113 posts in 'Why Eleventy?'
2025
A blog of the presentation given at the #ReclaimOpen25 conference.
Nov 5, 2025
by Tim Klapdor (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why 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 EleventyWhy Eleventy?
This is a post featuring what you can do with Eleventy and Markdown!
Aug 30, 2025
by Jesus Otero Lagunes (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: MarkdownWhy Eleventy?
In 2019, I rewrote this blog with Gatsby. I outlined my reasons in that post, but basically I wanted to use similar technology to build my blog as I used day-to-day at work. Middleman, Bootstrap, and jQuery seemed old and busted. Gatsby, React, and TypeScript seemed so much more fun.
Aug 26, 2025
by Ash Furrow (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
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 websi
Aug 21, 2025
by Richard MacManus (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
How choosing the right tool for the job led to faster load times and fewer dependencies.
Jul 15, 2025
by Dan Webb (1 post) · Website
Categories: Migrating to EleventyPerformanceWebCWhy Eleventy?
I don't use WordPress. Instead, I build faster, simpler, more reliable websites with Jamstack tools like 11ty, Pages CMS and Netlify — and here's why.
Jun 27, 2025
by Ryan Gittings (4 posts) · Website
Categories: BloggingCMSDeploymentNetlifyPerformanceWhy Eleventy?
YouTube video
Jun 17, 2025
Categories: BloggingGetting StartedWhy Eleventy?
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
May 28, 2025
by Brian Cantoni (6 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Moved the blog away from pure HTML and migrated to 11ty
May 11, 2025
by Rosenqvist (1 post) · Website
Categories: BloggingMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Mar 28, 2025
by Denis Ricard (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Mar 25, 2025
by Austin Carr (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingCollectionsConfigurationDatesFront MatterGetting StartedHow to...LayoutsMarkdownPaginationWhy Eleventy?
Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist
Mar 19, 2025
by Sarah Reichelt (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingConfigurationGetting StartedMigrating to EleventyPerformancePluginsWhy Eleventy?
I put off building this website for over a year and then I whipped it together in 3 short evenings. I will, once again, of course, be learning no lessons about procrastination from this.
Mar 12, 2025
by Thomas Rumbold (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingWhy Eleventy?
Hello and welcome to my _NEW_ new website. If everything goes well, it should look almost exactly the same[^1].Around nine years ago, I set this website up with [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com) and [GitHub Pages](https://pages.github.com). Since the...
Feb 22, 2025
by zmknox (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Feb 12, 2025
by La màquina de Turing (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
YouTube video
Jan 23, 2025
Categories: CMSGetting StartedMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?YouTube
hi there! please enjoy my blog of things i think are interesting
Jan 18, 2025
by Melanie Kat (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingCSS/SassImagesMigrating to EleventyPaginationPerformanceWhy Eleventy?
Why I rewrote this site with Eleventy after a two-year sojourn with Astro.
Jan 14, 2025
by Sean McPherson (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
YouTube video
Jan 9, 2025
Categories: Why Eleventy?
2024
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.
Dec 22, 2024
by Matt Hobbs (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: MarkdownMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Adam DJ Brett Web Developer
Dec 13, 2024
by Adam DJ Brett (6 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Nov 25, 2024
by Matt Steele (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyPerformanceWebCWhy Eleventy?
Near the end of October 2024, I made the decision to move my site over to using Eleventy behind the scenes. Here's why I did it, and how I chose Eleventy over everything else.
Nov 17, 2024
by Gregory Hammond (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
I spent an entire weekend migrating my Eleventy site to Astro—and then back to Eleventy! A reflection on using the right tool for the job, when many options are viable.
Nov 10, 2024
by Sage Fennel (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Alex talks at length about what it's like using both Ghost and 11ty for two different blogs.
Oct 15, 2024
by Alex Ward (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingCMSWhy Eleventy?
Prairie Rose Arena - Project Notes
Oct 10, 2024
by Sam Feldstein (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CMSDeploymentHow to...ImagesPerformanceWhy Eleventy?
CAUTION
The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v3.0.0 (Oct 1, 2024). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 3.12.
