42 posts by John M. Wargo
Added Timestamp to My Eleventy New Post Utility
John M. Wargo · Apr 6, 2024
Eleventy Navigation Set URL to First Item in Collection
John M. Wargo · Mar 24, 2024
Categories: CollectionsData CascadeNavigation
Generating Eleventy Post Descriptions Using Generative AI
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 Visual Studio Code simplifies this process, allowing you to effortlessly generate descriptions for your articles with just a few clicks. With the ability to customize settings and easily integrate the generated descriptions into your site, this tool is a valuable asset for content creators looking to streamline their workflow.
John M. Wargo · Mar 18, 2024
Categories: BloggingFront MatterHow to...
Added Folder Selection to My New Post Utility
Added an enhancement to my Eleventy New Post utility to support choosing the target folder during post creation.
John M. Wargo · Feb 6, 2024
Added Monthly Posts Heatmap To The Site
I added a Posts per Month heatmap to the site's Statistics page today.
John M. Wargo · Jan 15, 2024
Categories: Plugins
Updated Eleventy Future Post Plugin
John M. Wargo · Jan 11, 2024
Categories: ConfigurationGlobal DataPlugins
Hiding Future Posts in Eleventy
Describes how to hide posts with a future publishing date in an Eleventy site.
John M. Wargo · Jan 10, 2024
Categories: BloggingConfigurationGlobal DataHow to...Plugins
Eleventy File List Plugin
Describes an Eleventy plugin I created that enables a site to display a list of downloadable files.
John M. Wargo · Dec 27, 2023
Adding a GitHub Repository List to an Eleventy Site (part 2)
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.
John M. Wargo · Dec 23, 2023
Categories: How to...Remote Data
December Updates to Eleventy Plugin Stats
I made some enhancements to my Eleventy Post Statistics plugin this month and this post describes the changes.
John M. Wargo · Dec 23, 2023
Categories: Plugins
Adding a GitHub Repository List to an Eleventy Site
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.
John M. Wargo · Dec 22, 2023
Categories: How to...Remote Data
Eleventy Splitting Category Data Across Two Table Columns
John M. Wargo · Nov 18, 2023
Categories: CollectionsHow to...
Eleventy Date-only Filter
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.
John M. Wargo · Oct 31, 2023
Eleventy Category Images
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.
John M. Wargo · Aug 4, 2023
Added Content Stats to Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics
This post describes some new enhancements to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin.
John M. Wargo · Jul 15, 2023
Categories: Plugins
Batching YAML Front Matter Updates
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).
John M. Wargo · Jul 10, 2023
Categories: Front MatterHow to...
Updated Eleventy Post Stats Plugin
I published an update to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin this morning and this article explains what changed.
John M. Wargo · Jul 7, 2023
Fixed Category Page Generation
I figured out how to get my Eleventy Generate Category Pages module working in an Eleventy build process.
John M. Wargo · Jun 13, 2023
Categories: Pagination
Generating Eleventy Category Pages Inside Eleventy Build
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.
John M. Wargo · Jun 5, 2023
Categories: PaginationHow to...
Eleventy Paginated Category Pages
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).
John M. Wargo · May 31, 2023
Categories: PaginationHow to...
Migrating This Site from Joomla To Eleventy
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).
John M. Wargo · May 30, 2023
Categories: Migrating to Eleventy
Eleventy Displaying Posts from Another Site
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.
John M. Wargo · May 29, 2023
Categories: How to...Remote Data
Generating Post Batches in Eleventy
This article describes a Node command-line utility I created to generate batches of new posts in an Eleventy site.
John M. Wargo · May 16, 2023
Categories: How to...
Automating Eleventy Post Creation
Describes a utility I created to automate creating a new post in an Eleventy site.
John M. Wargo · May 11, 2023
Categories: How to...
Eleventy Site Statistics
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.
John M. Wargo · May 10, 2023
Categories: How to...
Meta Description and Keywords in Eleventy
This article describes how I added HTML Keywords to an Eleventy site.
John M. Wargo · May 1, 2023
Categories: ConfigurationHow to...
Eleventy Extra Spaces in Category List
I noticed that the category lists on this site had an extra space before and after the comma and set out to fix it.
John M. Wargo · Apr 30, 2023
Categories: How to...
Eleventy Enhanced Pagination Navigation Buttons
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.
John M. Wargo · Apr 23, 2023
Categories: NavigationHow to...
Automating Algolia Index Updates
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.
John M. Wargo · Mar 19, 2023
Displaying Build Details in an Eleventy Site
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.
John M. Wargo · Mar 15, 2023
Categories: ConfigurationHow to...