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**Author:** [@Liv](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Liv)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/about-the-showcase-category/53 "2025-03-05T11:00:00Z")
Built something cool? Share it here! Whether it’s a website, a custom integration, or a unique workflow using CloudCannon, this is the place to showcase your work. Tell us what you built, how you did it, and any lessons… --- ## [Custom Visual Editor tooling](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/custom-visual-editor-tooling/648)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Richardson](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Tom_Richardson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 16, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/custom-visual-editor-tooling/648 "2026-09-16T22:51:05Z")
Hi CloudCannon community, I recently built a couple of demos for a custom piece of tooling in CC’s visual editor, using the Visual Editor API. The objective was to add the ability to upload multiple images at once to a … --- ## [New site built with the Astro Component Starter](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/new-site-built-with-the-astro-component-starter/552)
**Author:** [@David](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/David)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 2, 2026, 9:59pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/new-site-built-with-the-astro-component-starter/552 "2026-06-02T21:59:46Z")
We thought NZ’s two-time Bird of the Year (2019, 2024), pictured below, deserved a website that loads faster than it takes a penguin to waddle up a beach. The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust’s old WordPress site took eleven s… --- ## [Vellum is Officially a Partner Contributed Template!](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/vellum-is-officially-a-partner-contributed-template/450)
**Author:** [@Gio](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Gio)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/vellum-is-officially-a-partner-contributed-template/450 "2026-03-13T22:07:43Z")
I am happy to announce that Vellum is now an official partner contributed template on CloudCannon! Thanks to the everyone at the CloudCannon team involved in making this happen, and their patience. For details and a dem… --- ## [Introducing CloudPack: A Next.js 15 + Bookshop Engine for High-Performance Marketing Sites](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/introducing-cloudpack-a-next-js-15-bookshop-engine-for-high-performance-marketing-sites/417)
**Author:** [@Yuri\_Evnin](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Yuri_Evnin)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/introducing-cloudpack-a-next-js-15-bookshop-engine-for-high-performance-marketing-sites/417 "2026-02-19T13:29:45Z")
Hi everyone, We’ve been building CloudPack — a high-performance, content-driven project engine for marketing sites, designed from the ground up for CloudCannon and static exports. After using it internally as our “proje… --- ## [Rendering links in Hugo projects using Cloudcannon’s Rich Text Editor](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/rendering-links-in-hugo-projects-using-cloudcannon-s-rich-text-editor/197)
**Author:** [@harrycresswell](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/harrycresswell)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [January 27, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/rendering-links-in-hugo-projects-using-cloudcannon-s-rich-text-editor/197 "2026-01-27T01:23:31Z")
Using Cloudcannon with Hugo? Struggling to render links in your content using Cloudcannon’s Rich Text Editor? You may find this post helpful. The problem is that Cloudcannon’s link option inserts HTML into markdown. How… --- ## [Veezer - General purpose Eleventy + CloudCannon template](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/veezer-general-purpose-eleventy-cloudcannon-template/380)
**Author:** [@Viv\_Barakat](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Viv_Barakat)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2026, 5:48am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/veezer-general-purpose-eleventy-cloudcannon-template/380 "2026-01-17T05:48:14Z")
Hi All, I’m sharing a template that I started quite some time ago as a starting point for my client sites. It uses Eleventy with liquid and Bookshop components. It wasn’t intended for others to dig into, as it’s always… --- ## [Building dynamic applications with static-first architecture](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/building-dynamic-applications-with-static-first-architecture/331)
**Author:** [@Tiaan\_Fairchild](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Tiaan_Fairchild)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 9, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/building-dynamic-applications-with-static-first-architecture/331 "2025-12-09T17:20:11Z")
Hi everyone, We recently published a write-up on a project we built for PaperCut’s Partner Portal using a static-first architecture — but with the dynamic capabilities you’d expect from a full-stack application. The si… --- ## [A Cloudcannon + Next.js starter](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/a-cloudcannon-next-js-starter/305)
