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Zach Leatherman 82 posts

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2026

Eleventy, 2025 in Review

Eleventy, 2025 in Review — Eleventy

2025

Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition)

Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition) — Eleventy

Securely Publishing our Packages to npm

Securely Publishing our Packages to npm — Eleventy

How We Use GitHub Issues and How That’s Changing

How We Use GitHub Issues and How That’s Changing — Eleventy

Wrapper Elements around Code Blocks in Markdown

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How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why It’s So Fast) on Podcast Awesome

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A Note from my Late Grandmother about Eleventy

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One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60%

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Never write your own Date Parsing Library

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How to import() a Javascript string

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Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available — 11% faster and 22% smaller!

Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available — 11% faster and 22% smaller! — Eleventy

Check the speedometer on the brand new Blog Awesome (now with 11ty)

News and information from Font Awesome – the internet’s favorite icon set; mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.

11ty Meetup: Blog Awesome from WordPress to Eleventy

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Extract Colors from an Image for CSS Themes

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Start Your Escape from WordPress Using 11ty

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Optimize Your Web Site's Images

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Eleventy, 2024 in Review

Eleventy, 2024 in Review — Eleventy

2024

Eleventy (software) is now on Wikipedia

Eleventy (software) is now on Wikipedia — Eleventy

The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)—Web Unleashed 2024

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Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available!

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Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available

Eleventy v3.0.0 is now available! — Eleventy

11ty is joining Font Awesome

11ty is joining Font Awesome — Eleventy

Oddbird’s Winging It Live: Web Components

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Scheduled: Web Unleashed 2024: The Best And Worst Parts Of Eleventy (Now In v3)

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Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 now available

Eleventy v3.0.0-beta.1 now available — Eleventy

IMPROVED ERROR MESSAGING FOR REQUIRE(ESM) IN NODE.JS

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THE SMORGASBORD OF WINDOWS TERMINAL… WINDOWS

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11TY GOES FULLY INDEPENDENT—JS PARTY #325

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I NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE 11ty FULLY INDEPENDENT AND SUSTAINABLE in 2024

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THE FUTURE OF 11TY (2024)

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11ty Conference (2024) Break Slideshow: Personal Sites Montage

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AN ORGANIZER'S RETROSPECTIVE ON THE 11ty CONFERENCE

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Elevating Video Transcripts as Searchable Content

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Eight Million NPM Downloads!

Eight Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

EIGHT MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY

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Building an 11ty plugin to output the transcription of a YouTube Video - Zach and Mike

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LESSONS LEARNED MOVING ELEVENTY FROM COMMONJS TO ESM

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The Good, the Bad, the Web Components

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We're Running an 11ty Conference

We’re running an 11ty Conference! — Eleventy

2023

Building a multi-language Taylor Swift Fan Site with CloudCannon and Eleventy (Zach's version)

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ELEVENTY V3 WITH ESM SUPPORT NOW ON THE CANARY CHANNEL

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Calling All Courageous Canary Testers for Eleventy 3.0

Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0 — Eleventy

Let’s create a microblog with visual editing using Bookshop and Eleventy

Visual editing is table stakes for a modern content management workflow.

pagefind-search web component

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Live Editing an Eleventy Project in CloudCannon with Bookshop

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Static Feedback #11: All About Eleventy

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Static Feedback #11: All About Eleventy

Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy — Eleventy

The tension and future of JAMstack

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A new technique for image optimization: SVG short circuiting

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Automatically optimize your images with Eleventy Image and CloudCannon

Websites are becoming increasingly visual and we're adding more and more image content to our sites — but these images need to be optimized.

A NEW ELEVENTY MASCOT FROM DAVID NEAL!

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Seven Million npm Downloads

Seven Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

SEVEN MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY

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Big Announcement: Eleventy and CloudCannon

Eleventy and CloudCannon! — Eleventy

The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023)

The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023) — Eleventy

Six Million NPM Downloads!

Six Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

SIX MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY

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THE NEXT PHASE OF ELEVENTY: RETURN OF THE SIDE PROJECT

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How Stable is Eleventy? (YouTube)

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3 Methods for scoped styles in web components that work everywhere

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THE ELEVENTY V2.0 RELEASE, A TALK AT THE ELEVENTY MEETUP

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Rewriting the Eleventy Home Page in WebC

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Five Million npm Downloads

Five Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

FIVE MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY

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2022

The WebC Episode with a Bonus Server-Rendered Image Comparison Component on Eleventy

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FOUR MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY

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Interactive Progressively-enhanced Web Components with WebC

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Crash Course in Eleventy's new WebC Plugin

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Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. Edge

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Eleventy Build went from 54s to 17s—Memory/Performance Wins

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THREE MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY

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The new Eleventy Vite Plugin

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2021

Mix and match template syntax in Eleventy using the render plugin

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Every fire needs a sparkline

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TWO MILLION NPM DOWNLOADS FOR ELEVENTY

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Don't shut down your business! Instead use Eleventy Image

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Debug Mode

Debug Mode — Eleventy

Trigger a Netlify build every day with IFTTT

Quick Tip: Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day — Eleventy

2020

Eleventy and Vue, a match made to power Netlify.com

Learn more about the new Netlify.com site tech stack. We’ve combined Eleventy and Vue, and throughout this article Zach Leatherman explains the details behind the setup.

Eleventy's New Performance Leaderboard

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Let’s Learn Eleventy!

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2018

Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy

Filament Group helps companies design and build super-fast responsive sites and web apps that are simple to use and accessible to everyone

Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v3.0.0 (October 1, 2024). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12
Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v2.0.0 (Feb 8, 2023). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.
Some content below may have been published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 8, 2022). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.
All of the content below was published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 8, 2022). Information may have changed in newer versions. Current stable release: 3.12.