13 posts by Mike Street
Take your 11ty build from 1 second to 2 minutes by generating OG images
I tried to generate OG images during build and it ended up taking a long time
Feb 16, 2023
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Social MediaImages
CAUTION
The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v2.0.0 (Feb 8, 2023). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 3.01.
Adding Tina CMS to 11ty
Looking for a NetlifyCMS alternative to commit changes to the same repo, I stumbled upon TinaCMS
Jan 14, 2023
Add Netlify CMS to an existing 11ty site
Learn to add Netlify CMS to an existing 11ty site to make editing your posts easier
Jul 29, 2022
CAUTION
The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 9, 2022). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 3.01.
Making an 11ty collection from a remote XML file
RSS is XML with a specification, however not all RSS feeds follow the spec. In this post, we process the feed as an XML document meaning we can access the extra attributes and values
Jul 26, 2021
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CollectionsHow to...Remote Data
Create an 11ty collection from any RSS feed
Using 11ty global data files, we create an 11ty collection from an RSS feed. As an example, we show the latest YouTube videos on our website
Jul 12, 2021
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Remote DataCollectionsHow to...RSS
Creating an 11ty collection from a JSON API
Using 11ty Global data files, you can make collections from JSON APIs, allowing you to make whole websites from one endpoint
Jun 28, 2021
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CollectionsHow to...Global Data
Building Ale House Rock with 11ty
I rebuilt my beer review website using a JSON API and 11ty. This is a rundown of how I tackled it
May 31, 2021
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Collections
Accessing 11ty filters within data files to keep your code DRY
11ty filters can exist as JS functions inside the declared filters directory - these can be accessed by other files not processed by 11ty
May 17, 2021
Get your Eleventy Site into the real world using a hosting provider like Netlify or Git pages
There are plenty of ways to get your 11ty site live depending on preferences and skill set, this blog walks through a few of the popular ones including Gitlab pages, Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare pages
Apr 19, 2021
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: DeploymentHow to...
Build an 11ty calendar to list all your posts
List all of your posts (or other collection items) in a calendar/diary format to give a timeline of your past
Apr 12, 2021
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CollectionsHow to...
Using Cloudflare workers to publish your scheduled 11ty posts
Learn how to schedule blog posts and other items to go live with your static site generator without having to rebuild the whole site. Get all the benefits of a dynamic CSS with static files
Apr 5, 2021
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Deployment
Converting Behind the Source to 11ty
I spent the week converting Behind the Source from Craft to Eleventy (a static site generator). Will I use it again?
Oct 7, 2020
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to Eleventy
Setting up Homebrew, NPM and Eleventy on a fresh mac
Walking through setting up Homebrew on your Mac, so you can install NPM and Eleventy.
Oct 5, 2020
by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: ConfigurationHow to...