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2024

Thirteenth place on Eleventy Leaderboards

My site got to thirteenth place on Eleventy Leaderboards with perfect Lighthouse scores.

Categories: How to...Performance

How I shaved 1.5 minutes off my Eleventy build time

I had a revelation earlier today that solved a long-standing performance issue I’ve been having with the initial build of my Eleventy website, and here’s how it saved me a bunch of time!

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...PerformancePlugins

Building a Live Preview with Eleventy, Contentful, and Liquid Templating

As a part of the marketing team at Heyflow, I collaborate with people who work on the company’s website. Although all team members are technically acquainted, sometimes they struggle to update the website. The struggle is not being able to visualize what will change on the page when updating the content. Saving the updates and […]

Categories: CMSHow to...NetlifyRemote DataServerless

Webmentions Web Component

I got overwhelmed by build steps and decided to fetch my webmentions through a web component.

Categories: How to...Webmentions

Lightweight search in Eleventy

I've been using Pagefind for my site search for a while now and would readily recommend it, but I wanted to throw together something a bit lighter weight and customizable.

Categories: How to...Search

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.

Categories: BloggingFront MatterHow to...

How to add tags with links to hub topic pages in 11ty

Categories: CollectionsHow to...

Automate Your Static Site Rebuilds with Netlify Scheduled Functions

Effortlessly automate regular website updates for your static site using Netlify scheduled functions. Set it and forget it - never worry about manual updates again!

Categories: BloggingDeploymentHow to...Netlify

Eleventy excerpts

Everybody seems to implement their own way of generating post excerpts in Eleventy, and here's mine.

Categories: BloggingFiltersHow to...

We Need to Talk About Your Eleventy Post Dates

Almost everyone using Eleventy is using blog post dates wrong

Categories: DatesRSS

The "IndieWeb" feels like coming home

I moved this site to Eleventy hosted on Neocities and as a result I'm having fun with my website again!

Categories: BloggingGetting StartedMigrating to Eleventy

Group posts by year in Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: BloggingCollectionsDatesHow to...

Automatic image pre-processing in Eleventy, Part 2

A post about the new automatic template image scaling support in Eleventy Image 4.0.0.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Images

I have a Problem with Build Times

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

Categories: ImagesPerformance

How I Eleventy

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

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...LayoutsMarkdownPermalinksShortcodes

I archived my tweets

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

Categories: BloggingMarkdownSocial Media

Using an Eleventy event to optimize component JavaScrip

I've added a small event to optimize web component JavaScript when my site builds.

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...Performance

Surfacing most used tags in Eleventy

I made some lightweight design changes to my site, keeping things simple but moving the date up above post headers, surfacing tags below and restoring `Read more` links.

Categories: CollectionsFiltersHow to...

Adding inline SVGs to Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: How to...ImagesConfiguration

Eleventy: pathPrefix and GitHub Pages

Quick step-by-step recipe on how to deploy Eleventy site inside a subdirectory.

Categories: ConfigurationDebuggingDeployment

Version 3

I'll show you the true power of being third!

Categories: CSS/SassData CascadeGlobal DataMigrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

Eleventy - Group posts by year

Let's create a blog with posts grouped by year in descending order. This is actually tricky to pull off!

Categories: BloggingCollectionsConfigurationDatesHow to...

Building My Comics Page

How I built my comics page using League of Comic Geeks, a NodeJS module and Eleventy.

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Deploy an Eleventy site to Cloudflare Pages efficiently with GitHub's action cache

Deploy an Eleventy site to Cloudflare Pages efficiently with GitHub's action cache I have wanted to move this site from Netlify for a while now, but the recent news about their bandwidth pricing made...

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

Unveiling the Marvels of 11ty's WebC

Are you ready to dive deep into the world of web development and discover a game-changing tool that will revolutionise the way you build websites?

Categories: How to...PerformanceWebC

Inexactly benchmarking Eleventy vs Astro build times

The Eames Institute team is checking out some frameworks and static site generators for a project, and I wanted to see how Eleventy and Astro compare in

Categories: Performance

Search, Webmentions and microformats

I’ve made some updates on my website - let’s talk about them. I added a search functionality with Pagefind, Webmention support both directions and microformats to my blog posts.

Categories: How to...SearchWebmentions

Elevating Video Transcripts as Searchable Content

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: How to...PluginsWebCYouTube

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

Categories: BloggingCollectionsFront MatterRSSSocial Media

Updating 11ty to enjoy ESM

I updated the version of 11ty I use for this blog to the current alpha, to switch from CJS to ESM.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

THE Eleventy Meetup Feb 20th

We had a lovely meetup with the Eleventy community. I talked about building meetup community sites utilizing Global Data Files and Robb talked about how he builds his website with Eleventy, pulling data in from various sources.

Categories: BloggingHow to...YouTube

10 Reasons Why Static Site Generators Are Perfect for Modern Web Development

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 success, finding the right approach to building and maintaining your web presence is critical.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Eleventy: custom markup alongside item contents

Short and quick tutorial on how to embed custom HTML content between post paragraphs on an Eleventy site.

Categories: ConfigurationFiltersHow to...

Eight Million NPM Downloads!

Eight Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

Categories: Social Media

Weaving music data in and out of my personal website

I started integrating music data into my personal website when I added Last.fm artist and album displays to my now page. Initially, I tried sourcing artist images from a few different services, knowing that Last.fm had updated their API to stop serving them. After a fair bit of searching I found that most services that supplied artist images covered only a small fraction of my library and often supplied the wrong image when there were multiple artists sharing the same name.

Categories: How to...Now PageRemote Data

Using Eleventy to Gobble Up Everything I Do Online

A blog post about how my site works based on a talk I did at the Eleventy meetup

Categories: BloggingGlobal DataHow to...Remote DataSocial Media

Building a bespoke now-playing web component

I've long had a now playing element on the home page of my site that displays either what I've checked into on Trakt, the Lakers' record and who they're playing when a game is on or the last song I've listened to. After leveraging some new web components on my site, I decided to refactor the code powering this into a web component specific to my needs.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...Now Page

Refactor by shortcode

I decided to take on some overdue refactoring of the 11tybundle.dev site. Here's what I did.

Categories: FiltersHow to...Nunjucks/MacrosShortcodes

Automatic Mastodon post embeds

I use Nicolas Hoizey's GitHub action to syndicate my web activity to Mastodon. Recently, I removed the display of webmentions from my posts after seeing Chris and Robb discuss some privacy concerns around them. Upon seeing David Darnes' mastodon-post web component, I've gone ahead and added it, conditionally, to the end of each of my posts.

Categories: DeploymentSocial MediaWebmentions

Using B2 as a JSON data store

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.

Categories: Data CascadeGlobal DataHow to...Remote Data

@fec/eleventy-plugin-asset-pipeline: Better Cache Busting with Eleventy

I have created an Eleventy plugin to easily implement cache busting and asset handling.

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...Plugins

Eleventy - Differentiate between dev and production builds with unique favicons

It is easy to mix up the dev and production versions of a website in the browser. Let's make them look unique by using different favicons.

Categories: ConfigurationData CascadeDeploymentImages

Eleventy now support automatic transforms from local paths to output URLs right out of the box.

Categories: FiltersHow to...Plugins

Setting up image transforms in Eleventy

I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I enjoy hanging out with my beautiful family and 4 rescue dogs, technology, automation, music, writing, reading and tv and movies.

Categories: How to...ImagesPlugins

Eleventy 🤝 Immich

HOW DO YOU DO, PLEASE STATE YOUR PROBLEM _

Categories: CollectionsHow to...ImagesPlugins

Keeping your Algolia search index up to date

Keeping your search index up to date as your content changes is critically important to ensure your search results return valid information. Here's how it's done.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Search

11ty RSS Activepieces

A look at enhancing 11ty POSSE with RSS 2.0, Open Graph, and Activepieces

Categories: RSSSocial Media

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.

Categories: CMSConfigurationGlobal DataHow to...

Webmentions and 11ty

Getting webmentions up and running on 11ty

Categories: How to...Remote DataWebmentions

Lessons Learned Moving Eleventy form CommonJS to ESM

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Plugins

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.

Categories: FiltersGlobal DataLayoutsRemote Data

Added Folder Selection to My New Post Utility

Added an enhancement to my Eleventy New Post utility to support choosing the target folder during post creation.

Categories: BloggingHow to...

Check if images are available before optimizing in Eleventy

How to check if a remote image is available before attempting to optimize it using @11ty/eleventy-img.

Categories: How to...ImagesWebmentions

Eleventy Filter to Turn a URL Into a Domain Name

ZOMG I made my first 11ty filter!

Categories: FiltersHow to...

Slashing by caching

I've reduced the build time for the 11ty Bundle site from 30 seconds to 10 seconds. Here's how.

Categories: FiltersHow to...Performance

The Good, the Bad, the Web Components

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: WebC

Different favicon for development build

How to make tabs in the browser always show which build you’re working on.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Nunjucks/Macros

We're Running an 11ty Conference

We’re running an 11ty Conference! — Eleventy

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Top 11 free Eleventy themes for 2024

A curated list of the top 11 Eleventy themes on GitHub in 2024.

Categories: ConfigurationGetting StartedLayouts

Eleventy - Get autocompletion and doc info in your eleventy config in VS Code

In VS Code, you don't get autocompletion in your eleventy config. You don't get info about functions when you hover over them. Here is how you add it.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Why I Migrated My Newsletter From Substack to Eleventy and Buttondown

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…

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

💻 Emoji URLs and 11ty Webmentions

Not letting emojis drop mentions on the floor

Categories: How to...Webmentions

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.

Categories: Data CascadeFiltersGlobal DataHow 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?

Categories: ConfigurationGlobal DataHow to...Layouts

Mastering Eleventy Folder Structures: From Default Setups to Real-World Best Practices

Explore the essentials of Eleventy's folder structure in this guide, perfect for optimizing your project's efficiency and scalability. Learn from basic setups to advanced custom structures, ensuring your 11ty site is perfectly organized for peak performance.

Categories: ConfigurationGetting StartedPerformance

Performance Tales, Part 1: Why So Performant?

High school student and open source developer.

Categories: Performance

Track and display uptime of your blog

This article is about: How you can track and display the uptime of your eleventy-page using Uptime Kuma

Categories: DeploymentHow to...PerformanceRemote Data

Creating an OPML File for my Blogroll

How I'm creating OPML files for my blog, and pod, rolls so people can subscribe to all of the sites in one go

Categories: BloggingData CascadeDatesHow to...

Sending Webmentions after Deploying to Azure Static Web Apps

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

Categories: How to...Webmentions

Buttondown with 11ty on Netlify with GitHub

A look at how Fudge Sunday 🤔💡🤯🤓 newsletter gets made each week

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

Getting up to Speed with Eleventy: Config and Collections

Continuing his Eleventy tutorial, David Eastman shows how to configure the system, make use of templates, what collections are, and more.

Categories: CollectionsConfigurationLayouts

Super fast responsive image loading in Eleventy

Automatically optimise and serve images by type and size in Eleventy.

Categories: How to...ImagesPerformancePlugins

addRemoteData

An Eleventy plugin for fetching remote data and exposing the response as a global data variable.

Categories: PluginsRemote Data

Fetching Package Dependents from GitHub

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

Categories: Global DataHow to...Plugins

Added Monthly Posts Heatmap To The Site

I added a Posts per Month heatmap to the site's Statistics page today.

Categories: Plugins

Cloudflare Pages Cron Deploys

Scheduling static site deploys daily

Categories: BloggingDeploymentRemote DataWebmentions

How to automatically generate a new boilerplate-post with inquirer

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

Categories: BloggingFront MatterHow to...

How to host a 11ty-site on a Raspberry Pi

This article is about: How I am hosting my blog on a Raspberry Pi for almost no money

Categories: BloggingDeploymentHow to...

Pokédex Plugin for Eleventy

Plugin to add a Pokédex to your Eleventy website

Categories: Plugins

Cloudflare _redirects

Keeping old paths alive on the new site

Categories: ConfigurationDeploymentHow to...

Introduction to Eleventy, a Modern Static Website Generator

We show how Eleventy provides a nice flowing web dev process that works with existing technologies while steering you into good practices.

Categories: Getting Started

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.

Categories: FiltersGlobal DataHow to...Social MediaWebmentions

Adding Decap CMS to 11ty

One person is typing.

Categories: BloggingCMSConfigurationHow to...Plugins

Frontmatter Templates for New Blog Posts

In VS Code, using Snippets

Categories: BloggingFront 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.

Categories: ConfigurationDeploymentFront MatterHow to...Pagination

How I use Readwise Reader to post and share links.

Categories: BloggingHow to...Remote Data

Hiding Future Posts in Eleventy

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

Categories: BloggingConfigurationGlobal DataHow to...Plugins

Adding Site Search to Eleventy with pagefind-search

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

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...PluginsSearch

Right here, right now

A brief explanation of the way I built the "Right now" box on my homepage.

Categories: CollectionsData CascadeDatesHow to...Now Page

My 11ty Plugins

A list of plugins that I have written for the eleventy static site generator.

Categories: BloggingPlugins

I design and build websites, web applications, and data visualizations. I’ve been known to play fiddle from time to time and board games.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesLayoutsImage Galleries

Creating a complete RSS feed

This article is about: How I created a complete RSS-Feed

Categories: BloggingHow to...PluginsRSS

Minifying and compressing text files to reduce load

I am continuing to catch up with the technical basics for a modern‐day website. This time I add minification and compression to my 11ty build and the Caddy configuration.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Performance

New year, new blog!

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.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Deploy 11ty Site Using Rsync

Step-by-step guide for a deployment of your 11ty blog using rsync, npm deploy scripts and optimization for an efficient workflow.

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

I changed my mind, my CMS adventure

When I launched this site a few days ago I posted that I'd settled on Kirby as my CMS of choice. This wasn't exactly a spur of the moment thing, it's a system I've been dabbling with for quite a while.

Categories: CMSWhy Eleventy?

2023

Building robots.txt from a simple API endpoint

The online journal of Ashur Cabrera.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Remote Data

Deploying my website

From running my website for myself on my machine to hosting it publicly for everyone.

Categories: DatesDeployment

Automatic pre-processing of post images in Eleventy

A brief description of how I set up automatic image scaling in Eleventy.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesPlugins

Eleventy File List Plugin

Describes an Eleventy plugin I created that enables a site to display a list of downloadable files.

Categories: How to...Plugins

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

Categories: How to...Markdown

Another Approach to Webmentions in Eleventy

A quick and dirty way of using Eleventy Fetch and Liquid to display webmentions on your site.

Categories: How to...Webmentions

LastFM Recently Played with Eleventy

How I'm using Eleventy Fetch to display my recently played tracks from LastFM.

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Generating and Caching Open Graph Images with Eleventy

How I'm caching my open graph images with eleventy-plugin-og-image instead of generating them on every build

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesLayoutsSocial Media

Adding a GitHub Repository List to an Eleventy Site (part 2)

An extension of the previous post that shows how to add a list of GitHub repositories to this site using authenticated access to the GitHub REST API.

Categories: How to...Remote Data

December Updates to Eleventy Plugin Stats

I made some enhancements to my Eleventy Post Statistics plugin this month and this post describes the changes.

Categories: Plugins

Generating OG Images in Eleventy

Creating OG images for your Eleventy page is really easy with eleventy-plugin-og-image. I show you how!

Categories: ConfigurationPluginsSocial Media

Generating a static blog with Eleventy

From 0 to minimal blog using 11ty. I tell you the steps I took to create the minimal technical basis for this website's content.

Categories: BloggingCollectionsConfigurationInternationalizationLayouts

Adding a GitHub Repository List to an Eleventy Site

I decided to add a list of GitHub repositories to this site; not because the site needs it, but because I wanted to learn how to do it. I built a quick and easy approach (with limitations) and this post describes how I did it.

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Addition of Post Graphs to Stats page

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

Categories: BloggingPlugins

Adding a git based changelog in 11ty

How to add a changelog to your 11ty pages based on commits made to your site's git repository.

Categories: Data CascadeDatesFilters

Eleventy Post Graph Plugin

Generate Github-style post distribution graph for your blog posts in Eleventy

Categories: DatesHow to...Plugins

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

Categories: ConfigurationMarkdown

Migrating my site from NextJS to Eleventy

I recently migrated my website from NextJS to Eleventy.

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWebCWhy Eleventy?

Generating Open Graph Images in Eleventy

I added the og:media image tags yesterday, and the approach seems to work, so I'm going to share it in this post.

Categories: FiltersHow to...ImagesSocial Media

Calling All Courageous Canary Testers for Eleventy 3.0

Calling all courageous canary testers for Eleventy v3.0 — Eleventy

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Syntax highlighting code in Eleventy posts

A quick tutorial about how to enable syntax highlighting of code blocks in Eleventy posts

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...Plugins

Eleventy brings me joy

Ramblings about how and why I re-wrote this site completely soon after I first published it

Categories: Why Eleventy?

More Easily Use Design Tokens in Eleventy

Jan De Wilde, designer and web developer

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Let’s create a microblog with visual editing using Bookshop and Eleventy

Visual editing is table stakes for a modern content management workflow.

Categories: BloggingCMSCSS/SassConfigurationHow to...

Adding pagefind to my Eleventy personal site

I've been wanting to add search functionality to this site for a while. Pagefind made it simple.

Categories: How to...Search

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.

Categories: Data CascadeGlobal DataHow to...Remote Data

pagefind-search web component

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: How to...Search

Let's update the 11ty Edge Dark Mode Toggle

Using navigator.sendBeacon to toggle dark mode with 11ty Edge functions and Netlify

Categories: Edge FunctionsHow to...

Adding Music Previews to My Now Page

How I added a simple audio preview to my recent Spotify tracks.

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Static Feedback #11: All About Eleventy

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: Why Eleventy?YouTube

Static Feedback #11: All About Eleventy

Static Feedback #11: All about Eleventy — Eleventy

Categories: Why Eleventy?YouTube

DoubleShift

A small idea to check how many actors have been in both Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy turned into a much bigger thing

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Updating my Eleventy plugin tagCloud

A blog about web development, handy tutorials, quick rants, thoughts, and everything in between.

Categories: FiltersHow to...

Automating my site update with gitlab ci/cd

Where I describe a ci/cd configuration to deploy an 11ty blog to neocities

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

How I'm using the Fathom API to show a list of popular blogs posts in my Eleventy site

Categories: Data CascadeFiltersHow to...Remote Data

Generating the Firehose page on the 11tybundle site

Here's how the Firehose page of the 11tybundle.dev site is built.

Categories: CollectionsHow to...Remote Data

VSCode Pasting 11ty Images

Creating content locally like a hosted editor

Categories: How to...ImagesMarkdownPlugins

The tension and future of JAMstack

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Excluding Livestreams from the YouTube Data API in JavaScript

The YouTube API doesn't exclude past livestream videos from a playlist on its own. Here's how I filtered them.

Categories: How to...Remote DataYouTube

Using 11ty to bring back tag clouds

Tag clouds are a good way of seeing what kind of posts are floating around in your blog, lets bring them back

Categories: FiltersHow to...Plugins

Making a privacy respecting hit counter with Plausible analytics

Adding a hit counter with Plausible is private and quick using their aggregate API

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Migrating to Eleventy

renkotsuban's personal site and blog.

Categories: Getting StartedHow to...Migrating to Eleventy

A new technique for image optimization: SVG short circuiting

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: How to...ImagesPlugins

Hacking together a Tweekly.fm replacement

I mused the other day about wanting a replacement for Tweekly.fm which shut down due to Twitter's API changes and restrictions. In my case, the aim would be to make this compatible with Mastodon since that's where I've found myself spending the most time recently.

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Automatically optimize your images with Eleventy Image and CloudCannon

Websites are becoming increasingly visual and we're adding more and more image content to our sites — but these images need to be optimized.

Categories: ImagesPerformancePlugins

Highlighting the current category in Eleventy

Highlight current parent folder using the eleventy-navigation plugin

Categories: How to...Navigation

11ty Quick Tip: Minify inline JavaScript in WebC

For when you need to minify your WebC JavaScript

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...WebC

Using Wordpress as a headless CMS for Eleventy

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

Categories: CMSGlobal DataNavigationPaginationRemote DataSearch

From Jason 2.0 is an 11ty-powered digital garden with multiple plots

A digital garden for a physical meat bag.

Categories: Blogging

Default layouts in 11ty

Default layouts in 11ty

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Layouts

Measure your website's performance with Speedlify

Zach Leatherman told me, I could add Lighthouse scores to my site's footer. And so I did.

Categories: Performance

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.

Categories: CMSFront MatterHow to...

Eleventy Date-only Filter

I noticed recently that the site's stats page displayed the first and last post dates with time information even though the values only contained dates. I created a simple Eleventy Filter to trim them to date only with the format I wanted. This post shows how I did it.

Categories: DatesFilters

Pagination in a Javacsript template with Eleventy

Here I use a javascript template to generate json data files for selected categories of the 11tybundle.dev site.

Categories: How to...Pagination

Feedbin is rendering my RSS feed wrong, let's fix it!

Feedbin is removing the wrong elements, so let's make up for it on our own

Categories: FiltersHow to...RSS

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.

Categories: Data CascadeGlobal DataNetlifyRemote Data

Eleventy Excellent demo branches

Frontend developer and designer living in Madrid. I enjoy working with semantic HTML, vanilla Javascript and modern CSS.

Categories: BloggingConfigurationPagination

Better word counts and reading time in Eleventy (11ty)

A short tutorial on how to count words and determine the reading time using Eleventy.

Categories: How to...Plugins

A short tutorial on how to find backlinks (pages that link to the current page) using Eleventy

Categories: How to...Plugins

Cleaning up the 11ty config

The eleventy config file can get cluttered quickly so I cleaned mine up

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

I've switched to Eleventy: my thoughts

In this article, I will talk about why I switched, how I did it, and my thoughts about Eleventy as a new user.

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

Building a photography website

The setup for sharing my photo gallery.

Categories: How to...ImagesNavigationImage Galleries

Seven Million npm Downloads

Seven Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

Categories: Deployment

Clean Up Your Config File

MooseDog Studios - Where Convention Takes A Back Seat To Quality

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Migrating from Hugo to Eleventy (11ty)

This post describes my journey of migrating my blog from Hugo to Eleventy (11ty)

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

What I learned making top-level.dev

A single purpose site that gives you all of the top level domains in one handy list.

Categories: PaginationPlugins

TinaCMS + 11ty

Taking a deep dive into setting up a CMS for my static site with TinaCMS

Categories: BloggingCMSConfigurationDeploymentHow to...

Adding Social Preview Images To Our 11ty Blog

Twitter X recently removed headlines and descriptions from link previews, in the name of “esthetics.” Inspired by Steph Ango, while we try not to run our business on the whims of a social media platform, this change did push us into making a change we’ve been meaning to for awhile: adding social preview images for our blog posts. For example, this is now what you’ll see when you share this post:

Categories: How to...ImagesSocial Media

CloudCannon as a git based headless CMS for static site generators

Showcasing CloudCannon with 11ty as a headless CMS service

Categories: CMSHow to...

Migrating Blogger to Eleventy

Shifting sheetsj.com into the future

Categories: Migrating to EleventyHow to...Blogging

An approach to add a breadcrumb navigation to your Eleventy site, utilising the permalink structure

Categories: NavigationHow to...CSS/SassPermalinks

Eleventy and Storyblok - My perfect combination

In this article, I share why I choose this combination, hoping you also fall in love with them.

Categories: CMSWhy Eleventy?

Under the hood

LostInBrittany's tech blog, reborn... again...

Categories: WebCWhy Eleventy?

Eleventy

I love the idea of static site generators (sometimes known as SSGs or SSBs – static site builders). They eschew the complexity of modern CMSes such as Wordpress. Instead of server-side code and databases, a static site generator is a script that, when run, transforms a folder of text files and templates into HTML.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Making a lighthouse-fast website with a static site generator like 11ty

Creating an SSG flow to generate a highly optimized static website.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...ImagesCSS/SassSocial Media

What's that?

A short introduction why I started a blog and what you can expect here

Categories: Why Eleventy?

How to make a PWA out of your Eleventy site

Eleventy sites can be PWAs with two plugins. But there are strings attached.

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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.

Categories: BloggingCollectionsFront MatterHow to...Layouts

Eleventy components woes

So far so good, in part one we managed to do a very basic setup of a blog website sticking to just... Tagged with frontend, javascript, react, webdev.

Categories: WebC

How to Fix Eleventy Serverless Functions on Netlify

In a strange turn of events where I made zero changes to my code, my serverless functions suddenly stopped working, until now.

Categories: How to...NetlifyServerless

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...

Categories: BloggingHow to...Front MatterMarkdown

Headless kiosk application (with Kirby CMS)

Use Kirby and 11ty to generate a headless kiosk application hat works offline.

Categories: CMSHow to...Images

Delaying asset requests in Eleventy

Simulate slow connections on your Eleventy website using dev server middleware.

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...

Eleventy JSON Output

For a small Eleventy-based project I wanted to output an example.json file – stored in the data folder – in a nunjucks template. If you simply output the variable example you'll see the unhe…

Categories: How to...Filters

Scheduling Automatic Builds with Static Site Generators

Having a static site is great, but there could be times where you need to build your site on a schedule.

Categories: How to...Deployment

How to add a custom slugify filter to 11ty

During my recent blog migrations, I discovered the new slugify filter handles apostrophes differently. I'd prefer they were dropped. Here are the steps.

Categories: FiltersHow to...

Technical Architecture

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.

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Building a Blogroll with 11ty

How I created a blogroll with 11ty based off of Ben Myers solution

Categories: BloggingHow to...

Build a Blogroll with Eleventy

A step-by-step guide to adding a blogroll, complete with each blog's latest posts, to your Eleventy site.

Categories: Data CascadeRemote DataHow to...ConfigurationBlogging

Eleventy: A Paired Shortcode for Looping Video

Adding GIF-like looping video to my site.

Categories: How to...

Setting active state on navigation with Eleventy

In creating my portfolio site, I wanted to have dynamic elements that would add/remove classes based... Tagged with eleventy, 11ty, tutorial, portfolio.

Categories: How to...Navigation

Custom language syntax highlighting

Web development blog. The good, bad, and ugly (mostly bad and ugly)

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

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

Categories: Front MatterHow to...

Semi-automated hashtags for syndicated posts

I went out on a limb recently and decided to build a custom collection in Eleventy that aggregates my post tags and link tags (sourced from Matter). These tags then get appended to shared post or link titles when they're syndicated from my site.

Categories: CollectionsHow to...

Migrating blog to a static site generator - 11ty versus Astro

Benefits, downsides and the whole journey of migrating to an SSG.

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

Creating a Category Filter in Eleventy

Now I have a few posts, it would be good to have some way to narrow them down when looking for something specific.

Categories: FiltersHow to...Nunjucks/Macros

CloudCannon + Eleventy

Getting CloudCannon setup with your Eleventy project is easier than you think

Categories: DeploymentHow to...CollectionsConfiguration

Now page: grouping episodes of the same tv show

I made a minor update to how I'm normalizing TV data for display on my now page.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...Now Page

Flickerless dark mode in 11ty with Tailwind CSS

Just a couple of days ago, I was about to rebuild my portfolio website from scratch. As a typical web... Tagged with webdev, javascript, tutorial, html.

Categories: CSS/SassConfigurationHow to...

Drying up now page templates and normalizing data in Eleventy

My now page consists of a number of similar sections — some bespoke text, a number of media grids and lists. The text is repeated once, the lists are easily templated out in Liquid.js and the media grids are all quite similar.

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11ty draft posts - Set up a draft system in 11ty

Setting a post to draft in 11ty while writing

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Drafts

Webmentions in Eleventy

There comes a time in every Eleventy blog's life where the author must write a post about implementing webmentions. Here is mine.

Categories: How to...Remote DataWebmentions

Migrer de Ghost à 11ty (Migrating from Ghost to 11ty)

Journal personnel de GoOz, avec des mots petits et grands.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Fun With Front Matter: Part 3 - Handling Edits

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

Categories: How to...Front Matter

Fun With Front Matter: Part 2 - Follow-ups

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

Categories: Front MatterHow to...

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

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Displaying now playing data with matching emoji using Netlify edge functions and Eleventy

My site is built using 11ty and is rebuilt once an hour. These frequent rebuilds accomplish a few things, notably updating webmention data and keeping my now page current.

Categories: How to...Edge FunctionsNow Page

Eleventy Style Guide Generator - Step by Step buide adding to an existing site

Step by Step guide to adding the Eleventy Style Guide Generator to an existing site. Details on how to avoid needing WebC or Design Tokens included.

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Website rewrite and switching to Notion as CMS

This website served me well for almost 5 years with minor improvements, tweaks and hacks. Now, it was time for a total rewrite and upgrading my stack and tools.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

How I built my Now page

YouTube video

Categories: How to...Remote DataYouTube

I Rebuilt My Blog and Didn't Write About It

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

Categories: BloggingWhy Eleventy?

Compiling CSS with Eleventy

A list of different options for compiling CSS with Eleventy

Categories: CSS/SassAsset Pipelines

Pulling WordPress Post Categories & Tags Into Eleventy

Step by step guide to gathering post categories and tags from the WordPress REST API for better filtering and discoverability in an Eleventy blog.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Migrating from WordPress to 11ty: Enhancing Website Performance and Control

Discover the benefits of using 11ty for static website generation, including improved performance, simplicity, and control over your website. Take your online presence to new heights with 11ty.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Refactoring My Static Site in 2023

When I last redesigned tylersticka.com, I was tired of my content management system. I already authored posts with Markdown and HTML, my…

Categories: Why Eleventy?

classnames

An Eleventy plugin that joins truthy, deduplicated values into a single, compact string for use in an HTML element's class attribute.

Categories: PluginsHow to...CSS/Sass

Build your own 11ty starter

If you want to build a website quickly then 11ty is a great tool. Here is how I set up my starter pack to get me up and running in a few minutes.

Categories: How to...ConfigurationGetting Started

Eleventy Category Images

Describes a solution I implemented in this site to add Category-specific header images to posts. I modified my eleventy-generate-category-pages module to generate additional properties for the header images and some shortcodes to add the image and attribution to the site's pages.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Eleventy Style Guide Generator with WebC Component Support

The simplicity and speed of Eleventy with the organization of a self documenting design system. Style guide generator that incorporates design tokens, fluid typography, and WebC components.

Categories: WebC

Interactive HTML Code Demos in Eleventy

With eleventy-plugin-code-demo, you can easily add interactive HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code demos to your Eleventy site using Markdown.

Categories: How to...

Use TailwindCSS with Eleventy Static Site Generator

A guide to using Tailwindcss and Eleventy with auto reloading feature. You will also learn to add DaisyUI in conjunction with TailwindCSS.

Categories: CSS/SassConfigurationHow to...

A Future of Themes with CSS Container Style Queries

One way to implement themes on a website with style queries

Categories: CSS/SassAsset Pipelines

WebC Declarative Shadow DOM Slot Workarounds

A cheeky hack to make slot elements work as expected in 11ty's WebC framework.

Categories: WebCHow to...

Sorting and Dating 11ty Posts by Name

Organize and automate your 11ty blog's post structure with ISO dates and some quick JavaScript.

Categories: DatesHow to...

Formatting Obsidian markdown to render in Eleventy

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

Categories: How to...Markdown

Deploying an 11ty Site to GitHub Pages Using GitHub Actions

The last time I wrote about deploying to GitHub Pages, it was essentially a tutorial on how to use Travis CI for deployment to GitHub Pages. Travis, unfortunately, discontinued their free plan b...

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

Blog comments via Mastodon

After half a year of pondering, I finally wrote a bit of code to add comments to my blog via Mastodon replies.

Categories: How to...Social Media

Good news about CloudCannon and Eleventy

Not long after receiving a short-sighted shafting, my favorite JavaScript-based SSG and its creator wind up in good and friendly hands.

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Bigg Announcement: Eleventy and CloudCannon

Big Announcement: Eleventy and CloudCannon! — Eleventy

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Now Page: Automatically Syncing My Now Pages

How I automatically sync my now page with omg.lol

Categories: How to...Remote DataNow Page

i11g - Updating an Immutable Blog

Using IPFS, 11ty, and dAppling to create an easy to update blog hosted on IPFS.

Categories: BloggingGetting Started

Build a Blog with Eleventy (11ty) and Webiny Headless CMS

In this tutorial, we will build a blog site with Eleventy (11ty) and Webiny Headless CMS. We will look at how to set up Webiny and consume that data in a Eleventy (11ty) project.

Categories: BloggingCMSGetting StartedHow to...

The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023)

The Eleventy Community Survey Results (2023) — Eleventy

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Added Content Stats to Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics

This post describes some new enhancements to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin.

Categories: Plugins

From Nunjucks to Liquid

Changing the template language from nunjucks to Liquid in my eleventy project

Categories: Nunjucks/Macros

I took some time last week to build out a popular posts widget after seeing Zach's implementation using Google Analytics.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Using PDFs with Algolia and Adobe PDF Extract API

A look at using Adobe's PDF Extract API to integrate with Algolia's Search APIs

Categories: How to...Search

Add table of content in Eleventy markdown blog

First, install the markdown-it-anchor plugin to add ids to heading elements. Then use the eleventy-plugin-toc plugin to generate the table of content.

Categories: BloggingHow to...Markdown

Use TailwindCSS with Eleventy Static Site Generator

If you are building a blog with Eleventy and want to add TailwindCSS for styling, then this is the... Tagged with javascript, tailwindcss, css, eleventy.

Categories: CSS/Sass

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).

Categories: Front MatterHow to...

Updated Eleventy Post Stats Plugin

I published an update to my Eleventy Plugin Post Statistics plugin this morning and this article explains what changed.

Categories: How to...Debugging

Solving a date display issue in 11ty templates

I was getting the full UTC code and only needed the short date without time

Categories: Dates

How I set up lastmod date in my 11ty xml sitemap

Google now want an accurate lastmod date in the xml sitemap. Here is how I set it up in my 11ty site.

Categories: How to...Configuration

Eleventy Filter Parameters

How to add parameters to an Eleventy filter.

Categories: FiltersHow to...

Six Million NPM Downloads!

Six Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

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Choosing a jamstack static site generator

Choosing a Jamstack Static Site Generator

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Now page update: poster art for shows and movies

Combine multiple API calls and eleventy-fetch to enrich Trakt metadata with poster art.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Introducing: 11ty with reasonable defaults

TL;DR Initialize your 11ty projects with reasonable defaults: npm install -g yo npm... Tagged with showdev, webdev, productivity.

Categories: Configuration

Generating CSS with PostCSS and eleventy.before

I'm trying to keep the setup of my personal projects as simple as possible. Today, we're looking at how CSS is generated.

Categories: CSS/SassConfigurationHow to...

Fetching webmentions with Netlify and Eleventy Edge

Sadly, I'm not too good at documenting what I'm sometimes building in the little free time that I have. At the end of last year, I implemented an interesting feature on this site, but never wrote about it.

Categories: Social MediaDeploymentHow to...

Displaying listening data from Apple Music using MusicKit.js

Up until now my now page has sourced music data from Last.fm (and may well again). But, in the interest in experimenting a bit, I've tried my hand at rewriting that part of the page to leverage data from Apple Music, using MusicKit.js instead.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Adding game cover art to my /now page

How I'm using Eleventy-Fetch and the Steam API to fetch recently played games, the games cover art and store page URL to display on my /now page.

Categories: ImagesRemote DataHow to...Now Page

Creating Bootstrap WebC Components in Eleventy

Using WebC to make working with Bootstrap simpler.

Categories: WebCHow to...

WordPress to Eleventy - Part 1, The Why

For years my personal website used WordPress, now it's using Eleventy and this is why

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

WordPress to Eleventy - Part 2, The How

For years my personal website used WordPress, now it's using Eleventy and this is how I migrated it

Categories: Migrating to EleventyHow to...

Eleventy tag filter

Web development blog. The good, bad, and ugly (mostly bad and ugly)

Categories: Filters

Eleventy tag filter

Web development blog. The good, bad, and ugly (mostly bad and ugly)

Categories: FiltersHow to...

Bookshop 11ty Guide

Learn how to build a live-editable website using Eleventy and Bookshop on CloudCannon.

Categories: How to...Getting Started

Fixed Category Page Generation

I figured out how to get my Eleventy Generate Category Pages module working in an Eleventy build process.

Categories: Pagination

File Last Modified Is Available

MooseDog Studios - Where Convention Takes A Back Seat To Quality

Categories: DatesHow to...

Integrating JSON-LD Into Your Eleventy Pages

MooseDog Studios - Where Convention Takes A Back Seat To Quality

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

From ICS to JSON: surfacing anticipated albums

I use MusicHarbor by Marcos Tanaka to track upcoming albums from my favorite artists (typically by syncing my last.fm data with the app.) When I see something new that I want to add to my collection I throw it on a calendar creatively titled Albums.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Using Goodreads Data in Eleventy - Update

A followup to my previous article on Goodreads and Eleventy

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Fast and Easy CSS Revisioning

MooseDog Studios - Where Convention Takes A Back Seat To Quality

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Optimizing for performance with Eleventy

In the interest of over-engineering my personal site I've gone out of my way to optimize it for performance.

Categories: PerformanceHow to...

Using Goodreads Data in Eleventy

An example of using exported Goodreads data in an Eleventy site.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

11ty image shortcode best practice

Quick reminder to myself about how to use the 11ty shortcode for images

Categories: ImagesHow to...MarkdownShortcodes

Generating Eleventy Category Pages Inside Eleventy Build

After my announcement of my command-line utility for generating Eleventy Paginated Category pages, I learned how to do this inside of Eleventy and need some help finishing it for general use.

Categories: PaginationHow to...

Interactive demos inside articles

This article touches how I embed interactive code demos into my blog articles.

Categories: How to...

Converting a Drupal site to 11ty

Samuel J. Huskey's Personal Website

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Eleventy Paginated Category Pages

Something I wanted to do with this site, but wasn't supported by Eleventy, is generate paginated pages of content for each category. This article explains how I solved this problem and how you can use it for your Eleventy site(s).

Categories: PaginationHow to...

Adding client side search to a static site

Creating a site-search function that doesn't rely on external services

Categories: SearchHow to...

Migrating This Site from Joomla To Eleventy

Describes the process I used to migrate a 14 year old Joomla site (this one) to Eleventy and the tools I created to simplify the process (that you can use in your Joomla to Eleventy migrations).

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Eleventy Displaying Posts from Another Site

I wanted to pull the most recent articles from an Eleventy site into another Eleventy site, so I wrote this article to explain how I did it.

Categories: How to...Remote Data

My plugin for markdown-it: codewrap

My solution to adding "Copy" to markdown code blocks (and other things)

Categories: MarkdownHow to...

Eleventy by Example, by Bryan Robinson

A review of "Eleventy by Example", by Bryan Robinson

Categories: Getting Started

I hooked up Eleventy to WordPress API

I’ve got some plans for this site. The main thing I want to do is bring my music collection into my main site, instead of having a subdomain. That thing has been a “prototype” for over 2 years now… The problem is that site uses Notion as its data source. I really like managing my […]

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Remove trailing slash on 11ty S3 hosted sites using Cloudfront function

How to rewrite the Cloudfront request so trailing slashes are redirected to the non-trailing slash URI using a Cloudfront function.

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

Generating Post Batches in Eleventy

This article describes a Node command-line utility I created to generate batches of new posts in an Eleventy site.

Categories: How to...

Cloudflare Pages error with 11ty build

I had an issue with a build failing on Cloudflare Pages and this is how I fixed it

Categories: Deployment

Blogging on the Jamstack with Netlify & Eleventy

Looking to create a Headless Blog using the Jamstack? Here are all the steps you need to follow to build your own Jamstack-based blog using Eleventy and Netlify

Categories: DeploymentNetlify

Automating Eleventy Post Creation

Describes a utility I created to automate creating a new post in an Eleventy site.

Categories: How to...

Eleventy Site Statistics

I wanted to add a statistics page to this site, so I created an Eleventy plugin to do it. This article describes how to use the plugin in your Eleventy site.

Categories: How to...

The Need for Speed: Why Eleventy Leaves Bundlers Behind

Static site generator Eleventy recently released version 2.0, which includes support for web component files and a new dev server.

Categories: PerformanceWhy Eleventy?

Fetching & caching data from Airtable in my 11ty site

Using the Airtable.js library and Eleventy Fetch

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Eleventy (11ty), Vite, Tailwind, and Alpine.js – Rapid static site starter framework

In this post, I'll share my go-to setup for rapidly developing static sites and landing pages where a full CMS may be overkill. We'll use Eleventy, Vite, Tailwind, and Alpine.js.

Categories: Getting Started

Now page update: favorite articles from Matter

I dropped in a quick update to my now page to display the 5 most recent articles from my favorites feed in Matter.

Categories: How to...

Book Release: Eleventy by Example – Learn 11ty with 5 in-depth projects

Oh! Hey! I wrote a book. Fancy that! It's, of course, all about 11ty.

Categories: Getting Started

Meta Description and Keywords in Eleventy

This article describes how I added HTML Keywords to an Eleventy site.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Eleventy Extra Spaces in Category List

I noticed that the category lists on this site had an extra space before and after the comma and set out to fix it.

Categories: How to...

Unit Test 11ty Pages With Vitest and Typescript

Unit testing 11ty JavaScript templates with Vitest and Typescript

Categories: DebuggingHow to...

Eleventy Enhanced Pagination Navigation Buttons

After adding Previous and Next buttons to paginated pages in this site, I figured out a clean way to add First and Last buttons as well and this post describes how I did it.

Categories: NavigationHow to...

Pseudorandom numbers in Eleventy

Create deterministic series of random numbers for generative arts

Categories: How to...

How To Craft a Stylish Static Website with Eleventy (11ty)

Learn how to use Eleventy to craft a stunning and functional static portfolio website without needing a server-side language or database.

Categories: Getting StartedHow to...

Automated workflows for websites

In this article, I'm writing about automated workflows I added to this blog.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Building and Automating My Now Page

How I built and automated my now page with Eleventy and APIs.

Categories: How to...Remote DataNow Page

11ty 4tw!

Since 1998 I’m developing websites and software, do logo design and occasional classic print design. This place is for sharing my unstoppable love and fascination for everything interactive and beyond.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Extending 11ty’s page variable

I’ve had my eye on Astro, so I thought I’d take it for a spin by re-building this here website. I stuck with 11ty in the end for a variety of reasons, but th...

Categories: How to...WebC

How Jampack optimizes our Eleventy website and improves performance

Jampack is a post-processing tool that takes the output of any static site generator and optimizes it for user experience.

Categories: Performance

Wrapping Emoji in your 11ty build

Wrap emoji with accessible and semantic HTML, without breaking your pages

Categories: How to...

A New LitLab Website

The Stanford Literary Lab is a research collective that applies computational criticism, in all its forms, to the study of literature.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

SVG Icon Sprites in Eleventy

Use SVG icons in Eleventy and only ship the code you need.

Categories: How to...

WebC First Impressions

Thoughts from my first attempt at understanding the new WebC framework from 11ty

Categories: WebC

CSS Naked Day 2023

In which I describe what I did to prepare for CSS Naked Day for 2023 and ideally every year beyond it by using edge functions.

Categories: Edge Functions

webc-starter-kit (Github repo)

A starter project for Eleventy (11ty) using WebC as a main template langage. Also includes opiniated assets processing and a few more bells and whistles. - solution-loisir/webc-starter-kit

Categories: WebC

Jan De Wilde, designer and web developer

Categories: How to...MarkdownAccessibilityPermalinks

A WebC-focused YouTube playlist

YouTube video

Categories: YouTube

How Stable is Eleventy? (YouTube)

YouTube video

Categories: YouTube

Working with CloudCannon and Eleventy - My Experience

My experience testing the CloudCannon CMS experience with Eleventy.

Categories: CMS

3 Methods for scoped styles in web components that work everywhere

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: CSS/SassWebC

Moving from WordPress to 11ty

After 17 years with WordPress, it's time for something different. Here's how I migrated 500 posts to a static site generator.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Builder.io's Partytown with 11ty

Exploring builder.io's partytown and integrating it with 11ty! It is nothing but a library which uses web workers to separately execute third party scripts.

Categories: How to...

wp-to-11ty - export WordPress XML and convert it to Eleventy (Github repo)

Convert a WordPress XML export to a new 11ty Blog. Contribute to jmhobbs/wp-to-11ty development by creating an account on GitHub.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

WebC Updates in Eleventy - Looping

A look at another new WebC feature - looping

Categories: WebC

GitLab CI Pipeline for Eleventy

A detailed breakdown of the GitLab CI pipeline used for this blog, which is built with Eleventy.

Categories: Deployment

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 regexes.

Categories: Markdown

Awesome Algolia Updates (and some fixes here...)

News about Algolia's free tier changes and some fixes here.

Categories: How to...

Easy Date and Time Formatting with Luxon

Two great tastes that taste great together

Categories: Dates

Another Eleventy content syndication path

After posting and discussing my post from yesterday with Nicolas Hoizey I decided to explore his suggested path and explore using a GitHub action to handle posts to Mastodon, rather than Make.

Categories: Social Media

WebC Updates in Eleventy

Description of updates to WebC

Categories: WebC

Lazy select-based pagination in Eleventy

I've relaunched, rebuilt and rewritten my personal blog more times than I can count, and I've had a trail of posts I've never fully migrated at each turn. This weekend, while relaxing and watching movies I ported them into Eleventy and, in doing so, found that the pagination implementation I was using didn't scale well with the number of pages I added.

Categories: Pagination

Automate and syndicate content from Eleventy to Mastodon

I've discussed building a now page using Eleventy, but I also syndicate a subset of that content out to Mastodon using @11ty/eleventy-activity-feed and Make.

Categories: Social Media

Blogging with Eleventy

Adding a blog to this website (which you are now reading)

Categories: How to...Blogging

New Blog Same as the Old Blog

Details about my site rebuild.

Categories: BloggingConfiguration

The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 2)

Evolution is a continuous phenomenon.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Migrating to Eleventy from AnchorCMS

How I migrated my old blog content from a defunct CMS to Eleventy.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

.env files in Eleventy

The Eleventy docs recommend the dotenv package for working with .env files, but I've found dotenv-flow to be a bit more useful inasmuch as support for .env* file patterns make development more convenient.

Categories: How to...

Spellchecking my blog posts with cSpell

A little magic to help catch typos in your blog posts.

Categories: How to...Blogging

Syncing Letterboxd Data to Markdown Files

Owning my Letterboxd data.

