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2026

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Cleaning House: Refactoring My Eleventy Config Into Modules

How I decomposed an 866-line .eleventy.js monolith into four focused modules, fixed some lurking bugs, and eliminated dead CSS and dead dependencies along the way.

Brennan Kenneth Brown (13)

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Optimizing My Eleventy Build: An AI Use Note

Using Claude at home, and finding that I don’t like the taste.

Mark Llobrera (8)

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Feature Toggles with Eleventy

A short technical walkthrough on setting up feature toggles in Eleventy.

Kitty Giraudel (16)

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Adding custom rendering to HTML elements in 11ty/Build Awesome

Ever wanted to change how HTML renders in 11ty? Perhaps inject a span or two into a link? Well have I got the post for you...

Jessie Heald (16)

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Building brennan.day Part Two: IndieWeb, New Features, and Three Months of Iterations

What have I added to my site since I started in December? Quality-of-life improvements, new pages, interesting features, and of course, easter eggs! When you add a little each day, it really adds up.

Brennan Kenneth Brown (13)

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Building my Blog with 11ty

While discussing this on Mastodon (a great place to follow other tech people), at the beginning of the year, it was suggested that I give eleventy a try.

Jason Reed (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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Edge.js Template Plugin for 11ty

Ever felt frustrated with HTML templates like Pug, Handlebars, Liquid, or Nunjucks? If you know JavaScript, you might want to give Edge.js a try! I built a plugin for 11ty and converted my entire blog. TLDR: I like it!

David Neal (3)

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Eleventy Rebuild

I folded my Kirby and Astro sites into a new Eleventy build.

Matt Stein (1)

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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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Eleventy Adding Page Links to a Post

I created a plugin called Eleventy Plugin Markdown Post Links that adds a list of links to the top of my posts. The plugin has options for different types of lists and can generate links based on a minimum number specified. I implemented it on my site with a collapsible link list feature. You can fi

John M. Wargo (47)

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Eleventy in 2026

My stack and workflow in 2026

Jay Cuthrell (3)

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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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hire.shivjm.in: The Missing Cover Letter

I turned a blog entry into a profile of myself as a developer.

Shiv J.M. (13)

More Description

Let's continue Another WhileDo post. Of course, my amazing work yesterday had one fatal flaw and that is that the preview…

Martin Hähnel (14)

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Adding a custom filename to a code block in Elev­enty with markdown-it

Making those code blocks a little more personal.

Christopher Kirk-Nielsen (15)

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An Eleventy Showcase!

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

Jesus Otero Lagunes (1)

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Using Obsidian Callouts with 11ty

A simple guide on how to make an Obsidian style Callout or Information box

Aninus Partikler (1)

Formatting maths in Eleventy with KaTeX

A blog on software development and other stuff

Glyn Normington (4)

Blogging in markdown

A blog on software development and other stuff

Glyn Normington (4)

Replacing WriteFreely with eleventy

A blog on software development and other stuff

Glyn Normington (4)

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Eleventy plugin recs, part 1

Renkon's personal site and blog.

Renkon (3)

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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...

Ariel Salminen (2)

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11tyCMS: Trapped in image and markdown hell

Wow. 11tyCMS has gone through some really rough times these past 24 hours. What happened you ask? Well: * I found out that MDXEditor, the core WYSIWYG edi

Jessie Heald (16)

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custom emoji in 11ty with a plugin

custom emoji shortcodes!

actuallysomecat (4)

How To Make Eleventy Understand Obsidian-style Callouts

I really like callouts as a concept. If you're unfamiliar, they are a way to make a part of a note or post stand out. Because…

Martin Hähnel (14)

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blog setup

notes about the 11ty + obsidian setup behind this blog

actuallysomecat (4)

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Letterboxd to Markdown

A small node script to create a markdown file for each movie review in a Letterboxd RSS feed

Keith Kurson (3)

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Announcing WordPress Export to Markdown v3

I’m happy to announce the release of WordPress Export to Markdown v3! With this milestone, I figured I’d take a moment to share some backstory and talk about...

Will Boyd (1)

11ty Math

Markdown, LaTex and ASCII - who writes HTML?

