Issue 26 - 2024 BOOM! Alpha-4 arrives...search this blog...a beautiful resume starter...And 1 release, 18 posts, and 8 sites to see.

Jan 8, 2024

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Welcome to Issue 26 of the 11ty Bundle. 11ty, aka Eleventy, is a "simpler static site generator" that is designed to be simple, flexible, and highly customizable. It is built on Node.js and allows developers to create websites by transforming templates and data into static HTML files. It supports multiple template languages, giving developers the freedom to choose the languages that best suit the needs of their project.

2024 is off to a booming start with 18 new posts since the last issue. We're closing in on 900 posts in the Bundle.

I've started using Inoreader as my feed reader and it has some features that make it a lot easier to scour my eleventy billion feeds to find new Eleventy-related content. It's not free, but I was able to take advantage of a year-end promo they had going to get the first year at a discount.

Zach has cranked out the alpha.4 release of Eleventy 3.0.

Last week, I added search (now on every page) search functionality to this blog along with Robb Knight's post-graph plugin to see the frequency of these posts. Like I did with my personal site, I used pagefind, an awesome plugin from Liam Bigelow at Cloud Cannon. If you've got a blog, you should consider adding search...especially if it has enough posts that require pagination. It's incredibly simple and lightweight. And you can find a bunch of posts right here on this site that show how others have done it.

I don't come across a lot of new starters. But last week, I found a really nice one for building a resume page. Here's the repo. Better yet, here's the demo and the post about it. The author, Gurpreet Singh also joins the list with his own site, now built with Eleventy.

Until next time...

Recent releases

Eleventy v3.0.0-alpha.4

A simpler site generator. Transforms a directory of templates (of varying types) into HTML. -...

Jan 2, 2024

Posts from around the web since the last Bundle issue

Adding Site Search to Eleventy with pagefind-search

Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.

Jan 7, 2024

by Chris McLeod (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: CSS/Sass How to...Plugins Search

Right here, right now

A brief explanation of the way I built the "Right now" box on my homepage.

Jan 7, 2024

by Martin Gunnarsson (9 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Collections Data Cascade Dates How to...Now Page

My Journey with 11ty and Tailwind CSS: Building a Personal Website

Jan 7, 2024

by Dipesh Kumar (1 post) · Website

Categories: CSS/Sass Why Eleventy?

My 11ty Plugins

A list of plugins that I have written for the eleventy static site generator.

Jan 5, 2024

by Simon Dann (11 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Blogging Plugins

Eleventy Resume Builder

Despite searching the internet, I couldn't find a quick starter for my online resume project, not even on the official 11ty start page. Consequently, I decided to invest some time in creating one and making it available as a starter project for a broader audience.

Jan 5, 2024

by Gurpreet Singh (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Getting Started How to...Why Eleventy?

Eleventy Photo Gallery

How I used JPEGs as templates in Eleventy to build a photo gallery

Jan 5, 2024

by Evan Sheehan (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Configuration How to...Images Layouts Image Galleries

A bit of a summary of the build of this site and how it works

Jan 5, 2024

by Tim Klapdor (1 post) · Website

Categories: Blogging Getting Started Plugins

Minifying and compressing text files to reduce load

I am continuing to catch up with the technical basics for a modern‐day website. This time I add minification and compression to my 11ty build and the Caddy configuration.

Jan 5, 2024

by Tobias Fedder (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Configuration How to...Performance

Deploy 11ty Site Using Rsync

Step-by-step guide for a deployment of your 11ty blog using rsync, npm deploy scripts and optimization for an efficient workflow.

Jan 4, 2024

by Moritz Giessmann (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Deployment How to...

I changed my mind, my CMS adventure

When I launched this site a few days ago I posted that I'd settled on Kirby as my CMS of choice. This wasn't exactly a spur of the moment thing, it's a system I've been dabbling with for quite a while.

Jan 4, 2024

by Steve Abraham (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: CMS Why Eleventy?