Meet the Hugo blog engine that integrates with your website using a straightforward API. Smooth, simple, and tasty content integration — that’s Butter.
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the blog you build with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Hugo
Our Hugo blog engine has a simple content API and drop-in SDKs that make the magic happen in minutes, not hours.
A truly zero-maintenance solution
With ButterCMS, you’ll never worry about security upgrades, hosting, or performance again.
You've got better things to do than build another blog
Drop our Hugo blog engine into your app, and get back to more interesting problems.
ButterCMS is an API-based blog engine that integrates seamlessly with new and existing Hugo apps. It's great for SEO, and provides a clean and modern user interface that your marketing team will love. You can deploy ButterCMS in minutes using our Hugo API client.
That leaves plenty of time for you and your marketing team to do what you do best: create killer apps with killer content.
After shopping the market, it was clear that ButterCMS was the perfect choice. It allows our developers to build powerful components and makes it easy for our marketing team to drive a better customer experience.
Hampton Catlin Creator of Sass and Haml
Deploy our Hugo Starter in 30 seconds!
Or follow the below commands to clone a copy of the repo from github, install dependencies, set your free Butter token, and
run your local server on localhost:1313/.
$ git clone https://github.com/ButterCMS/hugo-starter-buttercms.git
$ cd hugo-starter-buttercms
$ go mod download
$ echo 'BUTTERCMS_API_TOKEN=your_token' >> .env
$ go run github.com/ButterCMS/hugo-starter-buttercms/prebuild
$ hugo server
Built to make content marketing easy
ButterCMS is the best Hugo blog engine for a simple reason: Hugo developers can build solutions that marketing people love. Our API allows your content gurus to quickly spin up high-converting blog templates, sidebars, related content features, and more, all using simple drag-and-drop functionality.
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Hugo app in minutes. It’s so simple! To demonstrate, here’s a mini tutorial to give you a feel for the process of adding Butter to your Hugo app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Hugo app.
Seamless Hugo components
Empower your marketing team to create a customized blog engine that aligns perfectly with your Hugo components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Hugo app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Hugo components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
The best Hugo blog engine for SEO
ButterCMS gives you absolute control over on-page SEO ranking factors. Key SEO variables are built into our default post template, giving your marketing team direct access to configure all of these settings, and more.
How to integrate ButterCMS into your Hugo application
Integrating the Butter blog engine into your Hugo app is dead simple. Here's a mini tutorial to get a feel for setting up your blog home and blog post pages.
1. First, install our ButterCMS Go SDK via $ go get github.com/buttercms/buttercms-go.
go get github.com/buttercms/buttercms-go
2. Now, let's fetch some content from Butter! In addition to fetching single pages, pages by type, and collection items, we can also used Butter's integrated blog functions to fetch blog posts, including ordering and filtering by tags, categories, fields, and more. For this example, let's just fetch all blog posts:
