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2026

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Deconstructing these auto-generated OG images

A walk through the build-time plugin that gives every blog post here its own social-share image.

Bob Monsour (26)

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Charting New Territory

Announcing Uncharted, an Eleventy plugin for generating charts from CSVs

Sean Lunsford (1)

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Serving Markdown to LLMs with Eleventy

A technical walkthrough on how to serve a Markdown version of all pages with Eleventy.

Kitty Giraudel (16)

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Adding Baseline Status to My Eleventy Site

How to integrate the baseline-status web component into Eleventy (Build Awesome) with per-page opt-in loading, Nunjucks shortcodes, and self-hosted scripts. Learn why Baseline provides clearer browser support signals than Can I Use for modern web features.

Stuart Robson (1)

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Stats Page with Eleventy

A short technical write-up about aggregating blogging stats and displaying them on a page with Eleventy.

Kitty Giraudel (16)

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Tag Pages with Eleventy

A short technical write-up about the introduction of tag pages on this blog.

Kitty Giraudel (16)

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Eleventy: Autopopulating the title variable from the template

This is the blog of Lea Rosema, frontend developer with accessibility focus, based in Hamburg

Lea Rosema (7)

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auld lang syne: The Commonplace (micro)Log

A simple gratitude journal online, with media tracking and Beeminder integration. Yes, yet another 11ty project technical write-up, but I promise you'll learn something.

Brennan Kenneth Brown (13)

2025

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Migrating from WordPress to 11ty (Eleventy)

This site was migrated from WordPress to 11ty (Eleventy). Here's how I did it, including how to import and convert WordPress content that relies heavily...

Alfred Reinold Baudisch (1)

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Updated My Draft System

How I've updated the drafts on my website with 11ty

Clayton Errington (20)

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Eleventy plugin recs, part 1

Renkon's personal site and blog.

Renkon (3)

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How to import() a Javascript string

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Zach Leatherman (88)

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blog - obsidian templates and use

about the templates i use in obsidian to create drafts and posts

actuallysomecat (4)

Presenting an episode on your site

Documentation website for eleventy-plugin-podcaster.

Nathan Bottomley (4)

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Building a Quiz System With Eleventy

Remember when internet quizzes were a thing? I wanted to bring them to my website.

Nathan Upchurch (4)

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Visual Studio Code Snippet for Markdown Frontmatter

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

Chris McLeod (7)

2024

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Adding Cooklang Support to Eleventy Three Ways

How I added my recipes to my blog posts with cooklang and the recipe schema

Robb Knight (20)

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Open Graph Metadata and Images in Eleventy Made Easy

Blog posts are meant to be shared. When sharing links, you’ll often see a preview on social media and instant messengers. But how does it work and how can you do it with Eleventy?

Sebin Nyshkim (3)

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Private Notes in Eleventy

Private Notes in Eleventy

Sam Feldstein (2)

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It turns out a CMS can be pretty awesome

Having a CMS to update your site can be awesome. It's not strictly necessary and mine is entirely over-engineered but here we are. It's helpful on mobile, it's been incredibly useful on desktop.

Cory Dransfeldt (46)

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Hello World (from 11ty)!

Ah shit, here we go again dot gif

Nic Lake (1)

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Virtual Templates in Eleventy

In Eleventy 3.0, virtual templates enable plugin authors to publish and share dynamic templates.

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (14)

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Dynamic Content Includes

In this post, I explain how I solved two issues at the same time by introducing a feature to my post layout that I’m calling pre and post includes.

Chris Burnell (8)

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A custom collection to sort events with Eleventy

I made a custom collection with a filter to sort events by their custom date data.

Sami Määttä (6)

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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 Visua

John M. Wargo (47)

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My Eleventy site setup

post collections, data files, other messiness.

anh (3)

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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 (2)

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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 (11)

2023

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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 (7)

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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 (2)

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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 (1)

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Fun With Front Matter: Part 4 - Featured Posts

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

Raymond Camden (105)

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Fun With Front Matter: Part 3 - Handling Edits

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

Raymond Camden (105)

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Fun With Front Matter: Part 2 - Follow-ups

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

Raymond Camden (105)

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Fun With Frontmatter: Part 1 - Related Posts

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

Raymond Camden (105)

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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 (47)

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Using Rmarkdown with Eleventy

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

Michael Schmidt (2)

2022

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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 (2)

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Creating a now page archive with 11ty

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

Simon Dann (11)

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Build a Blog With 11ty: Base - Part 2

We are going to be go through the first steps to get up and running with 11ty. Building a 11ty site from scratch will help you keep your site lightweight, scalable and easy to manage.

Jeremy Faucher (8)

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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 (14)

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My complete blogging workflow

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

Michael Harley (14)

2021

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Creating a (Manual) Related Posts Feature in Eleventy

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

Raymond Camden (105)

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Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog - Follow-Up

An udate to my earlier Eleventy demo showing how to handle multiple authors

Raymond Camden (105)

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Page Level URL Fetching with Eleventy

Making a network request on a page with Eleventy

Raymond Camden (105)

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Applying frontmatter defaults to a whole folder of posts in eleventy

Using JSON data files to apply defaults

Al Power (9)

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Dynamic Short URLs with Eleventy

Creating URL aliases dynamically with Eleventy

Raymond Camden (105)

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Building a Choose Your Own Adventure site with Eleventy

How I built a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style site with Eleventy

Raymond Camden (105)

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Adding an Email Subscription to Your Jamstack Site

Using MailChimp to provide a list service for new posts on your blog

Raymond Camden (105)

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Accessing Eleventy Data on the Client Side

Accessing Eleventy data files in your JavaScript code

Raymond Camden (105)

2020

Composing data in Eleventy

The ramblings of Ryan Boone, a web developer and designer from Texas with a passion for open, accessible front end development.

Ryan Boone (3)

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Eleventy: RSS Feeds and Front Matter Data

Getting front matter data into my Nunjucks RSS feed templates.

Mark Llobrera (8)

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Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog

How to handle multiple authors in Eleventy, with custom author profile pages.

Raymond Camden (105)

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Hiding Future Content with Eleventy

How to use custom filters and collections to hide Eleventy content for the future.

Raymond Camden (105)

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.