Cecil, your content driven static site generator.

Cecil is a CLI application that merges plain text files (written in Markdown), images and Twig templates to generate a static website.

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Read the Quick Start documentation page.

• No database, no server, no dependency: performance and security
• Your 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

Download cecil.phar from your browser or from your terminal:

curl -LO https://cecil.app/cecil.phar

Then install the binary globally:

mv cecil.phar /usr/local/bin/cecil
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cecil

PHP 7.4+ is required.

• Get help: cecil help
• Create new website: cecil new:site
• Build and serve it: cecil serve

See Contributing.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Arnaud Ligny 🐛 🖋 📖 💡 🤔 🚧 📣 💬 👀 🌍 ⚠️ ✅ 📢 📆	Frank Taillandier 📖 🤔 📣 🌍 🧑‍🏫	Martin Szulecki 🐛 💻 🤔	Matthieu Vion 🐛 💻	Chun-Sheng, Li 💻 🛡️	Benjamin Hirsch 🐛 💻	Pete Favelle 🐛 💻 🤔
Gert de Pagter 🐛 🚇	Joe Vallender 🐛	Jawira Portugal 🐛	Yufan You 🛡️

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Cecil is a free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license.

Cecil © Arnaud Ligny
Logo © Cécile Ricordeau