Categories: Remote Data

What’s New in Eleventy 2: A Great SSG Just Got Better

Get up to speed with Eleventy 2.0, a popular, highly configurable SSG that's packed with new features to make web development even easier.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Scheduled Eleventy builds on Vercel with cron-triggered GitHub actions

In an effort to get away from client-side Javascript and embrace Eleventy for what it is (a static site generator), I've dropped my social-utils instance offline and my now-playing track display on my home page that still relied on it.

Categories: Deployment

Automating Algolia Index Updates

I added support for Algolia search to an Eleventy site, and this post describes a utility I created to help Eleventy site owners to automate updating their Algolia indices outside of the build process.

Categories: SearchHow to...

Building my /now page using Eleventy

As part of my commitment to writing about things I've written in other frameworks in Eleventy, this is how I re-engineered my /now page in Eleventy.

Categories: Remote DataNow Page

Smart Incremental Rebuilds With eleventyImport

Ensure templates that display content from collections, like a blog index, rebuild when associated collection content changes.

Categories: How to...

Time to move on from Nunjucks?

Here are some points to consider about how you should build and maintain Eleventy sites going forward.

Categories: Nunjucks/Macros

Full-stack Web Apps Without React

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.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Webmentions in Eleventy

In the interest of continuing to repeat myself I'm writing, once again, about adding webmentions to a blog.

Categories: Webmentions

A small Eleventy plugin I built at the end of February 2023.

Categories: Plugins

Displaying Build Details in an Eleventy Site

I leveraged some old code to add the ability to capture build details and save them with a project. In this post, I describe the utility I created that allows you to easily display build information in an Eleventy site.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

The evolution of my CSS pipeline in Eleventy (part 1)

Handling CSS in Eleventy has been an evolutionary experience.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Alphabetising Glossary Terms

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

Categories: BloggingFiltersHow to...

Should I upgrade to Eleventy 2.0?

Eleventy 2.0 was released at the beginning of February. It has some major new features. Is it worthwhile to upgrade? Is it painful to upgrade?

Categories: How to...

Using the Codeberg CI

Using Codeberg CI to build 11ty based static sites to push to Codeberg Pages

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

Rewriting the Eleventy Home Page in WebC

YouTube video

Categories: WebCYouTube

Hiding drafts and future posts in Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: How to...ConfigurationDrafts

From Jekyll & Hugo to Eleventy

HOW DO YOU DO, PLEASE STATE YOUR PROBLEM _

Categories: DatesMigrating to Eleventy

Five Million npm Downloads

Five Million npm Downloads! — Eleventy

Categories: YouTube

Running Eleventy Serverless On AWS Lambda@Edge

Eleventy is great. It’s a static site generator written in JavaScript, for “Fast Builds and even...

Categories: ServerlessHow to...

Font Subsetting with Eleventy.js

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

Categories: Asset PipelinesConfigurationHow to...Plugins

Supporting PDF Embeds in an Eleventy WebC Component

Adding support for the Adobe PDF Embed with an Eleventy WebC Component

Categories: How to...

Sass in Eleventy, with versioning

Adding support for code.scss/code files, complete with content hashes.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Slotted content in Eleventy

Fill slots in an HTML layout with chunks of Markdown content.

Categories: How to...

Upgrading to Eleventy 2.0.0

A step-by-step for an incredibly easy process, again.

Categories: How to...

Process CSS or Sass With LightningCSS

Use these plugins or code snippets to make CSS a first-class templating language in Eleventy and add processing with LightningCSS and/or Sass.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Update to My Eleventy Blog Guide

An update regarding my Eleventy blog guide.

Categories: Getting StartedBlogging

Extracting and using Critical CSS on my Eleventy site

This week I made some enhancements to extracting and implementing Critical CSS on my website that runs on Eleventy. Let's delve into its workings and features.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Internationalization with Eleventy 2.0 and Netlify

Along with a lightning talk at TheJam.dev 2023, I explain how internationalization works with Eleventy 2.0, building out a simple starter project.

Categories: Internationalization

Filtering tags within Eleventy.js collections

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: FiltersCollectionsHow to...

Combining 11ty Static Site Generator with ASP.NET Core

Combining 11ty Static Site Generator with ASP.NET Core for maximum awesomeness.

Categories: Asset PipelinesConfiguration

Farewell Netlify Large Media, Welcome eleventy-img

Not too complex once I had finished making my mistakes.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Eleventy Collection Schemas

Use this 11ty plugin to enforce a typed frontmatter schema for templates within an Eleventy collection.

Categories: Collections

New year, new me, new blog

I changed the design of my blog for the third time since its start in 2020.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Take your 11ty build from 1 second to 2 minutes by generating OG images

I tried to generate OG images during build and it ended up taking a long time

Categories: Social MediaImages

Building a Mastodon Bot Listing Page in Eleventy

How I built a page to show off my Mastodon bots.

Categories: How to...Social Media

Moving my site from Jekyll to Eleventy - Part II

What I learned along the way..

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Adding a Table of Contents to dynamic content in 11ty

Code that introduces automated anchor links to headlines in Eleventy dynamic-loaded content. Improves accessibility and makes content sharing easier!

Categories: How to...

Custom date formatting in Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: Dates

Rebuilding 11ty on a schedule

Automate the deployment of a website using Netlify and GitHub Actions at a specific time.

Categories: Deployment

Setup GitLab Review Apps with Eleventy

A technique to setup GitLab Review Apps for an Eleventy site.

Categories: ConfigurationDeploymentHow to...

Using Rmarkdown with Eleventy

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

Categories: ConfigurationFront MatterHow 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.

Using shiki with 11ty

Shiki is a really nice syntax highlighter that I already wrote about. This is just a short post to show you how to use it with eleventy.

Categories: How to...

Updating webmentions on a static site

When I started using Webmention on this site (more than 5 years ago!), I was building the site on my local computer, and uploading the build result on my hosting with `rsync`. I've moved to Cloudflare Pages 6 months ago, which means webmentions where updated only when I pushed new content to GitHub. Here's how I fixed that.

Categories: How to...Webmentions

Code for copying code: the Eleventy edition

Here’s a workaround for including “copy” buttons in code blocks built by Prism-based syntax highlighting in Eleventy.

Categories: PluginsHow to...

Using JavaScript in a WebC Component

Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.

Categories: WebC

Rebuilding a PHP App using Isomorphic JavaScript with Eleventy & Netlify

Back in the early days of the iPhone, I created Tipr, a tip calculator that always produces a palindrome total. This is an overview of the minimal work I did to make it a modern web app that can run without a traditional back-end.

Categories: Edge FunctionsNetlify

Website re-platform and a light redesign for 2023

Time for a site rebuild and this time I went with a static site generator

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Which SSGs I recommend

Here’s a recap of my thoughts about the best tools for building and maintaining personal websites.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

A Step-by-Step Guide to Sorting Eleventy Global Data Files by Date

Step-by-step guide to date-based global data sorting in Eleventy, including automated by file last modified and manually via a data property

Categories: How to...

Adding tag list with post count to Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: CollectionsHow to...

Improving Syntax Highlighting

Adding syntax highlighting to a blog is hard, doing it in a good way is hard. I recently switched my setup away from @11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight to a custom solution based on Shiki.

Categories: How to...

eleventy-cache-webmentions v1.1.5

Cache webmentions using eleventy-fetch and make them available to use in collections, layouts, pages, etc. in Eleventy.

Categories: Webmentions

11ty, nunjucks, tag counts

Using nunjucks to get the count of the posts for a tag.

Categories: Nunjucks/MacrosHow to...

Adding posts by tag to Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: How to...

Additional Webmention Resources

Some more links and tools related to webmentions

Categories: Webmentions

Notes on Migrating a Wordpress Site to Eleventy

Some helpful notes and tools for migrating an existing Wordpress site to Eleventy

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Adding Webmentions to Your Site

Some notes on what webmentions are and how I implemented them for this site

Categories: Webmentions

Adding a basic search to a static site

A simple solution to having a search feature on a static website

Categories: SearchHow to...

Adding webmentions to your static blog

The portfolio and blog of Jan Monschke

Categories: WebmentionsHow to...

How to programmatically add tags to posts in 11ty

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

Categories: BloggingCollectionsConfigurationHow to...Plugins

Adding dynamic read time to Eleventy.js

JavaScript software development tips, strategies for salary negotiation, and other helpful advice for navigating software as a career.

Categories: How to...

Escaping Jekyll, and moving to Eleventy

Articles, information, and tutorials on development, programming, technology, science.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Quick WebC Tip

How to enable better color coding for your WebC templates

Categories: WebC

Quick Tip for Eleventy's WebC support

YouTube video

Categories: WebCYouTube

Adding stub posts

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

Categories: BloggingHow to...

Building A Membership Site With 11ty

Do you want to offer exclusive content, but also have full control over the platform you use? With the power combo of Eleventy, Netlify, and Supabase, we’ll create an authenticated membership site, no frameworks required.

Categories: How to...Edge Functions

Using the Airtable API with Eleventy Collections

A detailed guide to building a reading list with the Airtable API and templated Eleventy data. Includes general guidance regarding personal access tokens and environment variables, relevant to most API projects.

Categories: Remote DataCollections

Website redesign with 11ty!

I have rewritten my website to utilize 11ty, and it was a lot of fun

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

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

Categories: BloggingConfigurationHow to...Markdown

Eleventy (11ty) - A simple and powerful static site generateor

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

Categories: Why Eleventy?

External Asset Pipeline with Eleventy

I like to use NPM scripts for my asset pipeline instead of using Eleventy to generate assets and orchestrate everything. The latest release of Eleventy Dev Server makes that approach both easy to implement and quite performant.

Categories: Asset PipelinesConfiguration

Trying out CSS Grid’s new Masonry Layout, with a PhotoSwipe lightbox

Categories: ImagesImage Galleries

A Beginner's Guide to Eleventy - part two

Second part of a beginner's guide to eleventy

Categories: Getting Started

Adding statistics to 11ty

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

Categories: BloggingFilters

Post previews with Ghost, Eleventy & Netlify

A while back, I updated my Eleventy plugin for Ghost so you get more data from your Ghost instance, including the ability to retrieve draft posts. Here's how I used it to preview draft posts using Eleventy and Netlify.

Categories: CMSDeployment

Static Mastodon toots in Eleventy: the Tailwind CSS edition

For users of my favorite JS-based SSG, here’s an Eleventy version of the Tailwind-based toots-embedding shortcode I offered yesterday.

Categories: CSS/SassSocial Media

Using Eleventy filters in Directory Computed Data

Eleventy Computed Data makes it easy to reuse your filters outside of your templates.

Categories: ConfigurationData CascadeFilters

Automating Advent Calendar with Github Actions and Eleventy

Last year, I build an advent calendar using Eleventy and Github Actions. In this blog post, I tell more about the progress and the result.

Categories: How to...Dates

Adding Tina CMS to 11ty

Looking for a NetlifyCMS alternative to commit changes to the same repo, I stumbled upon TinaCMS

Categories: CMSHow to...

Plop in Automation

How I use npm to automate the inner workings of my website and within other projects

Categories: How to...

A Beginner's Guide to Eleventy - part one

First part of a beginner's guide to eleventy

Categories: Getting Started

Kevin is a designer based in the UK specialising in digital product design, design systems and all things web.

Categories: Nunjucks/MacrosHow to...

Hello 2023

Maybe I'm writing again.

Categories: How to...Images

Better Looking Dates in Eleventy: Jan 01 2023 --> Jan 1st 2023

By default, the default readableDate in Eleventy will output dates like: Dec 03 2022. Let's do better... Tagged with eleventy, tutorial.

Categories: DatesHow to...

Using PageFind with Eleventy for Search

How to use PageFind to implement search for an Eleventy site

Categories: How to...Search

23 of the best Eleventy Themes (Starters) for 2023

There's a huge range of free starter themes available for the Eleventy static site generator.

Categories: Getting Started

Configure Eleventy to Host a Custom Mastodon Alias

Ramblings on bacon, drawing, and technology

Categories: Social Media

An Introductory Guide to Eleventy

Here’s an introductory guide to Eleventy. Learn about its benefits, uses, and getting started. Host your 11ty static site with fast and secure Tiiny.host.

Categories: Getting StartedWhy Eleventy?

2022

Building a Podcast Site with Eleventy

Moving Ruminate's site from Simplecast to Eleventy

Categories: How to...

Importing external components in WebC via NPM

The online journal of Ashur Cabrera.

Categories: WebC

Fixing long start-up times of the Eleventy dev server

Running Browsersync without internet connection.

Categories: DebuggingHow to...

Drafts and timestamp-based publishing in Eleventy

Exercise more control over when, and if, your posts appear.

Categories: DatesHow to...Drafts

11 Top Eleventy Blog Themes (Starters) in 2023

This article takes a top ten list of blog themes and turns it up to eleven(ty).

Categories: Getting StartedBlogging

Eleventy 2.0 & WebC

I look at my experiences trying out Eleventy and its new Web Component language, webc.

Categories: WebC

Pulling WordPress Content into Eleventy

Composable Architecture Powered by WordPress part 2 – How to pull content from a WordPress RESTful API into an Eleventy generated static site.

Categories: Remote Data

Using Fontsource With 11ty

For quite some time, I was searching for a way to self host google fonts because the google fonts API's network request increased the render blocking time more than I expected.

Categories: How to...

Adding Download Support in an Eleventy Site

An example of adding download resources to an Eleventy site

Categories: How to...

Letting Eleventy Schedule Its Own Builds

Until recently, I've been using GitHub Actions to trigger builds on my website, but this approach meant that builds for the site were only run once a day and that I couldn't schedule specific times for posts to go live. In February of this year, Netlify announced Scheduled Functions, and one of the use cases that I'd seen mentioned was scheduling builds.

Categories: Deployment

New Eleventy features, a new theme, and full Eleventy support

We are announcing full CloudCannon support for Eleventy, one of the most popular (and fast) static site generators in the world.

Categories: Getting Started

Using Airtable as a Jamstack CMS

Using the Airtable hybrid spreadsheet-database app as a CMS "back-end" for a personal portfolio Jamstack website.

Categories: Remote Data

A new website: now on Eleventy!

Announcing the new version of my personal website - this time around I built it in Eleventy.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Exploring WebC

How to setup and create your first WebC component in a Nunjucks 11ty

Categories: WebC

Organizing the Eleventy config file

Eleventy lets you create a file called eleventy.js to configure the SSG to your own project’s needs. This article is all about organizing your config file!

Categories: Configuration

Eleventy asset pipeline: precompiled assets without Gulp

Precompiled Sass and JS files that become part of the source folder.

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...

Relational data in Eleventy

A pattern for handling many-to-many relationships.

Categories: Data Cascade

CSS and JavaScript as first-class citizens in Eleventy

When building websites on Eleventy, we often have to decide how to deal with the CSS and JavaScript post-processing. Recently I came up with a solution, finally making CSS and JS first-class citizens in Eleventy for me.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Eleventy: Integrate PostCSS and Tailwind CSS

Daniel Zenzes

Categories: CSS/Sass

A Bare-Bones Eleventy Template for Glitch

A quick template for using Eleventy on Glitch

Categories: How to...

11ty Second 11ty (YouTube playlist, 8 videos)

YouTube video

Categories: YouTube

Building a YouTube Embed Web Component (both vanilla and WebC flavored)

A look at a simple YouTube embed component built in traditional web components and Eleventy's WebC plugin.

Categories: YouTubeWebC

Support External Articles in an Eleventy Blog

Adding a method to list external articles in an Eleventy blog

Categories: How to...

Some Options for Timing Pages in Eleventy

Some experiments timing slow pages with Eleventy

Categories: PerformanceHow to...Debugging

From Notion to Eleventy

Mostly frontend, sometimes art

Categories: Remote Data

Adding a Stripe cart to a static Eleventy website with LiveState: Part 1

We solve digital problems through custom software development and design for the web—apps, mobile, desktop and devices.