**Author:** [@Lex](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Lex)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [November 16, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/a-cloudcannon-next-js-starter/305 "2025-11-16T06:36:15Z")
I’ve been using CloudCannon for 10+ years. Ever since the public beta days when I probably shouldn’t have been using it in production (but did anyway). Over the last five years I’ve moved away from Jekyll and mostly use … --- ## [Why choose CloudCannon over WordPress?](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/why-choose-cloudcannon-over-wordpress/241)
**Author:** [@Christopher\_Wingate](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Christopher_Wingate)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/why-choose-cloudcannon-over-wordpress/241 "2025-08-27T16:58:13Z")
Hey gang, we’ve been getting a lot of interest from customers wanting to migrate away from slow/costly WordPress sites and onto CC + a static site. I know many of our now 160+ partners (:tada:) are constantly working ou… --- ## [Vellum: A Simple Documentation Template](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/vellum-a-simple-documentation-template/281)
**Author:** [@Gio](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Gio)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/vellum-a-simple-documentation-template/281 "2025-08-27T13:01:40Z")
Hola everyone! I’m excited to share Vellum, a new documentation template I’ve been building over the last month. My goal was to create something powerful for developers but still simple enough for non-technical writers,… --- ## [New Partner case study](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/new-partner-case-study/240)
**Author:** [@David](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/David)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/new-partner-case-study/240 "2025-06-10T03:36:30Z")
We recently had a fascinating conversation with @Sindre\_Gusdal from Absoluttweb about his new workflow — he’s seeing much faster site setups and virtually no maintenance time with CloudCannon. It sounds like Sindre has … --- ## [CSS Based Low Quality Image Place Holders](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/css-based-low-quality-image-place-holders/225)
**Author:** [@Gio](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Gio)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/css-based-low-quality-image-place-holders/225 "2025-05-13T00:39:50Z")
I have implemented a CSS based low quality image placeholder (lqip) system. What I implemented comes from this extensive blog post breaking it all down. You can view a demo of it here: How it works The summary of how… --- ## [Image Carousel and Lightbox](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/image-carousel-and-lightbox/210)
**Author:** [@Gio](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Gio)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 5, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/image-carousel-and-lightbox/210 "2025-05-05T00:57:39Z")
I created my own image carousel and a generic lightbox component to go with it. So far only the image carousel is using this slider style lightbox, but I intend to use for future components. These are both bookshop compo… --- ## [Setting up Hugo menus in Cloudcannon](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/setting-up-hugo-menus-in-cloudcannon/220)
**Author:** [@harrycresswell](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/harrycresswell)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2025, 11:35am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/setting-up-hugo-menus-in-cloudcannon/220 "2025-04-28T11:35:47Z")
Thought I’d share my experiences making Hugo menus editable from within Cloudcannon. It took some trial and error to figure out the best approach, so hopefully this will save Hugo users from having to do the same. Wo… --- ## [Astro YouTube Series](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/astro-youtube-series/101)
**Author:** [@Tom\_Richardson](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Tom_Richardson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/astro-youtube-series/101 "2025-04-18T20:10:58Z")
Hi all! I’ll get the ball rolling here, feel free to show off anything you’re proud of here or think would be useful to others. I wanted to share my latest tutorial and video, building on my previous exploration of sett… --- ## [Custom Conditional Form Builder in CloudCannon](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/custom-conditional-form-builder-in-cloudcannon/184)
**Author:** [@Alysha\_Jo\_Nolan](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Alysha_Jo_Nolan)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2025, 9:02am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/custom-conditional-form-builder-in-cloudcannon/184 "2025-03-23T09:02:47Z")
I’ve built a conditional form builder inside :cloudcannon:, allowing editors to create dynamic forms with inputs that show/hide based on other selections—all without needing to code. You can check it out here: https://fu… --- ## [Site Stitcher: A scrappy but powerful website building tool](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/site-stitcher-a-scrappy-but-powerful-website-building-tool/145)
**Author:** [@Gio](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Gio)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/site-stitcher-a-scrappy-but-powerful-website-building-tool/145 "2025-03-20T01:22:37Z")
Site Stitcher: A scrappy, but powerful website template Sorry for how long this turned out to be… AI Generated TLDR at the bottom of the post. NOTE: This writeup assumes you are already familiar with 11ty at a basic lev…