Issue 78 - Why it's called Eleventy, 11ty Meetup 9/17, Speaking of CMS's, The ZeroPoint starter, Vento 2 has arrived, Performance debugging?, Components on the island...And 4 releases, 33 posts, and 13 sites to see

Sep 11, 2025

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Welcome to Issue 78 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:

I said these would be monthly, and here we are on Sep 11, as scheduled. But with the passage of more time between issues, awesome people have been busy cranking out a ton of new stuff, as you'll see in this issue.

If you want to skip the preliminaries and get right to the releases or the posts, or the sites, have at it.

Enjoy!

Why it's called Eleventy. Curious about the name? Here's the story, complete with hardcopy archival documentation. Grab a tissue.

11ty Meetup 9/17. Join us for episode 26 of the 11ty Meetup. Alex Hoyau will demo how Silex can be used to build 11ty sites visually. And Jessie with show us 11tyCMS, a "local, serverless, dependable" CMS for 11ty.

Speaking of CMS's. I recently discovered Sveltia CMS, "a Git-based lightweight headless CMS under active development as a modern, powerful drop-in replacement for Netlify CMS and Decap CMS." And, while a little dated, Dan Urbanowicz, created an 11ty starter with it.

The ZeroPoint starter. Michael Delaney showcases ZeroPoint, "A free, user-friendly static website generator starter project," supporting GitHub Pages and Netlify.

Vento 2 has arrived. Vento, "a modern, ergonomic, and async-friendly template engine for Javascript," has a new major release. Read about Vento 2 and its new features. And since some in this community have written about it, there's now a Vento category here on the bundle.

Performance debgugging? If you're wondering how long each of your pages are taking to render, Zach reminds us of the Directory Output — Eleventy feature that's built right into 11ty.

Components on the island. If you're looking for a way to "add interactive client-side components to your web site," look no further than <is-land>. And v5.0.0 has just been released.

Until next time...

Recent releases

is-land v5.0.0

A new performance-focused way to add interactive client-side components to your web site. - Release...

Aug 29, 2025

Eleventy WebC Plugin v0.12.0-beta.7

Adds support for WebC *.webc files to Eleventy. Contribute to 11ty/eleventy-plugin-webc development...

Aug 28, 2025

Eleventy Image v7.0.0-alpha.2

Utility to perform build-time image transformations. - Release Eleventy Image v7.0.0-alpha.2 ·...

Aug 27, 2025

WebC v0.12.0-beta.1

Single File Web Components. Contribute to 11ty/webc development by creating an account on GitHub.

Aug 22, 2025

Posts from around the web

Leveraging Eleventy’s custom data file format feature for simpler game scoring format

While building a website for our Pokémon TCG tournament series, I discovered a new handy tool within Eleventy to enable custom data formats.

Sep 10, 2025

by Juha-Matti Santala (20 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data How to...

Moving away from Nuxt to Eleventy

Discover why we are moving all of our statically generated websites from Nuxt to Eleventy, a faster and more reliable solution.

Sep 8, 2025

by pariskasid (1 post) · Website

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy Why Eleventy?

Migrating from Hugo to 11ty (Finally)

I finally moved my personal website from Hugo to 11ty after letting it sit dormant for months.

Sep 8, 2025

by Pedro Rocha (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Category and Tag Pages with Eleventy

Sep 7, 2025

by Josh Sherman (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Blogging Collections Configuration How to...Pagination

From Dotclear to Eleventy

How to migrate a blog from Dotclear on to eleventy

Sep 5, 2025

by Alix Guillard (2 posts) · Website

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Building a Multilingual Blog with Eleventy

My experience with making my English-Simplified Chinese bilingual personal blog with Eleventy and its official internalisation plugin.

Sep 5, 2025

by Helen Chong (6 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Blogging Configuration Deployment How to...Internationalization

From Start to Finish: Moving My Blog to Eleventy + GitHub Pages

A step-by-step guide on migrating my blog from using Weblog by OMGlol to Eleventy, hosted on GitHub Pages.

Sep 4, 2025

by Kyle Reddoch (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Configuration Deployment Getting Started How to...Migrating to Eleventy

Asset fingerprinting and the preload response header in 11ty

I’ll be building on my earlier post about CSS asset fingerprinting, this time adding the preload response header into the mix. Together, these techniques make sure your browser grabs my blog’s CSS right away, keeping things fast and seamless.

Sep 2, 2025

by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Asset Pipelines Configuration Deployment How to...Performance

Conditional favicon in Eleventy using passthrough copy

Never mix up dev and prod again! (due to identical icons, at least)

Sep 1, 2025

by Christopher Kirk-Nielsen (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Asset Pipelines Configuration How to...Images

An Eleventy Showcase!

This is a post featuring what you can do with Eleventy and Markdown!

Aug 30, 2025

by Jesus Otero Lagunes (1 post) · Website

Categories: Markdown Why Eleventy?

Eleventy pagination with Vento

Updating Eleventy from Nunjucks to Vento was mostly smooth sailing — except for pagination. Here’s how I eventually figured it out.

Aug 28, 2025

by Graham F. Scott (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: How to...Pagination Vento

Using Obsidian Callouts with 11ty

Hi! I'm Aninus, welcome to my website!

Aug 26, 2025

by Aninus Partikler (1 post) · Website

Categories: Blogging Configuration How to...Markdown Obsidian

OG Images using 11ty Screenshot Service

An easier approach to OG images (for me!)

Aug 23, 2025

by Jason Moser (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Filters How to...Images Pagination Social Media

After troubleshooting eleventy my blog roll was the cause of the long build times

Aug 22, 2025

by Clayton Errington (18 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Blogging Debugging How to...RSS Remote Data

Troubleshooting Eleventy Long Build Time

I notice my build times were getting longer but no real changes were made

Aug 22, 2025

by Clayton Errington (18 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Blogging Debugging How to...Performance

Ghost vs. Substack, Eleventy vs. WordPress: My Experiences

This month I began yet another web side-project: a weekly newsletter called Web Technology News on the Ghost platform. I currently have two other active websites: Cybercultural, my internet history site that I run via Eleventy and Cloudflare (and Buttondown for email delivery); and my personal website, ricmac.org, which has…

Aug 21, 2025

by Richard MacManus (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Automating my links list

How I automated my Instapaper “liked” articles into a clean, sorted JSON feed for my 11ty site — with date normalisation, HTML stripping, and deduplication, all running daily via GitHub Actions.

Aug 20, 2025

by Juan Fernandes (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Deployment How to...RSS Remote Data

11tyCMS: New home(s), build & publishing, with a side of collection indexing & bug fixes

Aug 19, 2025

by 11tyCMS (8 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: CMS

A Note from my Late Grandmother about Eleventy

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Aug 19, 2025

by Zach Leatherman (53 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: From the Source

What’s Next? Search Me

The long and the short of it: the blog finally has search functionality again, something it lost with the move to Eleventy back in March. This is not something I was sure would ever happen. I’d avoided the consistently recommended Pagefind because I didn’t like...

Aug 19, 2025

by Bix Frankonis (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: How to...Search