Notes on migrating this website from Jekyll to Eleventy, as well as a bit of (re)design in the open.
Jul 14, 2024
by Chris Henrick (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
I just migrated this little website’s internals over to Eleventy. If I did my job right, you won’t notice the change.
Jul 14, 2024
by Ethan Marcotte (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Write your own markup for fun and profit
Jul 12, 2024
by Ari Prakash (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
A very good website by visual & verbal artist, Keenan.
Jul 2, 2024
by Keenan (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingGetting StartedMarkdownRSSWhy Eleventy?
Jun 23, 2024
by Peter Sefton (1 post) · Website
Categories: CollectionsHow to...ImagesWhy Eleventy?
Jun 11, 2024
by Keith Wagner (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Re(re-re) building my personal site with Eleventy and web components
May 21, 2024
by Keith Kurson (3 posts) · Website
Categories: BloggingWebCWhy Eleventy?
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
May 17, 2024
by Zach Leatherman (56 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024Why Eleventy?YouTubeFrom the Source
May 9, 2024
by Blake Watson (1 post) · Website
Categories: BloggingMigrating to EleventySearchWhy Eleventy?
May 8, 2024
by Jakob Schwanenberg (1 post) · Website
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Eleventy (11ty) is a compelling solution for developers seeking a straightforward, performance-oriented approach to static site generation.
May 7, 2024
by Nelson Michael (2 posts) · Website
Categories: DeploymentGetting StartedWhy Eleventy?
I rebuilt my website with the static site generator Eleventy in April 2024.
Apr 21, 2024
by Leilukin (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Building website projects from the scratch with Eleventy is a delightful process in my experience because in the beginning, all you need is index.md and you can then customise and add on top of it as much as you like.
Apr 13, 2024
by Juha-Matti Santala (21 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedWhy Eleventy?
I recreated my developer portfolio and blog from scratch with Eleventy.
Apr 11, 2024
by Helen Chong (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Why Eleventy?
Why a developer that uses NextJS every day chose 11ty for their personal site.
Mar 31, 2024
by Chris Hayes (1 post) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
I'll show you the true power of being third!
Mar 2, 2024
by Devin Haska (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CSS/SassData CascadeGlobal DataMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Whether you're a startup founder, a small business owner, or part of a larger organisation, navigating the complexities of web development can be daunting. In today's fast-paced digital landscape, where user experience reigns supreme and website performance can make or break your online succ
Feb 24, 2024
by Ryan Gittings (4 posts) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
I have redesigned my PhD Website – Linked Open Usable Data for Cultural Heritage (https://phd.julsraemy.ch) – with 11ty, a static site generator, instead of Omeka S.
Feb 22, 2024
by Julien A. Raemy (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Feb 11, 2024
by Michelle Barker (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedWhy Eleventy?
We’re running an 11ty Conference! — Eleventy
Jan 30, 2024
by 11ty (19 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Today I've gone live with a new website and email newsletter platform for Cybercultural, my tech history newsletter that I started on Substack in 2019. What pushed me to migrate off Substack is its stance on hate content, which I personally object to. But over the past several months, I've…
Jan 26, 2024
by Richard MacManus (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Back in 2018 I migrated my blog from WordPress to Hexo. Hexo is a static site generator running on Node.js. At the time I chose Hexo because it allowed me complete control over the structure of the resulting website, plus I could override and tweak the markup of the resulting pages. Hexo is a fairly
Jan 13, 2024
by Alistair Deneys (2 posts) · Website
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Jan 7, 2024
by Dipesh Kumar (1 post) · Website
Categories: CSS/SassWhy Eleventy?
Despite searching the internet, I couldn't find a quick starter for my online resume project, not even on the official 11ty start page. Consequently, I decided to invest some time in creating one and making it available as a starter project for a broader audience.
Jan 5, 2024
by Gurpreet Singh (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedHow to...Why Eleventy?
After 9 years of self-hosted WordPress on EC2, I'm finally converting my blog to Eleventy and deploying it to AWS serverless services with Ampt.
Jan 5, 2024
by Jeremy Daly (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Jan 4, 2024
by Steve Abraham (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CMSWhy Eleventy?
