Cecil, a simple and powerful 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.

Quick Start

Read the Quick Start documentation page.

Create and deploy a blog site:

Features

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

Important

PHP 8.1+ is required.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

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

npx all-contributors add
npx all-contributors generate

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