Categories: How to...

Quick LiquidJS + Eleventy Example - All Posts

Some quick things I learned about Liquid when building an "All Posts" page.

Categories: How to...Dates

Eleventy, Markdown, and Tailwind CSS

English software developer based in Seattle.

Categories: MarkdownCSS/SassHow to...

Eleventy Layouts with Sizlate

Eleventy Layouts with Sizlate by Simon McManus

Categories: Layouts

Why I use Eleventy

High school student and open source developer.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Changing urls but keeping webmentions in Eleventy

Bernard Nijenhuis • Front-end Developer • Katwijk, The Netherlands • Father of 3 kids • Husband to 1 wife • Owner of 2 cats

Categories: Webmentions

Eleventy Starter Template Series

This series details how to build a starter template for Eleventy projects, going deep into architectural decisions and strategies to make it as easy as possible to start a new project.

Categories: Getting Started

Building an Eleventy Starter Template Series

In this series, learn how to construct your own starter template for Eleventy so you can start your future projects sooner.

Categories: Getting StartedHow to...

My notes on Eleventy WebC components

WebC is a compiler for single file Web Components that brings first-class component model to Eleventy!

Categories: WebC

Understanding WebC Features and Concepts

WebC is an exciting addition to the 11ty ecosystem as it enables first-class components. Putting the pieces together may be a little overwhelming, so let’s review some WebC features to help you be successful!

Categories: WebC

WebC

WebC, the latest addition to the Eleventy suite of technologies, is focused on making Web Components easier to use.

Categories: WebC

Why I built my own Vue plugin for Eleventy

Why and how I built my own Vue plugin for Eleventy.

Categories: ConfigurationPlugins

Integrating Cloudinary into Eleventy

A look at integrating Cloudinary image processing with Eleventy

Categories: ImagesHow to...

First Experience Building with Eleventy's WebC Plugin

My first attempt working with Eleventy's new Web Component plugin

Categories: WebCPlugins

Introduction to WebC

What is WebC and what does it have to do with Eleventy?

Categories: WebC

The next time you see me I will be Eleventy

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

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

Moving my site from Jekyll to Eleventy - Part I

How I revamped my personal site.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Eleventy Tutorial - Create an 11ty Static Site

In this beginner's Eleventy tutorial, learn how to use 11ty by creating a static site with this Static Site Generator.

Categories: Getting Started

Manage your SVG files with Eleventy's render plugin

Using renderFile to keep things tidy

Categories: PluginsImages

Getting set up in Eleventy (6 part series)

Learn the basics of Eleventy in this six-part tutorial series.

Categories: Getting Started

Crash Course in Eleventy's new WebC Plugin

YouTube video

Categories: WebCYouTube

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Jamstack

How I came to build (a previous version of) this site on the Jamstack.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Static Site Generation with Eleventy (YouTube)

YouTube video

Categories: YouTube

Shorter shortcuts through Nunjucks macros in Eleventy

While seeking a way to cut a three-line call down to one line, I found some great advice on using a sometimes-overlooked aspect of a popular templating language.

Categories: Nunjucks/Macros

Word count and reading time in Eleventy

Want to give your readers an idea of what’s ahead? Here’s some code to make that no biggie.

Categories: How to...

Cache-busting in Eleventy, take two

This time, a solution that really (?) works.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Using Puppeteer with 11ty to automate generating social share images

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

Categories: FiltersHow to...PaginationSocial Media

Learn the Eleventy Static Site Generator by Building and Deploying a Portfolio Website

What is Eleventy? Eleventy (also called 11ty) is a simple yet powerful static site generator. It uses JavaScript to transform data and templates into HTML pages. It’s beginner-friendly, has fast build times, and generates fast sites by default. It also has a very active and friendly community. Eleventy excels at

Categories: Getting Started

Learn how to reuse a single source template in 11ty Serverless to generate both a static and server-rendered page.

Categories: ServerlessPermalinks

Get good Git info from Eleventy, too

While per-page Git data is built into Hugo, a little code can bring it to Eleventy, as well.

Categories: How to...

Walk with an Eleventy site, before you can run

A getting started guide with the bare minimum. Every time I open the documentation website of Eleventy , I get this urge to cry, or change career! So I decided to create a small website, that has absolutely nothing, but the bare minimum, and keep.... Posted in JavaScript, Hosting

Categories: Getting Started

A truly fetching utility for Eleventy

While trying to make things work equally well in multiple repos, I discover the value of an Eleventy plugin I’d previously ignored.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

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

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

Categories: Front MatterImagesHow to...

Static embeds in Eleventy

In what could and perhaps should be the end of this saga, here’s code to provide static tweets and static Mastodon toots in Eleventy.

Categories: Social MediaHow to...

Bringing your Notion database to life with Eleventy

How and why I combine Notion and Eleventy (11ty) to render my weekly feed stats on my website.

Categories: Remote Data

Webmention Setup for Eleventy

Here’s a quick run-through of how I retrieve and utilise Webmentions with my Eleventy website.

Categories: Webmentions

Eleventy within Eleventy to compile when you compile: precompiling reused assets

Pre-compile some reused assets to avoid repeating the same operation.

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...

A quick example of adding social sharing links to your Eleventy site

Categories: Social MediaHow to...

Eleventy: Build vs. Serverless vs. Edge

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: ServerlessEdge Functions

Nested navigation in Eleventy

Building a no-JS navigation menu with the details element.

Categories: Navigation

11ty Second 11ty: Creating Template Filters

This week, we’re going to dive into 11ty filters. We’ll use 1 built-in filter, and make 2 custom filters.

Categories: How to...Filters

Support Draft Blog Posts in Eleventy

A look at various ways of supporting draft posts with Eleventy

Categories: How to...ConfigurationCollectionsDrafts

We're all living on it. But what exactly is The Edge?

But what is The Edge? What are Edge Functions? And what impact does this new technology have on the Jamstack, the web, and ultimately — people and our planet?

Categories: Edge Functions

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.

Categories: Global DataHow to...

WordPress & Eleventy part two: Eleventy

Some considerations for using WordPress as a headless content management system for Eleventy.

Categories: CMSHow to...

WordPress & Eleventy part one: WordPress

Some considerations for setting up WordPress to use with Eleventy.

Categories: CMSHow to...

6 Reasons I (Still) Love 11ty

Two years after launching my site with 11ty, it’s grown considerably, and yet I’m still in love with the tool.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Add Netlify CMS to an existing 11ty site

Learn to add Netlify CMS to an existing 11ty site to make editing your posts easier

Categories: CMSNetlifyHow to...

Generating Zips in an Eleventy Site

An example of providing zipped resources in an Eleventy site.

Categories: How to...

A New Schmidtynotes

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

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

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.

Categories: MarkdownHow to...

I18n of URLs

Zach Leatherman asked what style of internationalization you'd prefer (explicit or implicit) and my response just doesn't fit in 280 characters.

Categories: InternationalizationHow to...

Eleventy - Shortcode for Embedding Codepen

Don't know what eleventy is? Before you read further, check out this amazing series of articles by... Tagged with webdev, javascript, beginners, eleventy.

Categories: How to...Shortcodes

Reading Comic Books in the Jamstack

Adding support for digital comic books to your Jamstack site

Categories: Global DataHow to...Images

You should add a generator tag to your Eleventy site

Hear me out on this one, I've got a short but sensible list as to why.

Categories: Configuration

Testing the Netlify Cache Plugin with Eleventy

An example of caching for Netlify with an Eleventy site

Categories: DeploymentData CascadeNetlify

How I Doubled My Lighthouse Performance Score in One Night

I spent some time seeing if I could get my Lighthouse performance score up. Here's how I fared.

Categories: Performance

A demonstration of how to get content published on the same day in the past.

Categories: DatesHow to...

Inlining SVGs in Eleventy

Medium post

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Images

11ty second 11ty: The Render Plugin Part 1

The Render plugin is comprised of two shortcodes for use in your Nunjucks, Liquid or JS templates. It’s a plugin that is bundled with the main 11ty NPM package and ready to use as soon as you nom install 11ty.

Categories: PluginsYouTube

Logging in Eleventy

I design and build websites, web applications, and data visualizations. I’ve been known to play fiddle from time to time and board games.

Categories: How to...Debugging

Building a Quiz with Eleventy and Eleventy Serverless

How I built an Eleventy site driven by dynamic quiz data.

Categories: ServerlessHow to...

Optimizing Images with the 11ty Image Plugin

While imagery can enrich your content, it can also slow down your site if it's not used responsibly. Learn how to use the official 11ty image plugin to create optimized and responsive images.

Categories: ImagesPlugins

Let's Learn Eleventy (11 Part Series)

For the past couple of weeks I have been exploring Static Site Generators (SSG) in an effort to see... Tagged with ssg, eleventy.

Categories: Getting StartedPlugins

Static site delivery automation with Eleventy & Buddy

Combine the speed of Buddy and intuitive nature of Elevenly to build and deploy static sites lightning fast.

Categories: Deployment

Why we switched to Eleventy + Netlify

From the minds at Chromatic: Expert opinions on Drupal, WordPress, software development, and business strategies.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Generate a sitemap for your Eleventy website

How to create a sitemap for your static website built with Eleventy. Tagged with eleventy, sitemap, xml, staticsite.

Categories: How to...Configuration

Add Build Info to an 11ty Site

Expose information about your 11ty site at build time to all templates using global data. Among other things, this can be used to show your site's build time, package version, and the latest Git commit hash.

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

Using the Eleventy Image plugin without a central image folder

Eleventy’s official image pre-processing plugin assumes you have a single folder with all your images in it. I needed something different, and this is how I did it.

Categories: PluginsImagesHow to...

Eleventy wont process post

Web development blog. The good, bad, and ugly (mostly bad and ugly)

Categories: Debugging

Refactoring MikeAparicio.com

Escaping a hoarder house of technical debt.

Categories: How to...

Automate syndication of your content with Eleventy, dev.to, and GitHub Actions

This started off as a test post for my talk I gave this past week at the Eleventy Meetup. Here’s...

Categories: How to...

Taming Eleventy Tags: Or How I Learned To Tolerate Double Pagination

Pagination in Eleventy is bit strange. Out of the box, Eleventy comes with support for something the developers call "pagination", but it...

Categories: PaginationHow to...

Creating a now page archive with 11ty

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

Categories: CollectionsFront MatterHow to...LayoutsNavigationNow Page

Building a design system with Eleventy

How to use this flexible static site generator to create the home for digital design in your company

Categories: How to...

Building a Serverless E-commerce Store with Stripe, Netlify, & 11ty

A lot of e-commerce solutions exist, but many of them charge a monthly fee. How could we build a site with the lowest hosting costs possible?

Categories: How to...

A Set of Useful 11ty Filters

One of my favorite things about 11ty is its flexibility and how easily you can customize your chosen template language without having to leave the familiar comfort of the Node ecosystem.

Categories: How to...Filters

Favicons in root with Eleventy

A simple way to get any and all favicon variations in root for an Eleventy site.

Categories: How to...

Adding Cooklang Support to my Eleventy Blog

How I added cooklang to my blog and the 11ty extension I created in the process

Categories: How to...

Hosting Eleventy on GitHub Pages

I've really been enjoying building sites with Eleventy instead of Jekyll. I'm still learning my way around some of the cool data capabilities, but NodeJS has been much more agreeable to wrangle than Ruby...

Categories: Deployment

Design Mode in 11ty

Sometimes, I prefer to compose text right in my browser and copy it over to my source files. In 11ty, we can enable this behind a keyboard shortcut in our development environment using environment variables.

Categories: How to...

From Notion to Eleventy part 2: Building Markdown from JSON

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

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Nicer Image URLs with eleventy-plugin-remark and remark-images

Website and blog of Florian Eckerstorfer, a web developer living and working in Vienna, Europe. He likes long walks, music and books.

Categories: Plugins

Clawing Back Content for a Better Web: Twitter Archive with 11ty

Full-stack development and design. Based in Central Ohio and accepting projects from all over the world.

Categories: How to...

Post to Eleventy from iOS with Drafts, Shortcuts and Working Copy

A workflow to write and publish posts from iOS to an Eleventy blog using Drafts, Shortcuts, and Working Copy.

Categories: How to...Drafts

Automating related posts in Eleventy with term frequency-inverse document frequency and eleventy-plugin-related.

Categories: How to...

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.

Categories: MarkdownImagesHow to...

Use Your Saffron Recipes in the Jamstack

How to use your Saffron recipes in a jamstack site.

Categories: How to...

New Looks

Full-stack development and design. Based in Central Ohio and accepting projects from all over the world.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Thoughts on the Jamstack and Content Metrics

Tips for getting an understanding of your site's content

Categories: How to...

Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site - Part 2

A follow up to my post on using RSS data with Eleventy sites

Categories: How to...Remote DataRSS

Some tricks for 11ty that I learned along the way

in this post I'll explain how to create a collection from a folder, how to use slugify in tags page, and how to create a page containing all tags ordered alphabetically

Categories: How to...

Eleventy Progressive Web App

Catching the Eleventy Lighthouse obsession bug!

Categories: PerformanceHow to...

Generating Apple Touch Icons with Eleventy

Creating the various sizes of Apple Touch Icons is one of the more tedious tasks in web development, but we can use JavaScript templates in Eleventy to automatically generate Apple Touch Icons.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Validating my Eleventy Blog's HTML

This site serves as a bit of a showcase, reference, and general brain dump, so content may vary!

Categories: How to...

I recently switched this website / blog from WordPress.com to Eleventy. I'm not a developer. Find out what happened!

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Validating the HTML of an Eleventy site

Let's build an HTML validator for an Eleventy site. It will validate all generated pages to make sure they are valid HTML. Any errors will be reported in the terminal.

Categories: How to...

Sometimes it's too late for a starter project

Categories: How to...CMSImage Galleries

Ignore Eleventy Files With Environment Variables

Using environment variables and the Eleventy config option to ignore files, we can exclude files or directories depending on our build process.

Categories: How to...

Setting up Future Projects for Success with Template Repositories

This introduces the series of articles I wrote for Sparkbox's Foundry about how to build an Eleventy Starter Template.

Categories: Getting Started

Per-file commit logs with Eleventy

Using computed data and simple-git to generate file-specific changelogs.

Categories: How to...

The new Eleventy Vite Plugin

YouTube video

Categories: PluginsYouTube

Eleventy + Vue 3

Tips and tricks for using Vue 3 Single File Components as templates for Eleventy.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Plugins

11ty aliases the right way

A short little tutorial on how to make redirects in 11ty that aren't awful.

Categories: CollectionsConfigurationHow to...Pagination

11ty quick tip: Nunjucks include in markdown without indentation

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

Categories: Nunjucks/MacrosMarkdown

Passing Object Arguments to Liquid Shortcodes in 11ty

Currently, 11ty doesn't allow you to pass object arguments to shortcodes in Liquid. As a temporary workaround, you can assemble and parse a JSON string to pass along to the shortcode as an argument.

Categories: How to...

Generate Social Image Covers With Eleventy And Node-Canvas

This static blog is generated with Eleventy and all its social images are automatically generated with node-canvas. In this tutorial we’ll set up a basic version of this script so you can use it on your blog as well.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...Social Media

A 11ty Reading Time Plugin Quest

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

Categories: How to...Plugins

How I built Around the Web

How I added a new format to my website, automated publication to a newsletter, and added categories.

Categories: How to...

Show off your Lighthouse scores as static HTML in Eleventy with the PageSpeed Insights API

The Eleventy community is often focused on performance in a way that you don't tend to see with other... Tagged with eleventy, 11ty, lighthouse, performance.