Brian Kardell (1)

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11ty Obsidian & Github Style Alert Blocks

Adding Obsidian & Github Style Alert / Callout Blocks Using 11ty and markdown-it Plugins

equilibriumuk (21)

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11ty Markdown External Links Plugin

Setting target _blank and rel noopener noreferrer to external links using markdown-it + 11ty

equilibriumuk (21)

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The markdown filters your Eleventy project needs

Migrating from my old Jekyll site to Eleventy meant two things, I lost a lot of out-of-the-box helpers, but at the same time gained the flexibility to extend any part of my site build pipeline via JavaScript.

Jeremias Menichelli (1)

How To Add Footnotes To Eleventy

An easy way to add footnotes to Eleventy is to use an existing plugin for markdown-it , which is what Eleventy uses internally…

Martin Hähnel (14)

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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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Learning 11ty by adapting a Jekyll Template

converting a Jekyll template to eleventy the hard way

Adam DJ Brett (10)

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Migrating to 11ty

It's been a while coming, but I've finally managed to get around to migrating to 11ty and Cloudflare Pages. I go over the ups and downs of the migration process in this blog post.

Matt Hobbs (8)

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Going all in with 'native' markdown

I've been typing way too much. There are simpler ways to use markdown for images and tables of contents. Here's how I'm doing it.

Bob Monsour (26)

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Building a Blog with Eleventy

I recently felt like getting back into blogging. But setting up and maintaining WordPress felt like more than I was looking for. I was looking for something much simpler. Preferably file-based and with Markdown support. That was my introduction to Eleventy.

Sebin Nyshkim (3)

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A Versatile Markdown Shortcode for Eleventy

A blog about CSS, front-end development, the web, and beyond.

Michelle Barker (5)

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Eleventy Images Just Got Better

Eleventy 3.0 adds a new API to optimize images anywhere on your site, without shortcodes.

Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (14)

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Simple Eleventy 3 Excerpts

Sometimes it makes sense to write a unique excerpt. But sometimes the beginning of the page content works well enough, which is why many…

Tyler Sticka (5)

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A feed for everything and everything in a feed

At the moment my site has 6 different feeds. 5 RSS feeds, an ICS feeds and JSON versions of the 5 RSS feeds. I was asked how they're put together and, well, it's a bit involved.

Cory Dransfeldt (46)

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Adding Github-Style Markdown Alerts to Eleventy

How I added support for callouts/alerts to this site

Robb Knight (20)

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Upgrading to Eleventy 3.0

Netlify Large Media forces my hand.

Mark Llobrera (8)

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Displaying Line Numbers in 11ty Code Blocks

Add line numbers to 11ty code blocks with Prism and Markdown-it, bypassing the plugin's DOM-dependency by adjusting the renderer during the build process.

Jonathan Lau (2)

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Some of my Eleventy Filters

In refactoring my website earlier this year, part of my process was to evaluate and revise the many, many Eleventy Filters I use throughout my website’s build, so in this post, I’ll run through a handful of them.

Chris Burnell (8)

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Leveraging APIs like Notion with a nice caching system

How I implemented Notion and PSN APIs in my Eleventy build for my Now and Gaming pages.

Christopher Kirk-Nielsen (15)

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Upgrading to Eleventy 1.0.1

If it ain’t broke, clearly you gotta fix it.

Mark Llobrera (8)

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Highlight Code Block Lines In Eleventy with Shiki Twoslash

Eleventy Markdown code block line highlighting made simple

Henry Bley-Vroman (4)

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Numbered Code Block Lines in Eleventy with Shiki Twoslash

Bringing in a third-party library for easy, reliable line numbering

Henry Bley-Vroman (4)

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Create an Interactive TOC from Markdown-Generated Content

Create an interactive TOC for Markdown in Static Site Generators using the Intersection Observer API.

Jonathan Lau (2)

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How I Eleventy

Documenting a refactor that introduced a folder structure and configuration changes, which summarises how I Eleventy.

Declan Byrd (2)

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I archived my tweets

Thoughts on archiving and restoration as it relates to my Twitter feed.

