So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Hugo
Our Hugo CMS has a simple content API and drop-in Hugo SDK that makes 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.
Powerful CMS for Hugo. Zero headache.
Drop our API-based CMS into your Hugo app in minutes.
ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for Hugo and Hugo apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our Hugo CMS set up in one hour or less.
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 headless cms for Hugo 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, dynamic landing pages, SEO pages, product marketing pages, 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 marketing pages to your Hugo or Hugo app.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Hugo app.
Seamless Hugo components
Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align 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.
One Hugo CMS with everything you need
There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless Hugo CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full Hugo API.
2. Now, let's fetch some content from Butter! As soon as you create your Butter account, a sample page, "simple page", is set up for you. We can quickly use the Butter Go SDK to fetch your page and return it as a json response.
With Butter, you can fetch all your pages, page types, collections, blog posts, and more as simple json responses for your Hugo app! It's really that easy!