Jan 3, 2024
by Josh Ghent (1 post) · Website
Categories: BloggingMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
2023
I recently migrated my website from NextJS to Eleventy.
Dec 17, 2023
by Sandro Roth (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWebCWhy Eleventy?
Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0 — Eleventy
Dec 17, 2023
by 11ty (19 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?Upgrading
Ramblings about how and why I re-wrote this site completely soon after I first published it
Dec 14, 2023
by Martin Gunnarsson (9 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Migrating W3Things from WordPress to 11ty (Eleventy) static site generator. Sharing the site transfer experience and more.
Dec 10, 2023
by Danial Zahid (6 posts) · Website
Categories: How to...Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
We evaluate Eleventy and Next.js and compare both static site generators for performance, developer experience, scalability, and ecosystem.
Dec 7, 2023
by Nelson Michael (2 posts) · Website
Categories: BloggingConfigurationGetting StartedWhy Eleventy?
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Nov 29, 2023
by Zach Leatherman (56 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?YouTube
Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy — Eleventy
Nov 29, 2023
by 11ty (19 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?YouTube
A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Nov 21, 2023
by Zach Leatherman (56 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
In this article, I will talk about why I switched, how I did it, and my thoughts about Eleventy as a new user.
Oct 27, 2023
by Andrew Ward (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
In this article, I share why I choose this combination, hoping you also fall in love with them.
Oct 11, 2023
by Estela Franco (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: CMSWhy Eleventy?
LostInBrittany's tech blog, reborn... again...
Oct 9, 2023
by Horacio Gonzalez (1 post) · Website
Categories: WebCWhy Eleventy?
A short introduction why I started a blog and what you can expect here
Oct 6, 2023
by Albrecht Kohnlein (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
How to make your site generate more leads, increase revenue, and save on engineering. These are the best design principles to follow when creating a web system instead of a website. Brought to you by one of the world's best product studios.
Sep 26, 2023
by Fictive Kin (1 post) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Benefits, downsides and the whole journey of migrating to an SSG.
Sep 9, 2023
by Piotr Maliński (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.
Aug 20, 2023
by Chris McLeod (7 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingWhy Eleventy?
When I last redesigned tylersticka.com, I was tired of my content management system. I already authored posts with Markdown and HTML, my…
Aug 12, 2023
by Tyler Sticka (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Eleventy and CloudCannon! — Eleventy
Jul 25, 2023
by 11ty (19 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Not long after receiving a short-sighted shafting, my favorite JavaScript-based SSG and its creator wind up in good and friendly hands.
Jul 25, 2023
by Bryce Wray (26 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
YouTube video
Jul 24, 2023
Categories: Why Eleventy?YouTube
WordPress has been with me since my very first post in 2009. There is a lot to love about it: It’s open source, it has a thriving ecosystem, a beautiful default theme, and a revolutionary block editor that makes my inner UX geek giddy. Plus, WP made building a website and publishing content accessib
Jul 21, 2023
by Lea Verou (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023) — Eleventy
Jul 17, 2023
by 11ty (19 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Six Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy
Jul 4, 2023
by 11ty (19 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Choosing a Jamstack Static Site Generator
Jul 3, 2023
by Neal Gamradt (1 post) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
For years my personal website used WordPress, now it's using Eleventy and this is why
Jun 18, 2023
by Chris Smith (2 posts) · Website
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Static site generator Eleventy recently released version 2.0, which includes support for web component files and a new dev server.
May 10, 2023
by Loraine Lawson (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: PerformanceWhy Eleventy?
There are a ton of options for full stack web frameworks that don't use React. Let's explore some of them and why they are each unique.
Mar 17, 2023
by Brian Rinaldi (1 post) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
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 3.12.
Here’s a recap of my thoughts about the best tools for building and maintaining personal websites.
Feb 3, 2023
by Bryce Wray (26 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Eleventy is rising in the ranks among static site generators ⚡ It is powerful, simple to use, and can help you achieve the coveted top Lighthouse performance score ⚡ Let’s dive into what else makes it unique
Jan 24, 2023
by Irina I. (1 post) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Jan 2, 2023
by Don Hamilton (1 post) · Website
Categories: Getting StartedWhy Eleventy?