Categories: PerformanceHow to...

11ty time's the charm

Miguel Calderón. Software Engineer. I build software and lead teams.

Categories: BloggingWhy Eleventy?

Zero maintenance taxonomies in 11ty

Taxonomies in 11ty have always been hard. Sure, we have collections, but for when we want advanced features like categories and authors, it all falls apart. I found a solution. Introducing taxonomies that work so well they feel (almost) native!

Categories: Collections

Eleventy (11ty) setup for multilingual component-based flexible pages

How to setup Eleventy (11ty) static site generator to create landing pages or one page websites with page content splitted in serveral files using reusable UI components

Categories: InternationalizationHow to...

Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site

A quick example of using RSS content for an Eleventy page.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...RSS

Custom Markdown Components in 11ty

Ever wanted to nest Markdown in HTML? In 11ty, you can easily do this with paired shortcodes and a custom Markdown library parser.

Categories: How to...

Serverless blog with 11ty, GraphCMS and Firebase

The idea behind this experiment was to ignore modern practices: no Vercel and the complete React... Tagged with 11ty, eleventy, firebase, graphcms.

Categories: ServerlessHow to...Blogging

From Notion to Eleventy part 1: The Notion API

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

Categories: How to...Remote Data

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.

Categories: BloggingFront MatterHow to...

Minimum Static Site Setup with Sass

Use this command line combination for building a static site that includes Browsersync, processing Sass and running the final files through autoprefixer and cssnano.

Categories: CSS/SassGetting Started

How to add npm packages for client-side use in Eleventy

It's not immediately obvious how to use npm packages in an Eleventy website front end. Here's how to do it.

Categories: How to...

Notes Section: From Notion To Eleventy

How to write notes on Notion and publish with Eleventy

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

New store for albertoballesteros.com: Eleventy and Snipcart

Snipcart is an e-commerce solution that allows us to add a shopping cart to a web page. This article describes how to do that with an Eleventy static site.

Categories: How to...

Adding QR Codes to Your Jamstack Site

A look at adding QR codes to your Jamstack site.

Categories: PaginationHow to...

Eleventy + Lit

Simple. Fast. Web Components.

Categories: Plugins

Advanced 11ty: Using Objects in your UI

In this tutorial, we will be writing an async / await call and then returning its response (an... Tagged with 11ty, await, javascript, tutorial.

Categories: How to...

Minifying JS in Eleventy on production

This tutorial is written for the 11ty framework and we will be hosting the app on Netlify. Other... Tagged with eleventy, minification, terser, 11ty.

Categories: How to...Netlify

A Google Static Maps Eleventy Plugin

A simple Eleventy plugin to support Google Static Maps

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Migrating Hugo to Eleventy - Initial Thoughts

Migrating from Hugo to Eleventy has been a really pleasant and enjoyable experience.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Easily Create Gravatar Images With Eleventy

If you're moving your Wordpress site to Eleventy, you will want to convert your Gravatar images too. Find out how easy it is using an Eleventy shortcode.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

My complete blogging workflow

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

Categories: BloggingHow to...ImagesFront Matter

Using a Google Photos Album in your Eleventy Site with Pipedream

Integrating a Google Photos Album in your Eleventy site with Pipedream

Categories: ImagesHow to...Remote DataImage Galleries

Fetching remote images with Eleventy

Following up on last month’s article about doing this in Hugo, we explain how to get there in a JavaScript-based SSG.

Categories: ImagesRemote Data

Using Storybook with Nunjucks components in Eleventy

The online journal of Ashur Cabrera.

Categories: Nunjucks/MacrosHow to...

Say hello to obsolete29.com v4!

Eleventy came out with v1.0 so I rebuilt my site to celebrate.

Categories: Blogging

Add Pagination to Your Eleventy Static Generated Website in Minutes

Learn how to add pagination to your Eleventy website for faster load times and better user experience with simple JavaScript.

Categories: PaginationHow to...

A Guide to Building a Blog in Eleventy

A guide that walks folks through the process of building a blog with Eleventy

Categories: BloggingHow to...Getting Started

Using the Netlify CMS locally

I have recently been building a few websites using Eleventy. This is a static site generator, built using Jamstack methodology. This is a great way to get a simple website built, as it gives…

Categories: NetlifyCMSHow to...

Powering the latest Gaiety.life blog (here!) with 11ty

My favorite static site generator along with Tailwind UI to rebuild this very site.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

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...

Categories: Front MatterHow 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.

Eleventy Custom Content Type Collections and Layouts

How-to on creating separate collections and layouts for a custom content type. In this case: cocktails!

Categories: CollectionsLayouts

11ty tips I wish I knew from the start

David East's personal site full of blog posts and stuff.

Categories: ConfigurationData CascadeGetting StartedNavigation

Going all in with Jamstack and Eleventy

I rebuilt my personal site with Eleventy, a static site generator, and am loving it!

Categories: Getting Started

2021

Just Enough JavaScript for Eleventy

Want to try Eleventy, but not very experienced in JavaScript yet? You're in the right place.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Running Netlify Dev and Eleventy Two or More Times At Once

A tip for folks using Netlify Dev and Eleventy

Categories: How to...

Going serverless with Eleventy

Let's walk through how to configure Eleventy and how to use Eleventy Serverless to handle asynchronous logic in a real-world project.

Categories: Serverless

How to use Vue to template your Eleventy projects

If you like using Eleventy, but would love to leverage Vue syntax in your templates, here's a guide on how to do that.

Categories: Layouts

How to use Contentful with Eleventy

Here's a pretty 0-60 tutorial on integrating Contentful headless content with Eleventy static site generation! I hope you think it's nice!

Categories: CMSHow to...

An In-Depth Tutorial of Webmentions + Eleventy

Join the Indie Web by adding Webmentions to your serverless Eleventy static site with this step-by-step tutorial. No client-side JavaScript needed!

Categories: Webmentions

Includes and Macros

I design and build websites, web applications, and data visualizations. I’ve been known to play fiddle from time to time and board games.

Categories: Nunjucks/Macros

Dynamically choosing a data file to use in Eleventy templates

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

Categories: Data CascadeGlobal Data

Time is on your side

The HTML time element is both useful and easy to use.

Categories: DatesHow to...

Mix and match template syntax in Eleventy using the render plugin

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: Plugins

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.

Categories: Global DataHow to...

Creating and Using Eleventy Collections

Collections allow you to group templates and then sort, filter, and perform other manipulations to customize the display of your template content and data.

Categories: Collections

Implementing a search bar on my static website

A personal blog where I write about my side projects

Categories: How to...Search

Migrating to Eleventy

Quick brain dump around my experience with Eleventy.js, a static site generator.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Managing a secrets directory in your eleventy site

A personal blog where I write about my side projects

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Eleventy 1.0 - Global Data via Plugins Example

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

Categories: Global DataPlugins

Eleventy 1.0 - New Option for Global Data

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

Categories: Global Data

Converting a simple HTML site to use Eleventy

For when you're ready for a little templating fun

Categories: How to...Migrating to Eleventy

Updated social sharing (open graph protocol) images for my personal site

Using the large social sharing images added nothing to the information being published so I've decided to stop using them.

Categories: Social MediaHow to...

Eleventy 1.0 - Dynamic Ignores

Eleventy 1.0's new support for dynamic file ignore settings.

Categories: Configuration

Adding PDF Output Support to Eleventy

Using Eleventy transforms and Adobe PDF Services to create dynamic PDFs.

Categories: How to...

Eleventy Hack/Tip/Possibly Bad Idea - Dynamic Theme Testing

How to test a new theme in an Eleventy site

Categories: How to...Configuration

Inspecting an existing 11ty project

Great talk by Cassey Lottman

Categories: How to...ConfigurationDebugging

Building server-rendered search for static sites with 11ty Serverless, Netlify, and Algolia

Learn how to code progressive enhancement on the Jamstock with 11ty Serverless, Netlify, and Algolia, without bloating our codebase,

Categories: ServerlessSearchHow to...

Introduction to Eleventy (11ty) ELEVENTY

This is a simple introduction to Eleventy (11ty), a popular static site generator.

Categories: Getting Started

Requesting YouTube API endpoint using Node and 11ty

How to request YouTube API endpoint using Nodejs standard API and Eleventy (11ty) in the frontend!. Tagged with node, eleventy, javascript, html.

Categories: YouTubeHow to...

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

Categories: How to...Front Matter

Make Eleventy the next thing you learn

Why looking at the Eleventy Static Site Generator is the logical next step when learning how to make websites

Categories: Getting Started

Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog - Follow-Up

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

Categories: How to...Front Matter

How to Create and Deploy Your First Eleventy Website

Learn how to build a website with Eleventy (11ty), a static site generator that gives you simplicity and flexibility.

Categories: How to...Deployment

Every fire needs a sparkline

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: How to...

I really love when people include Reply-to links in their RSS feed. Here are a couple options.

Categories: How to...

Using PDFs with the Jamstack - Building a Document Viewer

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

Categories: How to...Global Data

Adding Algolia search to an Eleventy site with Netlify

After months of struggles I finally found a relatively easy solution.

Categories: How to...Search

How to Separate Content from Website Code

It's much easier to maintain a site over time when the content is separate from the code. Walk through that process using a real example with Eleventy.

Categories: How to...

Using Liquid Blocks in Eleventy Layouts

A look at using multiple blocks and having them render in Liquid templates

Categories: LayoutsHow to...

Automatically Generated Social Media Images with HTML, CSS, Eleventy & Puppeteer

Prettier previews, built with many moving parts.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

How I Set Up a Project With Eleventy

Introduction This is a quick overview on my typical setup for an 11ty project. I really... Tagged with jamstack, eleventy.

Categories: How to...Getting Started

More Work on Algolia and My Blog

An update to my fight to get search working right on my blog

Categories: SearchHow to...

Using parameters in your eleventy includes with nunjucks macros

Includes are great. But for actual reusability of code, parameters are always needed. Luckily, nunjucks makes this possible with macros!

Categories: How to...Nunjucks/Macros

A Running Log - Garmin Connect and Eleventy

Use Eleventy to log Garmin Connect activities on a website and automate the process with Zapier and Netlify.

Categories: Data CascadeHow to...Remote Data

Automate Netlify Redirects in 11ty

Tired of listing all of your Netlify redirects by hand? Generate them programmatically with a bit of 11ty templating magic!

Categories: How to...

Filter Titles for RSS and Social Shares

Replace characters that are often stripped out of post titles by RSS readers and social network link embeds

Categories: How to...Social MediaFiltersRSS

Modular code with Nunjucks and Eleventy

These days, web development and design are all about modularization and components. Template languages have a lot to offer and Eleventy itself has a few tricks up its sleeve.

Categories: Nunjucks/Macros

Reusable code snippets and components in Eleventy

Some cunning ways to use Nunjucks and 11ty shortcodes for reusable blocks

Categories: How to...

An Adobe PDF Embed Plugin for Eleventy

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

Categories: How to...Global DataConfigurationPlugins

When to Use Pagination in Eleventy

Contrasting pagination and looping, with examples and a reference image.

Categories: Pagination

Page Level URL Fetching with Eleventy

Making a network request on a page with Eleventy

Categories: How to...Remote DataFront MatterGlobal Data

Using Nunjucks shortcodes in Markdown files in Eleventy

Unlock the power of Eleventy Image in your md posts

Categories: MarkdownNunjucks/MacrosShortcodes

Structuring Eleventy projects

One of the great things about Eleventy is its flexibility and its lack of assumptions about how your projects should be organized. However, in order to preserve my own sanity, I needed to come up with a default files and folders architecture that made sense to me.

Categories: How to...

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.

Categories: Global Data

Blog post filter with Netlify Functions

I built my first ever serverless feature to add tag filtering to my blog listing. Here's how I integrated that to my Ghost & Eleventy setup with Netlify Functions.

Categories: FiltersHow to...ServerlessRemote Data

Building a notification thingamajig with Eleventy data

The online journal of Ashur Cabrera.

Categories: Data CascadeHow to...

Getting your bearings in an existing Eleventy project

Questions to ask to start making changes quickly

Categories: Configuration

Making an 11ty collection from a remote XML file

RSS is XML with a specification, however not all RSS feeds follow the spec. In this post, we process the feed as an XML document meaning we can access the extra attributes and values

Categories: CollectionsHow to...Remote Data

Eleventy plus Vite = elite

Re-bundling, but without the pain of webpack.

Categories: How to...Plugins

Eleventy and template extends

A quirk detail about how Elevent handles extending a Nunjucks layout using template blocks.

Categories: Layouts

Applying frontmatter defaults to a whole folder of posts in eleventy

Using JSON data files to apply defaults

Categories: How to...Front Matter

Formatting dates nicely in 11ty with Luxon

Using Luxon to format dates in your nunjucks templates

Categories: DatesHow to...

Build your own shop with the Shopify Storefront API, Eleventy, and serverless functions

Learn how you can create your own online shopping experience using the improved Shopify Storefront API, serverless functions, and Eleventy.

Categories: ServerlessHow to...

Setting a conditional variable in Javascript

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Improving my automated open graph image process w/ Eleventy

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Categories: ImagesSocial MediaHow to...

Integrating Eleventy with GitHub Flat Data

How to use the Flat Data GitHub action with Eleventy

Categories: Remote Data

How I Create an Article Series in Eleventy

Front matter, templates, collections, and JavaScript.

Categories: How to...

Improving upon my image processing with Eleventy

I recently relaunched my website and I believe I have improved upon my image processing setup using eleventy-img. Here is what I did.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Manage Design Tokens in Eleventy

Eleventy offers the ability to transform data, which is handy for creating and transforming design tokens

Categories: How to...

Create an 11ty collection from any RSS feed

Using 11ty global data files, we create an 11ty collection from an RSS feed. As an example, we show the latest YouTube videos on our website

Categories: Remote DataCollectionsHow to...RSS

Creating an Additive Capture Shortcode in Eleventy

Creating a capture shortcode that appends insteads of replacing

Categories: How to...

Notion API with 11ty

How to use the Notion API in 11ty

Categories: Remote Data

Creating a dynamic color converter with 11ty Serverless

11ty started out as a static site generator, but is quickly getting into the dynamic game. Use the templates and structure you love, but use them on the server, as well!

Categories: Serverless

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

Categories: CollectionsHow to...Global Data

A First Look at Eleventy Serverless!

YouTube video

Categories: ServerlessYouTube

Dynamic Short URLs with Eleventy

Creating URL aliases dynamically with Eleventy

Categories: Front MatterCollectionsHow to...

Minimal SASS & eleventy Setup

A post about setting up SASS with eleventy without additional tools

Categories: CSS/Sass

Webmentions + Eleventy Talk

Slides and resources from my talks at JamStack Toronto and Magnolia JS.

Categories: Webmentions

Using Lunr with Eleventy via Netlify Serverless Functions - Part Two

A followup to my post demonstrating using Lunr via serverless functions

Categories: SearchHow to...

11ty: The Good, the Bad, and the... Possum?

An in-depth review of 11ty, an extensible static site generator written in Node that supports a variety of template languages.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Using Lunr with Eleventy via Netlify Serverless Functions

A look at using Lunr on the server side with an Eleventy web site

Categories: SearchHow to...

Building Ale House Rock with 11ty

I rebuilt my beer review website using a JSON API and 11ty. This is a rundown of how I tackled it

Categories: Collections

Moving from Hexo to Eleventy

Migrating my blog to a new static site generator and redesigning my theme.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Itsiest, Bitsiest Eleventy Tutorial

Want to get started with Eleventy but feel overwhelmed? Try out this pared-down tutorial

Categories: Getting Started

A Remarkable Discovery

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

Categories: MarkdownHow to...

11ty Simplicity

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Why 11ty?

