arnaud Ligny
License: MIT License
Cecil is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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