4 posts by Lea Verou
2023
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 Information in these posts may be out of date.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.
WordPress has been with me since my very first post in 2009. There is a lot to love about it: It’s open source, it has a thriving ecosystem, a beautiful default theme, and a revolutionary block editor that makes my inner UX geek giddy. Plus, WP made building a website and publishing content accessib
Jul 21, 2023
by Lea Verou (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
This is the third spinoff post in the migration saga of this blog from WordPress to 11ty. Migrating was a good opportunity to rethink the information architecture of my site, especially around categorization. Categories vs Tags Just like most WP users, I was using both categories and tags, simply be
Jul 20, 2023
by Lea Verou (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Collections
This is a second spinoff post in the migration saga of this blog from WordPress to 11ty. On good URLs It was important to me to have good, RESTful, usable, hackable URLs. While a lot of that is easy and comes for free, following this principle with Eleventy proved quite hard: URLs that are “hackable
Jul 19, 2023
by Lea Verou (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: PaginationCollectionsFiltersDates
So I recently ported my 14 year old blog from WordPress to Eleventy. I had been using Disqus for comments for years, so I didn’t want to lose them, even if I ended up using a different solution for the future (or no comments at all). Looking around for an existing solution did not yield many results
Jul 18, 2023
by Lea Verou (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to Eleventy