35 posts in 'Front Matter'

Generating Eleventy Post Descriptions Using Generative AI

Using Generative AI to automatically generate post descriptions is a great way to save time and ensure consistency across your site. By leveraging tools like ChatGPT, you can quickly create engaging summaries that entice readers to click through and read more. The Describer GenAI extension for Visual Studio Code simplifies this process, allowing you to effortlessly generate descriptions for your articles with just a few clicks. With the ability to customize settings and easily integrate the generated descriptions into your site, this tool is a valuable asset for content creators looking to streamline their workflow.

John M. Wargo · Mar 18, 2024

Categories: Blogging Front Matter How to...

My Eleventy site setup

anh · Mar 3, 2024

Categories: Blogging Collections Front Matter Getting Started Global Data Shortcodes

A roundup of recent updates to my website

Where i describe the recent updates to the kinds of content you'll find on my website

Grigør · Feb 27, 2024

Categories: Blogging Collections Front Matter RSS Social Media

How to automatically generate a new boilerplate-post with inquirer

This article is about: How I automated the creation of the boilerplate with frontmatter

David Moll · Jan 15, 2024

Categories: Blogging Front Matter How to...

Frontmatter Templates for New Blog Posts

In VS Code, using Snippets

Cassey Lottman · Jan 13, 2024

Categories: Blogging Front Matter

A Simple Guide to Redirects on Neocities with Eleventy

We need more tutorials for using Eleventy outside of Netlify. Lets take a look at setting up redirects on Neocities with Eleventy.

fLaMEd · Jan 12, 2024

Categories: Configuration Deployment Front Matter How to...Pagination

Detecting Markdown titles with Eleventy

Lewis Dale · Jan 10, 2024

Categories: Front Matter How to...Markdown

How to setup Agit CMS with your 11ty website

The hackable, local, markdown based CMS for the developer that doesn't want content management to be a whole thing.

Ginger · Nov 2, 2023

Categories: CMS Front Matter How to...

Making a simple Eleventy blog template

If you’ve worked with TypeScript, React or Next odds are you’ve encountered an update that broke a... Tagged with frontend, css, html, tutorial.

Tomek Poniatowicz · Oct 3, 2023

Categories: Blogging Collections Front Matter How to...Layouts

Excerpts for Eleventy: My Implementation

Converting my relatively basic personal website to Eleventy has shown me how challenging it is to build a static-site generator flexible...

Keith Carangelo · Oct 2, 2023

Categories: Blogging How to...Front Matter Markdown

Fun With Front Matter: Part 4 - Featured Posts

How to use "featured" posts to highlight important content.

Raymond Camden · Sep 12, 2023

Categories: Front Matter How to...

Fun With Front Matter: Part 3 - Handling Edits

Another example of front matter - signifying edits (both when and why)

Raymond Camden · Aug 31, 2023

Categories: How to...Front Matter

Fun With Front Matter: Part 2 - Follow-ups

Using front matter to specify a follow up to your content.

Raymond Camden · Aug 29, 2023

Categories: Front Matter How to...

A series on doing more with your Jamstack site's front matter

Raymond Camden · Aug 28, 2023

Categories: Front Matter Filters How to...

Batching YAML Front Matter Updates

This article describes a command-line utility I created to do batch add/update to YAML front matter of all of the markdown files in a folder. This is especially helpful when working with static site generators (SSG).

John M. Wargo · Jul 10, 2023

Categories: Front Matter How to...

Using Rmarkdown with Eleventy

My work, notes, musings and more. Some serious, some not.

Michael Schmidt · Feb 9, 2023

Categories: Configuration Front Matter How to...Markdown

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 2.0.1. Eleventy v3.0 is currently under development and available for testing.

Filter an Eleventy Collection Using Your Own Custom Front Matter

Dan Urbanoicz · Oct 17, 2022

Categories: Front Matter How to...Filters Collections

Processing images linked from frontmatter with eleventy-img to use in meta tags

Engineering Management, SQL, and a dash of front-end from NYC.

TJ Addison · Aug 31, 2022

Categories: Front Matter Images How to...

Creating a now page archive with 11ty

Blog and general digital garden of the full stack programmer Simon Dann.

Simon Dann · May 17, 2022

Categories: Collections Front Matter How to...Layouts Navigation Now Page

Automating some of the publishing steps for my Eleventy blog

Heres how I automated some of the tedious steps of publishing new posts on my Eleventy blog.

Michael Harley · Feb 21, 2022

Categories: Blogging Front Matter How to...

My complete blogging workflow

Here is my complete blogging workflow from how I manage ideas all the way to publishing and sharing.

Michael Harley · Jan 29, 2022

Categories: Blogging How to...Images Front Matter

Formatting Frontmatter in Eleventy

I like how Odyssey Dao highlights some parts of its titles. If I were writing standard html, I would replicate the effect adding a span with a class to create a style in CSS. However, in eleventy the front matter is parsed as text. In other words...

Lucheto · Jan 12, 2022

Categories: Front Matter How to...

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 2.0.1. Eleventy v3.0 is currently under development and available for testing.

How to handle post relations in Eleventy in a manual fashion.

Raymond Camden · Sep 24, 2021

Categories: How to...Front Matter