51 posts in 'Global Data'

My links page is powered by the Readwise Reader API but because there are, quite reasonably, rate limits in place, I've gone ahead and reduced the page count I fetch on each build and cached older link data from past builds in a B2 bucket.

Feb 19, 2024

by Cory Dransfeldt (34 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data How to...Remote Data

How to connect Eleventy and Storyblok

This is a step-by-step tutorial on how to query data from Storyblok to use it in an Eleventy project.

Feb 8, 2024

by Estela Franco (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: CMS Configuration Global Data How to...

Eleventy - Fetch data from the Github REST API to populate a projects page

We will populate a page with data from GitHub. We will use the eleventy-fetch plugin to do this with minimal code and refresh the data every 2 days.

Feb 7, 2024

by Rob O'Leary (9 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Filters Global Data Layouts Remote Data

Community websites with Eleventy

With Eleventy’s data files, I’ve come up with a good setup to build landing pages for communities that organize events.

Jan 24, 2024

by Juha-Matti Santala (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Filters Global Data How to...

Eleventy - Create a global production flag

A production flag enables you to run activites in production only e.g. minifying assets. There isn't a built-in flag in eleventy. How can we add one?

Jan 24, 2024

by Rob O'Leary (9 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Configuration Global Data How to...Layouts

Learning New Tricks

Jan 21, 2024

by Antonio Rodrigues (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data

Fetching Package Dependents from GitHub

Using linkedom to grab all repositories that are depending on my post graph plugin

Jan 16, 2024

by Robb Knight (18 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data How to...Plugins

Adding webmentions to my site

I had told myself that I wouldn't do this...but, seeing them on other people's sites changed my mind.

Jan 13, 2024

by Bob Monsour (10 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Filters Global Data How to...Social Media Webmentions

Updated Eleventy Future Post Plugin

Jan 11, 2024

by John M. Wargo (42 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Configuration Global Data Plugins

Hiding Future Posts in Eleventy

Describes how to hide posts with a future publishing date in an Eleventy site.

Jan 10, 2024

by John M. Wargo (42 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Blogging Configuration Global Data How to...Plugins

Programmatically importing your Last.fm listening data to ListenBrainz

I love Last.fm, but in the interest of redundancy, Ive started programmatically importing my listening data from Last.fm into ListenBrainz.

Dec 5, 2023

by Cory Dransfeldt (34 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data How to...Remote Data

Using Wordpress as a headless CMS for Eleventy

How I avoided having to re-learn PHP and love Eleventy.

Nov 7, 2023

by Mike Aparicio (4 posts) · Website

Categories: CMS Global Data Navigation Pagination Remote Data Search

Integrating WordPress Posts with 11ty

Nov 2, 2023

by Kevin Gimbel (1 post) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Blogging CMS Global Data Remote Data

Scratch that...use the Google Sheets API

Just generating a json file from Google Sheets was not good enough. I had to use the API.

Oct 30, 2023

by Bob Monsour (10 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data Netlify Remote Data

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.

11ty Second 11ty: Global Data files (JS and JSON)

In these two videos, we take 110 seconds each to discuss how to use 11ty's Global Data files to pull static data with JSON and dynamic (at build time) data with JavaScript.

Aug 8, 2022

by Bryan Robinson (15 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data How to...

Reading Comic Books in the Jamstack

Adding support for digital comic books to your Jamstack site

Jul 1, 2022

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data How to...Images

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.

Dynamically choosing a data file to use in Eleventy templates

What if I need _data/stuff.json sometimes and _data/thing.json other times?

Nov 17, 2021

by Cassey Lottman (10 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data

Configuring Web Fonts in 11ty with Global Data

Rather than using static font-face declarations for web fonts, you can take advantage of global data in 11ty to create a single source of truth for fonts and reuse those values in your templates and CSS.

Nov 14, 2021

by Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (12 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data How to...

Eleventy 1.0 - Global Data via Plugins Example

A followup on my post concerning Eleventy's new addGloblData feature

Nov 7, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data Plugins

Eleventy 1.0 - New Option for Global Data

A look at a new way to create global data for Eleventy 1.0 sites.

Nov 2, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data

Media Diary with Eleventy

Sep 21, 2021

by anh (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data Layouts

Using PDFs with the Jamstack - Building a Document Viewer

Using Adobe PDF Services to build a document viewer for your Jamstack site

Aug 30, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: How to...Global Data

An Adobe PDF Embed Plugin for Eleventy

Eleventy users can now add a PDF Embed plugin to their sites

Aug 2, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: How to...Global Data Configuration Plugins

Page Level URL Fetching with Eleventy

Making a network request on a page with Eleventy

Jul 30, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: How to...Remote Data Front Matter Global Data

Generate Page Content From a Global Data File Using Eleventy

There are many great features to choose from when building websites with Eleventy. One feature in particular that I find very useful is the ability to iterate over a global data file and generate page content using a templating language of your choice.

Jul 29, 2021

by Tanner Dolby (2 posts) · Website

Categories: Global Data

Creating an 11ty collection from a JSON API

Using 11ty Global data files, you can make collections from JSON APIs, allowing you to make whole websites from one endpoint

Jun 28, 2021

by Mike Street (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Collections How to...Global Data

Creating pages from data with Eleventy

Eleventy has the ability to generated multiple pages from a structured data source, either static JSON or JSON dynamically generated by JavaScript code.

Apr 25, 2021

by Florian Eckerstorfer (8 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data

Building a Database Driven Eleventy Site

Using a database (MySQL) to drive content for an Eleventy site

Apr 15, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Plugins Pagination Global Data

Using PDFs with the Jamstack

Using the Adobe PDF Embed API to view PDFs on your Jasmstack site

Feb 25, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: How to...Global Data Pagination

I Finally Understand Eleventy's Data Cascade

Where does Eleventy get all of its data? Which data overrules other data? I've documented my whole mental model of Eleventy's data cascade.

Feb 21, 2021

by Ben Myers (6 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data

Site Metadata

A useful technique to manage site metadata (title, description, url, etc) for ease of retrieval throughout templates and content.

Feb 15, 2021

by Stephanie Eckles (21 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Data Cascade Global Data

Create a Contributors Page in Eleventy

Jan 29, 2021

by Michael Chan (7 posts) · Website

Categories: How to...Global Data

Accessing Eleventy Data on the Client Side

Accessing Eleventy data files in your JavaScript code

Jan 18, 2021

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Global Data Remote Data How to...Front Matter

Using Airtable with Eleventy

A long-winded look at getting Airtable data into Eleventy.

Dec 11, 2020

by Dana Byerly (8 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Remote Data How to...Global Data

Using Eleventy data files for frequently used links

Have a set of frequently referenced links? A global data file can come in handy.

Sep 5, 2020

by Dana Byerly (8 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Remote Data Global Data Data Cascade

Migrating from Node and Express to the Jamstack - Part 1

A look at how you can migrate from Node to the Jamstack

Aug 6, 2020

by Raymond Camden (100 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy Global Data Pagination

Easily Use Design Tokens In Eleventy

May 16, 2020

by Heydon Pickering (3 posts) · Website

Categories: Global Data

Building a website with a static site generator, part 2: Eleventy

In this post, we're gonna take a deeper look into Eleventy which takes care of building the website by combining layout templates with blog post data from Markdown files.

Mar 18, 2020

by Juha-Matti Santala (13 posts) · Website & RSS feed

Categories: Getting Started Global Data Layouts Blogging

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