Lynn Fisher (1)

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Intro: Bukmark.club

Introducing a new side project: I built a directory of websites that provide a curated collection of bookmarks and/or links to other websites.

Tom Doe (10)

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Automated weekly links posts with raindrop.io and Eleventy

The quest: how could I mark a link or blog post as “good”, and have it show up in my blog on a Sunday without me having to do anything?

Sophie Koonin (5)

2023

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Customizing external links with Eleventy

How to modify external links by post-processing HTML in Eleventy.

Martin Gunnarsson (9)

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Maintaining working local links in Eleventy

How to keep links between Markdown files working both locally and on your Eleventy site.

Martin Gunnarsson (9)

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VSCode Pasting 11ty Images

Creating content locally like a hosted editor

Jeff Sheets (5)

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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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Create Markdown Page Template With Shell Script

I have been using Save As to create new web pages from old ones for my blog for some time now. This works okay, but I have to rename the file, delete out the old content then try to leave some of the reusable HTML snippets like image, links and the resources section, which can be a bit cumbersom.

Jeremy Faucher (8)

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Formatting Obsidian markdown to render in Eleventy

Added functionality to find and replace certain Obsidian markdown with Nunjucks templates and HTML

Thomas Rigby (8)

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Markdown Image Optimization In Eleventy

I'm equilibriumuk, a software engineer. I write about programming & computer related topics

equilibriumuk (21)

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11ty image shortcode best practice

Simon Cox outlines how to properly set up and use the 11ty image shortcode, fixing issues with high-res sources, spacing in markdown, and rendering bugs.

Simon Cox (17)

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My plugin for markdown-it: codewrap

My solution to adding

Christopher Kirk-Nielsen (15)

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Accessible anchor permalinks

Jan De Wilde, designer and web developer

Jan De Wilde (2)

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How I built my own excerpt for Markdown content in Eleventy

I was not really happy with Eleventy's native excerpt solution requiring just a separator and having the excerpt content preserved in the content, without any way to style it differently. So I tried different alternatives, and settled on a solution with some Markdown-it plugins and a bunch of re

Nicolas Hoizey (5)

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Using Rmarkdown with Eleventy

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

Michael Schmidt (2)

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Adding Wiki Links to 11ty

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

Simon Dann (11)

2022

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Eleventy, Markdown, and Tailwind CSS

English software developer based in Seattle.

Matthew Tole (1)

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Adding Custom Anchors to Headings in Markdown - Eleventy

Anchors are nothing but id attributes applied to an element to link to it using href attribute internally on the same page.

Murtuzaali Surti (5)

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Responsive Images in Markdown with Eleventy Image

I love markdown's simplicity and convenience, but sometimes you need a little more than the default image tag. In this post, I walk through how responsive images (with the picture tag) are handled on this blog in a way that doesn't compromise the authoring experience.

Tomi Chen (1)

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11ty quick tip: Nunjucks include in markdown without indentation

If you're not careful, included files are not correctly rendered.

Tim Kleyersburg (2)

2021

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Enabling Emoji Shortcodes in Eleventy Markdown Files

Turn on emoji shortcodes in markdown files in Eleventy by adding the markdwon-it-emoji plugin.

Wes Goulet (1)

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Table of Contents in Eleventy

anh (3)

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A Remarkable Discovery

I switched from markdown-it to remark and I’m much happier for it.

Shiv J.M. (13)

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Accessible anchor links with Markdown-it and Eleventy

I like to be able to link directly to a section in a long content. I wish every site provided anchor links associated to headings, even if Text Fragments might be a cross browser thing sometimes in the future. Here's how I made the anchor links of my Eleventy based site accessible.

Nicolas Hoizey (5)

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Add HTML classes to 11ty markdown content

11ty comes with some useful plugins for markdown manipulation, one of these is... Tagged with 11ty, eleventy.

Giulia Chiola (1)

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2020

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How to generate ID attributes in headings using Eleventy

Eleventy doesn't generate heading IDs by default, here's how to do it.

Nicholas C. Zakas (2)

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2019

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Using eleventy

Placeholder text. Can't generate excerpt

Carlos Araya (5)

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.