We just hit "publish" on the new CloudCannon Docs! We've been rebuilding our documentation site from scratch so devs and editors have their own dedicated paths using the Diátaxis framework. Built with: ⚡️ @lume.land SSG 🔎 Pagefind for search Check it out: cloudcannon.com/documentation/

Brother needs a blog. I fire up Claude Code on the phone, instructs it to deploy Hugo in a private repo with a theme and Cloudcannon config. I wire things up in Netlify. Blog ready in an afternoon. Brother is pleased.

Thanks for sponsoring Astro, @cloudcannon.bsky.social!

Configuration mode, who has tried it? 🙋 🙋 🙋 You can now adjust your site settings live in CloudCannon. Spot an input that needs tweaking? Click to change it. In the example below, we: - Change an img path to an image preview - Update the tags input to a multiselect

Expanded Editable Regions are here! Editable Regions now support front matter, data files, and template files (.astro, .tsx, etc). Editors can modify text, images, arrays, and source content right where they appear. Find out more in the Community: community.cloudcannon.com/t/cloudcanno...

Twitch rebuilt 15+ websites on CloudCannon. Now content updates take minutes, not days. The results: ⚡️ Websites updated in minutes 🌍 27 languages supported 🧩 Reusable components 💻 Devs stay in Git (no compromises) 🚫 0 servers to maintain cloudcannon.com/customers/tw...

🌐 Hosting just got an upgrade! We’ve boosted hosting allocations on our Standard and Team plans, and dropped prices for add-ons. 💥 Standard: 75 GB → 110 GB 💥 Team: 300 GB → 700 GB 💥 Add-ons: $15 per 100 GB (down from $20) cloudcannon.com/blog/your-ho...

AbsoluttWeb can deploy a fully functional, high-performance client website in just 60 minutes! We love hearing how our agency partner's use CloudCannon 💙

✨ Another brilliant agency is now listed in the CloudCannon Experts Directory — meet Clever Age. Based in France, Clever Age has been building digital experiences since 2001. They use CloudCannon to power content websites for global brands. cloudcannon.com/experts/clev...

Testing URLs just got an upgrade ✨ Instead of sending your client something like: brave-submarine.cloudvent(dot)net … you can now send them: clientproject-youragency.cloudvent(dot)net Available for Team, Partner, and Enterprise customers! cloudcannon.com/blog/custom-...

Current passion tech stack: Astro with Tailwind 4 with DaisyUI on/with CloudCannon CMS connected to GitLab. Kubernetes with Skaffold profiles for dev (MicroK8s), uat, prod through GitLab CI/CD for KrakenD API gateway, Keycloak, PostgreSQL, Golang apps.

Website performance isn’t just about speed. It’s about SEO. Reliability. Scaling without complexity. One CloudCannon customer jumped from page 4 to page 1 on Google, just by switching to a static-first setup. Curious how your stack compares?

Partner Spotlight 👏 Firebrand After 15 years in the game, Firebrand made the switch to a static-first stack with CloudCannon and haven’t looked back. ✅ 3× faster deployments ✅ Happier clients ✅ Full project visibility 🎥 Hear how it’s going: youtu.be/Nq8IpNUi3p4?...

From pain to 100x traffic gain 🤯 GM Construction switched from Wordpress to CloudCannon + @11ty.dev, and the results were huge! ✅ PageSpeed 50s → 90+ ✅ Page 4 → Page 1 on Google ✅ 100× more traffic ✅ $3k/month saved ✅ 95% cheaper leads cloudcannon.com/customers/ga...

Input validation is on the way! Tell us what you think 💡 It's one of our most requested features: giving developers more control with validation rules so editors provide the right data. We'd love your feedback. Find the plan in the Community community.cloudcannon.com/t/upcoming-i...

🚨 New CloudCannon features just dropped: ✅ Resolve Git conflicts in-app with a color-coded UI ✅ Revamped Publishing page (hello, Summary tab) ✅ Upgraded domain management with dedicated tabs Quick demo 👇 youtu.be/6JbC0ld3x3A?...

"I almost forgot that website maintenance was a thing. That’s something you just don’t need to do when you have this static tech stack." Despite currently managing over 60+ client websites, Sindre notes, “I can have days with no emails and no problems.”

The wait is over... the CloudCannon Community is live! Join us to connect, learn and share at community.cloudcannon.com 💙

"Adding search functionality to a static website no longer requires compromising its static nature." 💙

Tom's back with a new Astro + CloudCannon tutorial! This time, he’s sharing how to create Snippets in the Content Editor — so you can easily add custom elements to your blog posts. Full video tutorial here ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=11m7...

A great article about adding Pagefind search to an @11ty.dev site 🔍

👀 🤩 💙 ... CloudCannon Community, coming soon!