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Accessing 11ty filters within data files to keep your code DRY

11ty filters can exist as JS functions inside the declared filters directory - these can be accessed by other files not processed by 11ty

Categories: FiltersHow to...

Sanity with 11ty

Categories: CMSHow to...

Building a Choose Your Own Adventure site with Eleventy

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

Categories: Front MatterHow to...

Case Study: One year with Eleventy after leaving GatsbyJS

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.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Using PurgeCSS with Bootstrap and Eleventy

Tailwind is rad but have you ever wanted a customized, slim version of Bootstrap? In this tutorial,... Tagged with eleventy, 11ty, bootstrap, purgecss.

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Stop forgetting the Eleventy Data Cascade

Eleventy is a great static site generator and one of the best parts of it is The Data Cascade. It's a notably simple way to map data to templates and I mean that in the best possible Simple Made Easy sense. I hope more static site generators steal it...

Categories: Data Cascade

Adding an Email Subscription to Your Jamstack Site

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

Categories: How to...Front Matter

Listing posts in Eleventy when you publish offsite

Co-mingling internal and external posts takes a little extra work. Here’s what I did

Categories: How to...

How to: add Twitter and Instagram Embeds on an Eleventy website using Sanity

Cover image credits: Photo by Luismi Sánchez on Unsplash At Orbit, we recently rebuilt our website f... Tagged with 11ty, eleventy, sanity, jamstack.

Categories: How to...CMS

Asset Pipelines in Eleventy

While some SSGs have a standardized way of handling assets, Eleventy does not. That's a good thing! Here are a few possible approaches you can take.

Categories: Asset Pipelines

Using 11ty JavaScript Data files to mix Markdown and CMS content into one collection

In this article, we'll mix Markdown files with external data sources to create a unified 11ty Collection.

Categories: CMSCollections

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.

Categories: Data CascadeGlobal Data

Let's Learn Eleventy (11ty) - How to make a JavaScript bundle

In the fifth part of the Let't Learn Eleventy series, we'll learn how handle JavaScript

Categories: Asset PipelinesHow to...

Eleventy 1.0

In the changelog, I’m documenting modifications to this site that might be of interest, but are not necessarily my own ideas or work. This time it’s about the update to Eleventy 1.0 and some things that changed while updating.

Categories: ImagesSocial MediaHow to...

How I got the archive page permalinks right.

Categories: How to...Permalinks

Get your Eleventy Site into the real world using a hosting provider like Netlify or Git pages

There are plenty of ways to get your 11ty site live depending on preferences and skill set, this blog walks through a few of the popular ones including Gitlab pages, Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare pages

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventy

Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't looked back. Over the last few months, I have become fed up with Jekyll. It's slowing me down. Time to replace it with something new and shiny!

Categories: Migrating to EleventyBlogging

Using Eleventy’s official image plugin

The what, why, and how of Eleventy Image.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Layout Templating

Tips for creating Eleventy layouts.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Building a Database Driven Eleventy Site

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

Categories: PluginsPaginationGlobal Data

Medium-Style Share Highlights in Eleventy

I built an Eleventy plugin to do Medium-style text highlights that can be shared. It uses a webcomponent, custom properties and the Web Share API.

Categories: How to...

Build an 11ty calendar to list all your posts

List all of your posts (or other collection items) in a calendar/diary format to give a timeline of your past

Categories: CollectionsHow to...

Creating a feed in Eleventy

Bernard Nijenhuis • Front-end Developer • Katwijk, The Netherlands • Father of 3 kids • Husband to 1 wife • Owner of 2 cats

Categories: How to...

npx eleventy !== npx @11ty/eleventy

Use the former at your own risk.

Categories: How to...Configuration

Using the Image plugin with Eleventy to build a simple gallery

Categories: ImagesHow to...PluginsConfigurationImage Galleries

Faster YouTube embeds in Eleventy

Use lite-youtube-embed in Eleventy for faster and more privacy-minded video

Categories: YouTube

Using Cloudflare workers to publish your scheduled 11ty posts

Learn how to schedule blog posts and other items to go live with your static site generator without having to rebuild the whole site. Get all the benefits of a dynamic CSS with static files

Categories: How to...Deployment

How to add Netlify CMS to an existing Eleventy project

I started coding again recently and I've been working on some personal projects in Eleventy. I alrea... Tagged with netlifycms, eleventy, jamstack, beginners.

Categories: CMSHow to...Netlify

Syndicating blog posts from an 11ty site to Dev.to using RSS

How I syndicate the blog posts from my website to Dev.to by providing an RSS feed for my journal page.

Categories: How to...RSS

Using SASS With Eleventy

Eleventy (11ty) is a super customisable static site generator that at its core transforms template language into HTML. However, template languages li…

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Quick Tips for Eleventy and Vercel

A quick tip for folks using Eleventy and Vercel together.

Categories: DeploymentHow to...Debugging

11ty Date Shortcodes and Filters

Use this shortcode and filter as a starting point for your date transformation needs.

Categories: DatesHow to...FiltersShortcodes

Adding a favicon in Eleventy

Bernard Nijenhuis • Front-end Developer • Katwijk, The Netherlands • Father of 3 kids • Husband to 1 wife • Owner of 2 cats

Categories: How to...

A Deep Dive Into Eleventy Static Site Generator

Learn what makes Eleventy unique, and about some essential concepts to help you successfully get started.

Categories: Getting Started

Filters for 11ty Content

Includes filters for creating an excerpt and other content enhancements.

Categories: Filters

Moving a blog from Jekyll to Eleventy

This post walks through how to set up a blog with the Eleventy static site generator and deploy it using Netlify. We'll cover topics such as migrating from Jekyll, configuring and extending Eleventy, adding syntax highlighting, an RSS feed, a sitemap, SEO meta tags, privacy-friendly analytics, web fonts, and hosting images.

Categories: Migrating to EleventyBlogging

Using the Eleventy image plugin to generate images

In the changelog I'm documenting modifications to this site that might be of interest, but are not necessarily my own ideas or work.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Tailwind-to-head with Eleventy

This follow-up to an earlier article about Hugo Pipes shows how to get internal CSS in an Eleventy site — and with no build tools required.

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Collection archive in Eleventy

Bernard Nijenhuis • Front-end Developer • Katwijk, The Netherlands • Father of 3 kids • Husband to 1 wife • Owner of 2 cats

Categories: How to...Collections

Using PDFs with the Jamstack - Now with Thumbnails

Combing Adobe PDF APIs with Eleventy to create PDF Thumbnails

Categories: How to...Remote DataPagination

Adding Webmentions to my site

While I was rebuilding my website in Eleventy, I saw Amber Wilson's article about adding Webmentions to her site shared on Twitter. I'd heard of Webmentions but I'd never really looked into them and while I was reading Amber's post, I thought that it's a really cool idea and added them to the list of things I wanted to add to my site.

Categories: Webmentions

Dates in Eleventy

Bernard Nijenhuis • Front-end Developer • Katwijk, The Netherlands • Father of 3 kids • Husband to 1 wife • Owner of 2 cats

Categories: Dates

Adding Simple Pagination to an 11ty Collection

11ty can handle pagination really well, but finding the right subset of the many pagination features can be a little difficult to figure out. Here's how I added simple previous and next links and post totals to the list pages on this blog.

Categories: PaginationHow to...Collections

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.

Categories: MarkdownHow to...Accessibility

Using PDFs with the Jamstack

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

Categories: How to...Global DataPagination

Creating a Fast and Beautiful Portfolio Website using HTML, CSS, Eleventy and Netlify

Eleven years ago, in 2010, my personal website was minimal by every means. Relaunching in 2021 using... Tagged with webdev, webperf, eleventy, netlify.

Categories: CSS/SassNetlifyGetting Started

11ty and Rollup - a take on current build pipelines

I love rollup and I love 11ty (eleventy), but mixing the two seems to be a little hard - at least when looking at the starter projects presented on 11ty's website. Here's my take on it.

Categories: How to...

Integrating Navigation Search with Lunr and Eleventy

How to use navigation search forms and Lunr

Categories: SearchNavigationHow to...

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.

Categories: Data CascadeGlobal Data

Encapsulated Eleventy/Nunjucks components with macros

How to pass parameters to an include in Nunjucks

Categories: Nunjucks/Macros

Site Metadata

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

Categories: Data CascadeGlobal Data

Using Template Content as Data for 11ty

Create a collection of content using any Eleventy templating language and learn to control the output to enable using that content as data.

Categories: Data CascadeCollections

Now with added Eleventy!

Ever since I gave Eleventy a go when I was building the LeedsJS website, I've been a huge fan and advocate, even convincing some people to give it a try out of my sheer enthusiasm for it. I absolutely love the simplicity and flexibility of it, as well as things like data files. I have a whole post talking about this stuff from when I was building the new LeedsJS website. I've been meaning to convert my own site over for a while, and recently took the plunge and decided to do it. As well as giving me the opportunity to dig into Eleventy without a deadline pressing me, it also gave me the chance to make some stylistic changes.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Create an Eleventy podcast feed

Want to add an iTunes and Google friendly podcast feed to your Eleventy site? Here's how.

Categories: FiltersBloggingHow to...Configuration

Webmention Analytics

I built a tool to analyze incoming webmentions. This new side project generates monthly reports to see how and where my content is mentioned.

Categories: Webmentions

Eleventy in eleven minutes

Image by 11ty.dev I would like to share my opinionated path how I got started using. Table... Tagged with eleventy, thingsivelearned, blazingfast, staticsitegenerator.

Categories: Getting StartedWhy Eleventy?

Group posts by year in Eleventy

Using a custom 11ty collection to group post by any attribute.

Categories: DatesHow to...Collections

Eleventy plugin for generating social images (using SVG)

How I created an eleventy plugin to automatically generate social-images for your website and blog posts.

Categories: PluginsHow to...

Going Beyond Static Sites With 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.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

How to Use WordPress as a Headless CMS for Eleventy

You want to offer static-site benefits to clients, but they want WordPress! Learn how to use Eleventy with WordPress to offer the best of both worlds.

Categories: CMS

Grouping blog posts by year in Eleventy

Create an archive page grouped by year (or anything you want!) using 11ty's built in pagination and a modified collection.

Categories: PaginationDatesHow to...Blogging

My year of Eleventy plugins

Exactly one year ago today, I published my first Eleventy plugin. Here are some of the things I’ve learned since then.

Categories: Plugins

Don't shut down your business! Instead use Eleventy Image

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: Images

Eleventy plugin for efficient CodePen embeds

Embed CodePen.io Pens into your 11ty website by using a ShortCode. It directly embeds an iFrame for efficiency (without loading CodePen's Javascript).

Categories: How to...Plugins

Let's Learn Eleventy (11ty) - Images

In the fourth part of the Let't Learn Eleventy series, we'll learn how use images with eleventy-img plugin

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Using Pre-Built Lunr Indexes with Eleventy

Switching to Pre-Built Lunr indexes with Eleventy sites

Categories: SearchHow to...Configuration

Add YouTube playlists to your Eleventy site

Want to add a YouTube playlist to your Eleventy website? Read on to find out how.

Categories: YouTubeHow to...

Add HTML classes to 11ty markdown content

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

Categories: Markdown

Webmentions: Joining the IndieWeb

I design and build websites, web applications, and data visualizations. I’ve been known to play fiddle from time to time and board games.

Categories: Webmentions

Accessing Eleventy Data on the Client Side

Accessing Eleventy data files in your JavaScript code

Categories: Global DataRemote DataHow to...Front Matter

Moving from Gatsby to Eleventy

Thoughts and learnings of Graham Martin, a UI Developer in London, UK

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

An async function walks into a loop.

A solution for async functionality in template loops, using `eleventy-image` as an example, some basics about JavaScript loops, and debugging advice. All in what should be a short note.

Categories: Images

3 Ways to Render Server-Side Components with Eleventy

While Eleventy doesn't appear to be built for today's component-driven landscape, here are three approaches we can take to get closer.

Categories: How to...

Automated social sharing images with Eleventy and Puppeteer

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Categories: How to...Images

Setup social sharing previews, SEO, and favicons on Eleventy

This is part four of how I used 11ty to setup my personal site. This is how I setup open graph protocol, search and favicons.

Categories: Social MediaImagesHow to...

Accessible amojis with 11ty

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary trans frontend developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

Categories: AccessibilityHow to...

Debug Mode

Debug Mode — Eleventy

Categories: Debugging

Trigger a Netlify build every day with IFTTT

Trigger a Netlify Build Every Day with IFTTT — Eleventy

Categories: DeploymentNetlify

2020

Give your Eleventy Site Superpowers with Environment Variables

Eleventy is increasing in popularity because it allows us to create nice, simple websites, but also — because it’s so developer-friendly. We can build

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

RSS, a love letter and walkthrough for my Eleventy site

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Categories: How to...PluginsLayoutsRSS

Eleventy and Hugo: comparing and contrasting

Trying to choose between the two best static site generators? See if these points address your personal hot buttons.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Maximally optimizing image loading for the web

In this post I'll outline 8 image loading optimization techniques to minimize both the bandwidth used for loading images on the web and the...

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Dynamic heading levels in Eleventy

While looking around a repository at something else I discovered this clever approach.

Categories: How to...

Configuring responsive and optimized images with Eleventy

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Categories: ImagesHow to...Plugins

Building my personal site with Eleventy

Power Platform Developer and all around cool guy

Categories: Getting StartedBloggingWhy Eleventy?ConfigurationLayouts

Add structured data annotations to Eleventy blog

Add structured data (JSON-LD) to enable rich snippets in Google search results.

Categories: How to...Data CascadeBlogging

Hashing out a cache-busting fix for Eleventy

Some of the code behind my previous post.

Categories: CSS/Sass

Using Airtable with Eleventy

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

Categories: Remote DataHow to...Global Data

Optimize Images in Eleventy Using Cloudinary

Learn the fundamentals behind responsive images and how to set them up in Eleventy using Cloudinary and Eleventy shortcodes

Categories: Images

Generating Social Sharing Images In Eleventy

Standing on the shoulders of giants makes it possible to generate social sharing images with very little code.

Categories: Social MediaImagesHow to...

Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions

When I re-made my site with Eleventy, the pages didn't change much, but I had loads of fun adding new features. The most fun was webmentions and I'm here to co…

Categories: Webmentions

Understanding Filters, Shortcodes and Data in 11ty

Sometimes it’s a little confusing what the difference between shortcodes, data and filters really is, and frankly the boundaries can become a little blurred with 11ty.

Categories: Data CascadeHow to...FiltersShortcodes

Adding Google Calendar to Your Jamstack - with Pipedream

An updated demonstration of integration calendar data into your Jamstack site - with Pipedream

Categories: Remote DataHow to...

Inlining scripts and styles in 11ty

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary trans frontend developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

Categories: CSS/SassConfiguration

Footnotes in 11ty

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary trans frontend developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

Categories: How to...

From Jekyll to 11ty

I’m Kitty Giraudel, a non-binary trans frontend developer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

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.

Categories: Front MatterData CascadeHow to...

Time to Cache Up

For a long time I’ve been searching for a sound solution to storing the entire Webmention history of my blog, as packaging it up with the rest of the repository was not cutting it for me. Enter the world of async.

Categories: Webmentions

Using a folder other than posts/ with Eleventy

I don’t want to wrestle with overwrought Webpack configuration, write GraphQL queries for basic navigation, or scream at types for failing to transpile or whatever. I want to write

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

From Gatsby to Eleventy

In this post I'll compare my experience building my personal blogging site (the one you're on now) with two static site generators (SSGs) - Gatsby and Eleventy…

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Compile Sass With Eleventy

Instead of using Gulp or Grunt, Eleventy can also compile Sass files directly. The players: the new beforeBuild event and Dart Sass.

