A New Way to Build Content Sites
We're excited to announce Content Mode — a major new capability in Hammer for Mac that lets you generate entire sections of your site from structured content files.
If you've ever built a blog, documentation site, or portfolio, you know the pain of duplicating HTML across dozens of pages. Content Mode eliminates that entirely. Write your content in Markdown, define a template once, and Hammer generates every page for you at build time.
How It Works
The setup is straightforward:
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Define a collection in
content.config.json— specify your fields, template, and output paths - Write content in Markdown files with YAML front matter
- Build your template using Hammer's expression syntax to place dynamic content
- Hit Build — Hammer generates a page for every content file
Built for Real Workflows
Content Mode isn't a bolt-on feature. It's deeply integrated with everything you already know in Hammer:
- Templates use all standard Hammer tags — includes, variables, clever paths
- Content files support relations between collections
- Helper functions for date formatting, slugification, and more
- Incremental builds keep things fast as your content grows
Content Mode is perfect for blogs, documentation, portfolios, product catalogs, team directories — anything with repeating structure.
Get Started
Content Mode is available now in Hammer for Mac. Check out the full documentation to start building your first content collection.
