Intuitive admin interface
So easy to use. So easy to customize. You’re going to love the content you build better with ButterCMS.
Handy integration with Pelican
Our Pelican CMS has a simple content API and drop-in Pelican 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 Pelican . Zero headache.
Drop our API-based CMS into your Pelican app in minutes.
ButterCMS provides a component-based CMS and content API for Pelican and Pelican apps. Use ButterCMS to enable dynamic content in your apps for page content, blogs, and anything else. Most customers get our Pelican 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.
See how Butter’s API enables you to compose flexible page layouts and easily reorder components, without a developer.
“Best CMS on the market”
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
Built to make content marketing easy
ButterCMS is the best headless cms for Pelican for a simple reason: Pelican 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.
The simplest Pelican CMS you'll find
Our simple setup saves you time and money. Take us for a spin to see for yourself!
It's the epitome of plug-and-play simplicity for content creators. It does exactly what I need it to. LUKE GARDNER, CONTENT SPECIALIST, PRINTAVO
Fast integration with any Pelican app
Our mission was to make it easy to integrate Butter with your existing Pelican 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 Pelican app.
Of course, you can also use our Collections to do advanced content modeling. For a full integration guide, check out our Official Guide for the ButterCMS Pelican API client.
See how easily you can integrate the ButterCMS Pages API with your Pelican app.
Seamless Pelican components
Empower your marketing team with dynamic landing pages that align perfectly with your Pelican components.
Components are the essential building blocks of any Pelican app, and ButterCMS handles them with ease.
Our drag and drop interface makes it simple to structure your content to match existing Pelican components and to create new reusable components whenever you need them.
One Pelican CMS with everything you need
There’s a reason so many developers are choosing a headless Pelican CMS. It’s easy to set up, offers flexible, customizable content modeling, and gives you access to our full Pelican API.
ButterCMS saves you development time
Most customers get our Pelican CMS up and running in less than an hour. Try it yourself!
Simple as can be, with powerful features and great customer support. DILLON BURNS, FRONT END DEVELOPER, KEYME
How to integrate ButterCMS into your Pelican application
Just follow the simple steps below to complete the integration and begin creating pages with Butter. Be sure to check out our full guide to creating pages using the ButterCMS API.
See our API reference for additional options such as filtering by category or author. The response also includes some metadata we'll use for pagination.
PLUGIN_PATHS = ["/path/to/plugins"]
PLUGINS = ["sitemap", "buttercms-pelican"]
Plus, add your butter API key to config:
BUTTER_CONFIG = {
'api_key': 'YourAPIKeyHere'
}
Then you can generate your content normally, then post from Butter will be generated like normal posts.
pelican content
That's it! If you browse to your homepage you'll see your homepage populated with the content you created in Butter.
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