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Issue 76 - Veronica Explains, Eleventy Meetup July 23rd, An emerging CMS, Not using Wordpress, Switching to WebC, Performance gains, This title is too long...And 9 releases, 23 posts, and 25 sites to see

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Welcome to Issue 76 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.

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A note from Bob:

Oh boy, what a few weeks it's been. Life issues are settling down and I'm back with this HUGE issue of 11ty posts, releases, and sites to see. I've missed doing this.

These 11ty Bundle blog posts and newsletter will now be published monthly, rather than the every-other-week schedule I was on. I've just got too much on my plate right now to do it every two weeks.

Enjoy!


Veronica Explains. In this video, Veronica explains why she likes static sites, and in particular, Eleventy. It's a great watch and she does a fantastic job explaining the benefits of static sites.

Eleventy Meetup July 23rd. Kaj Kandler talks about adding structured data to his personal website, and Michael Delaney shows how to deploy 11ty automatically. Event details here. I'll be there too.

An emerging CMS. Thinkymeat has been cranking away since April on a CMS targeted for use with Eleventy. It's called 11tyCMS. Here are the blog posts she's written about it so far:

And, of course, you can also find these on their author page on this site.

Not using Wordpress. Ryan Gittings did a really nice write up on why he doesn't use Wordpress...and why he does use Eleventy.

Switching to WebC. Harris Lapiroff has a couple of posts about switching to WebC and some of the quirks he has run into.

Performance gains. The guys over at Etch describe how they achieved a 24% performance improvement when they migrated their site to Eleventy. Read about it here.

This title is too long. BUT...there were several other things that I felt were worthy of coverage. Here they are:

One more thing...

Sticker price reduction. The 11ty Bundle stickers are still available! Designed by Andy Carolan, it's 4" x 2" with a matte-finish. They're $5 now only $3 each. Tax & shipping are included in the price. Shipping them to anywhere in the world seems to be working. They've made it to the UK and Portugal so far, as well as both the east and west coasts of the US. Get 'em while they're hot! If you order this week, I will be shipping them out next week.

The new 11ty Bundle OG image

Until next time...


Recent releases

Eleventy RSS v3.0.0-alpha.2

A pack of Eleventy plugins for generating an RSS feed. - Release Eleventy RSS v3.0.0-alpha.2 ·...

Eleventy RSS v3.0.0-alpha.1

A pack of Eleventy plugins for generating an RSS feed. - Release Eleventy RSS v3.0.0-alpha.1 ·...

Eleventy Image v7.0.0-alpha.1

Utility to perform build-time image transformations. - Release Eleventy Image v7.0.0-alpha.1 ·...

Eleventy Plugin Vite v7.0.0

A plugin to use Vite with Eleventy. Contribute to 11ty/eleventy-plugin-vite development by creating...

Eleventy v3.1.2 (we fixed 15 more things)

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

Eleventy v3.1.2-beta.4

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

Eleventy v3.1.2-beta.3

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

Eleventy v3.1.2-beta.2

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

Eleventy v3.1.2-beta.1

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Data vs. Collections in Eleventy

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Building a digital bookshelf with Eleventy

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How choosing the right tool for the job led to faster load times and fewer dependencies.

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Migrating WordPress To Eleventy

Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.

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Random page feature for a static site with Eleventy

To celebrate International RNG Day, I built a page that redirects you to a random blog post on my site.

Jul 11, 2025

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Proper Sitemap Update Dates for Eleventy

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Jul 10, 2025

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Creating a website from Obsidian

I created a couple of websites from an Obsidian vault using the Digital Garden plugin.

Jul 7, 2025

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Marking blog posts as drafts in 11ty

I had a look at enabling drafts for this site again, and it turned out that, in current versions, it is very easy to do.

Jul 6, 2025

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Website updates

Logging some updates I’ve made to my 11ty-powered website

Jul 6, 2025

Categories: BloggingCMSDeploymentNetlifyPluginsRSS

German living in Finland's north-west. Making money by programming remotely. Loves to write notes.

Jul 6, 2025

Categories: BloggingHow to...ObsidianPermalinks

Generating LLMs.txt Using Eleventy

Large Language Models are increasingly relying on information found on the web, but often struggle to handle most websites in their entirety because the context windows are too small. In an...

Jul 3, 2025

Categories: BloggingConfigurationHow to...MarkdownNetlify

Uploading Images For Your Eleventy Blog to Cloudflare R2 from Obsidian

German living in Finland's north-west. Making money by programming remotely. Loves to write notes.

Jun 28, 2025

Categories: How to...ImagesObsidian

Why I Don't Use Wordpress

I don't use WordPress. Instead, I build faster, simpler, more reliable websites with Jamstack tools like 11ty, Pages CMS and Netlify — and here's why.

Jun 27, 2025

Categories: BloggingCMSDeploymentNetlifyPerformanceWhy Eleventy?

Creating proportional, equal-height image rows with CSS, 11ty, and Nunjucks

How I built an aspect-ratio-respecting image row component and Nunjucks shortcode.

Jun 15, 2025

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...ImagesNunjucks/MacrosShortcodes

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Here are the new sites to see. If you want to see more sites, check out the Eleventy Leaderboards.

Jordan Johnson

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Particle Slam

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vianatrilhos

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End on End

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Test Automation

Start your journey to becoming a test automation expert. Choose your path and learn in-demand skills...

Marcello's Place

Deliciously Simple Cooking for Busy Families

TerabyteTiger

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joshua.seigler.net

Software engineer personal homepage

UNBREAKING

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Logic is the personal website of Laurence Hughes, a web developer based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Web Awesome

Build better with Web Awesome, the open source library of web components from Font Awesome.

Ethan Marcotte

I’m Ethan Marcotte. I’m a web designer, writer, and speaker. This is my website; I’m real glad...

Ceci Li

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Gemma Evans

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UI development studio of Kevin Pennekamp, a Dutch web craftsman, front-end engineer and engineering...

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