Managing multiple websites doesn’t have to be chaos. CloudCannon Projects keep everything organized. Need a new branch? Spin up a site in seconds. Want a clear view of your publishing workflow? It’s visualized for you!

Last week’s update brought some handy improvements to CloudCannon: ✨ Added new URL input configuration options to configure dropdown menu: - hide_link_to_file - hide_link_to_page - hide_link_to_email_address 🔍 Clearer error messages 📸 Smarter screenshot fetching cloudcannon.com/documentatio...

Show, don’t tell. Share your web edits with your team 🔎 💻 With free testing domains on CloudCannon, your team can review updates, give feedback, and approve changes before you publish!

No compromises here! Happy developers + Happy editors working together on content management 💙

I used Pagefind on my personal site to test it. I'm impressed! Pagefind is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure. pagefind.app

It's all about customization💡 Set up the best editing interface for your team, and watch those blog posts get published with speed!

🟠 99% of visitors: “Still loading? Nope, I’m out.” 🟣 1%: “I’ll wait patiently.” (who are these people?) Faster pages = happier visitors, and more business growth

@astro.build + CloudCannon = a match made for your blog ✅ Tom’s latest tutorial walks you through setting up a blog and customizing it for an editor-friendly experience. Check out the full video here 👉 youtu.be/VCbZV-SCr20?...

🙌 J'ai enfin pris le temps d'ajouter la recherche sur mon site perso avec Pagefind ~ pagefind.app. J'en ai profité pour corriger les erreurs qui sont apparues avec le temps, fixer quelques bugs et monter les versions. Plus qu'à retrouver le courage de l'alimenter🤞 Résultat : jbuget.fr

That’s a wrap for 2024 — we’re looking forward to helping everyone edit their websites next year!

We love hearing how CloudCannon makes content workflows faster and smoother for teams 💙 A big reason for that? The visual editor ⤵️ It gives non-technical editors the power to create pages on their own, no need to ask a developer for content updates!

Sorry it took so long for us to post again here, our code was compiling

Headless CMSs can be a game-changer. By separating the backend (content) from the frontend, they let you build the way you want. We recently released Headless Mode, so you can create exactly what you need: ✅ Fully hosted static websites ✅ Server-side rendering (SSR) ✅ Fully hosted APIs

Update: I added a search function to my blog using "pagefind"! https://reillyspitzfaden.com/blog/ #indieweb #Eleventy #11ty #blog #webdev #programming

🎙️ For those familiar w/ @httparchive.org's WEB ALMANAC, we're going to be live! Dec 10th with some of the authors in the 1st of a series of streams covering the 2024 edition. 17M sites, 83TB of data. Join us! 📆 Tuesday Dec 10th, 13h EST 🔗 RSVP here: bit.ly/web-almanac-2024 Spare a RT? ⚡️

“You need a dynamic website for a modern experience.” Do you, though? 🚲 🚲 🚲 A static website is lightweight, secure, and easier to maintain — perfect for most use cases. Unless you truly need the horsepower of a dynamic site, why take on extra complexity?

We've all been there — that moment of dread when you realize your "quick fix" somehow broke three other things on your website. Good times, right? 😅 We're bringing branching workflows to content management, so all users can benefit from Git!

This has got to be a good thing, right? #teamworkmakesthedreamwork

My company is in a code freeze right now which ends Friday, and another code freeze starts mo day i want ro send the whole company one of @cassidoo.co’s don’t deploy on Friday clips.

🧭 Pagefind by CloudCannon @[email protected] is a fully static search library that aims to perform well on large sites, while using as little of your users’ bandwidth as possible, and without hosting any infrastructure. #search #webtools #StaticSites #StaticWebsites pagefind.app

📈 🚀 Why are so many brands going static-first? It’s all about speed, security, and cost efficiency! The latest Web Almanac report by HTTP Archive reveals a striking 67% growth in static and hybrid websites among the top 10,000 most-visited sites. cloudcannon.com/blog/the-ris...

$150,000 annual savings & 3x developer efficiency 🤯 DX switched their website to CloudCannon and @11ty.dev, and the results have been game-changing! Read more here: cloudcannon.com/customers/dx/

Writing the Jamstack chapter for the 2024 Web Almanac report this year was eye-opening. The standout: the average Astro site has a JavaScript footprint that's 72% lighter than Next.js 🤯 almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/jams...

Join us for the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good (We are running a conference in May 2024!) conf.11ty.dev

The video where @zachleat.com walks through the creation of a Taylor Swift lyrics fansite with multi-language content editing in CloudCannon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHX...

📮 New blog post: Let’s create a microblog with visual editing using Bookshop and Eleventy @11ty.dev cloudcannon.com/blog/create-...