45 posts by John M. Wargo
2024
I run quite a few sites on Eleventy; you can see the complete list on this site's Sites area. The Eleventy team released version 3.0 a while back and I finally got around to upgrading some of the sites. This post describes the process I used to migrate a couple of the sites.
Dec 29, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationDebuggingPluginsUpgrading
Describes how I display Eleventy build information on this site and how I had to change the process for Eleventy 3.0.
Dec 29, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationHow to...
Nov 3, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CSS/SassHow to...Shortcodes
CAUTION
The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v3.0.0 (Oct 1, 2024). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 3.12.
Apr 6, 2024
Mar 24, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CollectionsData CascadeNavigation
Using Generative AI to automatically generate post descriptions is a great way to save time and ensure consistency across your site. By leveraging tools like ChatGPT, you can quickly create engaging summaries that entice readers to click through and read more. The Describer GenAI extension for Visua
Mar 18, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingFront MatterHow to...
Added an enhancement to my Eleventy New Post utility to support choosing the target folder during post creation.
Feb 6, 2024
I added a Posts per Month heatmap to the site's Statistics page today.
Jan 15, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Plugins
Jan 11, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationGlobal DataPlugins
Describes how to hide posts with a future publishing date in an Eleventy site.
Jan 10, 2024
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingConfigurationGlobal DataHow to...Plugins
2023
Describes an Eleventy plugin I created that enables a site to display a list of downloadable files.
Dec 27, 2023
An extension of the previous post that shows how to add a list of GitHub repositories to this site using authenticated access to the GitHub REST API.
Dec 23, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Remote Data
I made some enhancements to my Eleventy Post Statistics plugin this month and this post describes the changes.
Dec 23, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Plugins
I decided to add a list of GitHub repositories to this site; not because the site needs it, but because I wanted to learn how to do it. I built a quick and easy approach (with limitations) and this post describes how I did it.
Dec 22, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Remote Data
Nov 18, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CollectionsHow to...
I noticed recently that the site's stats page displayed the first and last post dates with time information even though the values only contained dates. I created a simple Eleventy Filter to trim them to date only with the format I wanted. This post shows how I did it.
Oct 31, 2023
Describes a solution I implemented in this site to add Category-specific header images to posts. I modified my eleventy-generate-category-pages module to generate additional properties for the header images and some shortcodes to add the image and attribution to the site's pages.
Aug 4, 2023
This post describes some new enhancements to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin.
Jul 15, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Plugins
This article describes a command-line utility I created to do batch add/update to YAML front matter of all of the markdown files in a folder. This is especially helpful when working with static site generators (SSG).
Jul 10, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Front MatterHow to...
Jul 9, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website
Categories: Debugging
I published an update to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin this morning and this article explains what changed.
Jul 7, 2023
Jul 7, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website
Categories: Debugging
How to add parameters to an Eleventy filter.
Jul 5, 2023
Jul 1, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...
I figured out how to get my Eleventy Generate Category Pages module working in an Eleventy build process.
Jun 13, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Pagination
After my announcement of my command-line utility for generating Eleventy Paginated Category pages, I learned how to do this inside of Eleventy and need some help finishing it for general use.
Jun 5, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: PaginationHow to...
Something I wanted to do with this site, but wasn't supported by Eleventy, is generate paginated pages of content for each category. This article explains how I solved this problem and how you can use it for your Eleventy site(s).
May 31, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: PaginationHow to...
Describes the process I used to migrate a 14 year old Joomla site (this one) to Eleventy and the tools I created to simplify the process (that you can use in your Joomla to Eleventy migrations).
May 30, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to Eleventy
I wanted to pull the most recent articles from an Eleventy site into another Eleventy site, so I wrote this article to explain how I did it.
May 29, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Remote Data
May 17, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website
Categories: Debugging
This article describes a Node command-line utility I created to generate batches of new posts in an Eleventy site.
May 16, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...
Describes a utility I created to automate creating a new post in an Eleventy site.
May 11, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...
I wanted to add a statistics page to this site, so I created an Eleventy plugin to do it. This article describes how to use the plugin in your Eleventy site.
May 10, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...
This article describes how I added HTML Keywords to an Eleventy site.
May 1, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationHow to...
I noticed that the category lists on this site had an extra space before and after the comma and set out to fix it.
Apr 30, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...
After adding Previous and Next buttons to paginated pages in this site, I figured out a clean way to add First and Last buttons as well and this post describes how I did it.
Apr 23, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: NavigationHow to...
Apr 16, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website
Categories: Debugging
Apr 3, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website
Categories: DebuggingDeployment
I added support for Algolia search to an Eleventy site, and this post describes a utility I created to help Eleventy site owners to automate updating their Algolia indices outside of the build process.
Mar 19, 2023
I leveraged some old code to add the ability to capture build details and save them with a project. In this post, I describe the utility I created that allows you to easily display build information in an Eleventy site.
Mar 15, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationHow to...
Mar 11, 2023
by John M. Wargo (45 posts) · Website
Categories: Debugging