2022
Ramblings about software development, privacy, and whatever happens to strike my fancy.
Nov 4, 2022
by Ryan Cao (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Engineering Management, SQL, and a dash of front-end from NYC.
Oct 13, 2022
by TJ Addison (2 posts) · Website
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
How I came to build (a previous version of) this site on the Jamstack.
Sep 26, 2022
by Daniel Saunders (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Two years after launching my site with 11ty, it’s grown considerably, and yet I’m still in love with the tool.
Aug 5, 2022
by Sean Davis (6 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
2021
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 3.12.
An in-depth review of 11ty, an extensible static site generator written in Node that supports a variety of template languages.
Jun 3, 2021
by Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
YouTube video
May 31, 2021
by Stephanie Eckles (21 posts)
Categories: How to...Why Eleventy?
One year after I switched from GatsbyJS to Eleventy, In this post I recapped the process and wrote down how it is today working with Eleventy.
May 12, 2021
by Marc Radziwill (1 post) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Apr 14, 2021
by Jeremy Epstein (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?Migrating to Eleventy
Image by 11ty.dev I would like to share my opinionated path how I got started using. Table... Tagged with eleventy, thingsivelearned, blazingfast, staticsitegenerator.
Feb 5, 2021
by Lea Rosema (4 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedWhy Eleventy?
Eleventy includes features that allow exceeding the traditional limits of static. Learn how to leverage these features and think beyond static when using Eleventy.
Jan 28, 2021
by Stephanie Eckles (21 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
2020
Trying to choose between the two best static site generators? See if these points address your personal hot buttons.
Dec 28, 2020
by Bryce Wray (26 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Software developer and team lead working remotely from Richmond, VA. Loves solving problems, grilling, tinkering with Home Assistant, metal shows, and his cats.
Dec 20, 2020
by Michael Harley (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedBloggingWhy Eleventy?ConfigurationLayouts
We’re talking about Eleventy. What is it and how does it fit into your Jamstack workflow? Drew McLellan talks to Renaissance man David Darnes to find out.
Nov 3, 2020
by David Darnes (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
It's been really hard to keep up with web development technologies over the past 10 years 🤔, but here's how 11ty and the JAMstack is helping me build static sites in a modern way. 👍. Tagged with webdev, eleventy, html, jamstack.
Oct 11, 2020
by Tom Anderson (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Aug 31, 2020
by Michelle Barker (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
This is the first part of the Let't Learn Eleventy series. We'll learn what is Eleventy and how to get started with it.
Aug 26, 2020
by Rares Portan (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?Getting Started
Why I choose Eleventy over Gatsby for my new website
Jun 21, 2020
by Iain Bean (2 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Jun 1, 2020
by Mark Thomas Miller (5 posts) · Website
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Losing webpack, regaining Tailwind CSS.
May 9, 2020
by Bryce Wray (26 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
In cases of emergency, many organizations need a quick way to publish critical information. But existing (CMS) websites are often unable to handle sudden spikes in traffic.
Mar 22, 2020
by Max Böck (8 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Why Eleventy?
Details on my migration to Eleventy
Feb 27, 2020
by Raymond Camden (104 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
I have an obsession with SSGs, and Eleventy is my favourite (even better than Hugo, Jekyll, and Gatsby).
Jan 31, 2020
by Tom Hazledine (3 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
2019
Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.
Oct 12, 2019
by Raymond Camden (104 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?Pagination
Only weeks after telling you I was sticking with Hugo, I switch to Eleventy: the whys and wherefores.
Sep 8, 2019
by Bryce Wray (26 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?
Over the last month so, I’ve been working with Dr. Julian Jones to port some design system projects from Jekyll over to Eleventy, the feral possum of static site generators. Why undertake a whole replatforming initiative? Well, there were two primary issues we were trying to solve:
Aug 19, 2019
by Dave Rupert (1 post) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Why Eleventy?
Placeholder text. Can't generate excerpt
May 1, 2019
by Carlos Araya (5 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: DeploymentMarkdownPluginsWhy Eleventy?