Blog – Craft CMS Native Twig

A clean, fully server-rendered blog built with Craft CMS’s native features — no JavaScript, no reactivity layer, no client-side magic. Just pure Craft.

The Native Blog demonstrates how far you can get with Craft’s built-in tools alone. Category filtering is handled via standard query parameters, while pagination uses Craft’s elegant /pX URL routing — making every result page fully crawlable and SEO-friendly by default.

Because everything is rendered on the server, the output is stable, predictable, and extremely cache-friendly. Each request generates a complete, accessible HTML page that search engines can index without any client-side dependencies.

This setup is perfect for developers who prefer simplicity, reliability, and maximum compatibility. No Alpine, no Vue, no Datastar — just solid Craft CMS templates using paginate, entries(), and traditional query strings.

In short: a fast, SEO-perfect, JavaScript-free blog — powered entirely by native Craft CMS.

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