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Asset Pipelines in Eleventy

I design and build websites, web applications, and data visualizations. I’ve been known to play fiddle from time to time and board games.

Categories: How to...CSS/SassAsset Pipelines

Jamstack 101: Getting Started with Eleventy

Joel Varty will show you how to get started building Jamstack sites using JavaScript and Eleventy.

Categories: Getting Started

Using PostCSS for cache-busting in Eleventy

Optimizing how browsers handle your site’s CSS, and why you should care about that.

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Adding a Warning for Old Posts to Your Jamstack Site

How to add a message to older content on your static site.

Categories: How to...Filters

Internationalization And Localization For Static Sites

Internationalization and localization is more than just writing your content in multiple languages. You need a strategy to determine what localization to send, and code to do it. You need to be able to support not just different languages, but different regions with the same language.

Categories: Internationalization

What is Eleventy! With David Darnes (Audio)

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.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Create a Custom Collection with Eleventy

If you've built sites using Eleventy, you're probably familiar with collections. Using the Configuration API allows for creating custom collections which can be useful to only show certain posts on your site.

Categories: Collections

Getting started with Eleventy in 11 minutes

This article will show you how to build a static site in 11 minutes using Eleventy. Tagged with eleventy, staticsite, jamstack, javascript.

Categories: Getting Started

Selecting Random Posts in Eleventy

A look at adding links to random pages in Eleventy

Categories: How to...FiltersConfiguration

Responsive Images with Eleventy & Sharp

High school student and open source developer.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Creating a Sitemap file with Eleventy

This is a quick tip showing how I created a sitemap.xml file using Eleventy that will automatically update itself when you create new pages

Categories: How to...

Let's Learn Eleventy (11ty) - Slots, includes and shortcodes

This is the third part of the Let't Learn Eleventy series. We'll learn how to use slots, includes and shortcodes.

Categories: How to...Shortcodes

Eleventy and Responsive Images

I have created a remark plugin called @fec/remark-images that can be used with Eleventy to automatically generate responsive images.

Categories: Images

Why I love 11ty (and JAMstack) for building static sites...

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.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Tips for debugging in 11ty

Some quick debugging tips that I came up with whilst building my personal blog.

Categories: DebuggingHow to...

Converting Behind the Source to 11ty

I spent the week converting Behind the Source from Craft to Eleventy (a static site generator). Will I use it again?

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Setting up Homebrew, NPM and Eleventy on a fresh mac

Walking through setting up Homebrew on your Mac, so you can install NPM and Eleventy.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

@fec/eleventy-plugin-remark v2.0.0 released

I released @fec/eleventy-plugin-remark v2.0.0

Categories: Plugins

Tracking Posts by Week in Eleventy

A quick hack to get the number of posts written per week in Eleventy

Categories: How to...Dates

Manually splitting CSS files in Eleventy

Don't want to use a bundler? Eleventy makes it easy to manually split your CSS.

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Add Netlify Redirects and Headers to an Eleventy Project

What seems like a simple task can be a little tricky to get right with Eleventy. Learn how to add a _redirects file to Eleventy projects deployed with Netlify.

Categories: NetlifyHow to...

Automated Open Graph images with 11ty and Cloudinary

I wanted to find a way to dynamically generate a unique Opengraph images for each blog post automatically using post data, Cloudinary API & Eleventy

Categories: Social MediaImagesHow to...

Eleventy and Vue, a match made to power Netlify.com

Learn more about the new Netlify.com site tech stack. We’ve combined Eleventy and Vue, and throughout this article Zach Leatherman explains the details behind the setup.

Categories: Netlify

Add a generator meta tag to your Eleventy website

A generator meta tag is used to give some credit to the tools you use to build a plain HTML website. Let's give Eleventy some credit. Tagged with eleventy, jamstack, staticsite, javascript.

Categories: How to...Configuration

Generate CSV Files from Data with 11ty

Eleventy is one heck of a powerful, incredibly flexible static site generator. This short guide will show you how you can generate CSV data files using Eleventy.

Categories: How to...

Hooking Up FaunaDB to Eleventy

Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.

Categories: Remote DataHow to...Pagination

Eleventy Clock

The online journal of Ashur Cabrera.

Categories: Pagination

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

Categories: Remote DataGlobal DataData Cascade

Eleventy: RSS Feeds and Front Matter Data

Getting front matter data into my Nunjucks RSS feed templates.

Categories: Front MatterHow to...RSS

Let's Learn Eleventy (11ty) - Collections

This is the second part of the Let't Learn Eleventy series. We'll learn how to use collections.

Categories: Collections

A high-performance blog template for 11ty

I'm excited to announce the beta-release of eleventy-high-performance-blog–a high-performance blog template for 11ty based on this very...

Categories: BloggingPerformance

Let's Learn Eleventy (11ty) - What is 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.

Categories: Why Eleventy?Getting Started

Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog

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

Categories: Front MatterHow to...FiltersPagination

A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Building the Site

In the last article, we learned what goes into planning for a community-driven site. We saw just how many considerations are needed to start accepting user

Categories: How to...

A Community-Driven Site with Eleventy: Preparing for Contributions

I've recently found myself reaching for Eleventy (aka 11ty) above all other tools when I want to develop a website. It's hard to beat a static site generator

Categories: How to...

Add a Static Directory to an Eleventy Project

Copy static files from a directory into the root of the build directory with Eleventy.

Categories: How to...

Migrating from Node and Express to the Jamstack - Part 3

Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.

Categories: Migrating to EleventyServerlessHow to...Remote Data

Migrating from Node and Express to the Jamstack - Part 2

A look at how you can migrate from Node to the Jamstack - this edition focused on users

Categories: ServerlessMigrating to Eleventy

Hiding Future Content with Eleventy

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

Categories: How to...Front MatterFiltersCollections

Migrating from Node and Express to the Jamstack - Part 1

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

Categories: Migrating to EleventyGlobal DataPagination

Building a blog with 11ty and Wordpress

When I decided to move to the Jamstack, I was sure that I wanted to build something with an API and since I'm quite familiar with WordPress and its API that was an easy choice. But what seemed to be an easy task has had its obstacles.

Categories: Blogging

Create a Plugin for 11ty (video)

YouTube video

Categories: PluginsYouTube

How to show your template code in 11ty blog posts

If you write a technical blog and use 11ty as your static site generator of choice you might run into a conundrum: How do you show Liquid or Nunjucks template code in your code blocks.

Categories: How to...Blogging

Integrating Contentful with Eleventy to create static sites

Want to use a powerful yet simple static site generator? Learn how to integrate 11ty with Contentful — it’s a breeze!

Categories: CMS

How to generate ID attributes in headings using Eleventy

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

Categories: How to...Markdown

Adding Algolia Search to Eleventy and Netlify

How I added Algolia Search to an Eleventy Site

Categories: SearchHow to...

Chasing 100: tips for optimizing your website

It takes work, but making your website better is worth it.

Categories: Performance

Moving from Panini to Eleventy

Hello. I am Ken Hawkins. Builder of websites, project planner, newspaper nerd, information architect, lover of UX, consultant. Information structure is my thing.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

An Eleventy Starter with Tailwind CSS and Alpine.js

When I decided to try to base my current personal website on Eleventy, I didn't want to reinvent the wheel: I tested all the Eleventy starters built with

Categories: CSS/Sass

Adding Algolia Search to Eleventy and Netlify - Part Two

An update to my post on using Algolia with Eleventy

Categories: SearchHow to...

Moving from WordPress to Eleventy

Some thoughts and findings from my first forays converting a WordPress blog into a static site with 11ty (coincidentally split into 11 sections 👀).

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Building and maintaining components from utility classes in Eleventy

Use a collection of utilities to form components without additional CSS.

Categories: How to...CSS/Sass

Your blog doesn’t need a JavaScript framework

Why I choose Eleventy over Gatsby for my new website

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Moving from Jekyll to Eleventy

Moving a blog-centric site from Ruby-based Jekyll to Javascript-based Eleventy.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Eleventy: Debugging

I belatedly figure out how to get debug output in Eleventy.

Categories: Debugging

Performant data fetching with promises and Eleventy

Fetching a whole bunch of data from APIs at build time can be an intensive process. Getting that data in a performant way and caching it locally is an important part of Jamstack projects.

Categories: Remote Data

Climbing the 11ty Performance leaderboard with Cloudinary, critical CSS and more

A few weeks ago, Zach Leatherman announced that he was going to change the Built with 11ty section 11ty's documentation. He was going to create a performance leaderboard to showcase performant projects using the tool. I wanted my site to break into the top 100!

Categories: How to...CSS/Sass

Testing my Eleventy-website with Cypress and Netlify

Last time I wrote "this page is a repository consisting of some thrown-together and latenight-written code". Some tests should ensure that I don't break to much when I'm, cleaning up the code. Here's how I created a basic setup that runs my tests before every deployment.

Categories: How to...DeploymentNetlify

Integrating Google Analytics with Eleventy

How to use Google Analytics with Eleventy

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Eleventy: Loop through a collection from within a layout?

I have a home page which is made up of sections. Each section is currently pulled into my index.html... Tagged with eleventy, help.

Categories: How to...Collections

Integrating Netlify Analytics and Eleventy

How to use Netlify's Analytics API in Eleventy

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Architecting data in Eleventy

Setting and using data in the static site generator Eleventy

Categories: Data Cascade

Goodby Sapper, Hello Eleventy!

Sometimes things change fast: Just about two months after I launched this website with the SSR-Framework Sapper I'm replacing it with a site that is generated with the static site generator Eleventy. Let me explain.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Logging with Eleventy and Nunjucks

Adding a simple filter to save you a lot of grief.

Categories: DebuggingHow to...

Going solo with Eleventy

Losing webpack, regaining Tailwind CSS.

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Using Nunjucks 'If Expressions' in 11ty to create a simple active navigation state

In this tutorial, we'll set up a simple navigation, identify what page navigation item we need to activate based on URL parts and add an active class to that element with no need of an if tag

Categories: How to...

Building a Static API with Eleventy

Implement a Static API using the simple and fast static site generator, Eleventy.

Categories: How to...

Ignore _site Build Directory in Eleventy

How to ignore the build output when adding it to gitignore causes problems.

Categories: How to...

Moving From Ghost to Eleventy

Ramblings on bacon, drawing, and technology

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

How to Include PrismJS CSS Only When Required In Eleventy

How I set up Eleventy to avoid including unnecessary CSS.

Categories: CSS/SassHow to...

Webmentions in three SSGs: Part 1

The intro to a five-part series about incorporating webmentions into three different static site generators (SSGs).

Categories: How to...Webmentions

Embed Everything

I recently released a plugin for quickly embedding media in Eleventy sites. I think it has potential!

Categories: How to...Plugins

Eleventy Résumé Builder

A free template to generate semantic, accessible & resilient résumés for the web and print.

Categories: How to...

The full .11ty.js monty

Going all-JavaScript with my Eleventy site.

Categories: How to...

web.dev engineering blog #1: How we build the site and use Web Components

In this first post from the web.dev engineering team, learn about how we build the site—including our use of Eleventy and Web Components.

Categories: How to...

Let’s Learn Eleventy! Boost your Jamstack skills with 11ty

Check this tutorial out to see what the static site generator Eleventy can do. Spin up a fast, performant Jamstack site in this quick overview and tutorial from Learn With Jason.

Categories: Getting Started

Quick Tip on Using Vue with Eleventy

Avoid issues with Vue code being confused for Liquid

Categories: How to...

Five Critical Things To Do Before Working With 11ty

Five pieces of knowledge I wish I knew before working with 11ty, the JavaScript-based static site generator. Get a jump start using this fantastic tool.

Categories: ConfigurationData CascadeFiltersGetting Started

Creating a similar post component with Eleventy

How I added a similar post component to my blog with Eleventy and Liquid.

Categories: How to...

Creating an Editable Site with Google Sheets and Eleventy

Remember Tabletop.js? We just covered it a little bit ago in this same exact context: building editable websites. It’s a tool that turns a Google Sheet into

Categories: How to...Remote Data

Building a website with a static site generator, part 3: Domain, Analytics and Forms

Once your website is up and running, it's time to get a professional looking domain, think about analytics and collect data with forms.

Categories: Getting StartedBloggingConfiguration

Back to Nunjucks for my Eleventy site

Why I’ve decided for now to backtrack from JavaScript-only templating in Eleventy.

Categories: Nunjucks/Macros

The Emergency Website Kit

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.

Categories: How to...Why Eleventy?

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.

Categories: Getting StartedGlobal DataLayoutsBlogging

Eleventy's New Performance Leaderboard

A post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)

Categories: Performance

Moving this blog from Jekyll to 11ty

A couple of gotchas but mostly very straightforward

Categories: Migrating to EleventyBlogging

Building a website with a static site generator, part 1: Setup

In this blog series, we will build a static website using Eleventy, NetlifyCMS, GitHub and Netlify. In the first post, we set everything up and deploy a template page to make sure everything works.

Categories: Getting StartedDeploymentCMSBlogging

How my site is built with Eleventy + Ghost

This website is run with Eleventy, using Markdown and Ghost CMS for blog posts. I've iterated in a couple of ways to build the CMS integration.

Categories: CMSHow to...

Basic custom taxonomies with Eleventy

Eleventy comes with a built-in tagging system. For a recent project, I wanted to use my own category system, which led me to dive a bit deeper into extending and configuring Eleventy.

Categories: Collections

Twitter Cards with Nunjucks and 11ty

Using cards makes sharing your content on Twitter look much nicer.

Categories: Nunjucks/MacrosSocial MediaHow to...

RaymondCamden.com now powered by Eleventy!

Details on my migration to Eleventy

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

Add pagination for dynamic data in Eleventy

Creating pagination from dynamic data and add a useful navigation bar. Tagged with eleventy, javascript, blog, tutorial.

Categories: PaginationHow to...

Adding Another Template Language to Eleventy

Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.

Categories: ConfigurationHow to...

Adding Text Linting to Eleventy

An example of using Eleventy's Linter feature

Categories: How to...Plugins

Taking WordPress to Eleventy

How I converted 12 years of posts in WordPress to an Eleventy static site ... and loved every minute of it.

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Checking (and Upgrading) Template Engines in Eleventy

How to check the version of embedded template engines in Eleventy

Categories: How to...ConfigurationFilters

Adding a Last Edited Field to Eleventy

How to add a "Last Edited" value to Eleventy pages.

Categories: How to...CollectionsConfigurationDates

Eleventy Walkthrough

Categories: Getting Started

Static site generators: Hugo vs Jekyll vs Gatsby vs 11ty

I have an obsession with SSGs, and Eleventy is my favourite (even better than Hugo, Jekyll, and Gatsby).

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Teaching in the open: Eleventy

Content Management Systems and structured data are part of my teaching duties. From the get go, I decided to cover both a database-driven CMS and a Static Site Generator. As far as the latter goes, I switched from Jekyll to Eleventy this year.

Categories: Getting Started

Let’s Learn Eleventy!

YouTube video

Categories: Getting StartedYouTube

Eleventail - A helper for Taiwindcss

Phil Hawksworth's home on the web. Read his blog, ask questions, and find coverage of his recent conference talks about web development.

Categories: How to...CSS/Sass

2019

Code comfort: Eleventy and webpack

Some words about my Eleventy/webpack configuration.

Categories: How to...Configuration

Show conditional Twitter intents with Eleventy

Encourage users to retweet or share a post based on whether a Tweet already exists for your blog post.

Categories: Social Media

Fractal and Eleventy: Getting static sites closer to the design system

Hello. I am Ken Hawkins. Builder of websites, project planner, newspaper nerd, information architect, lover of UX, consultant. Information structure is my thing.

Categories: How to...

Integrating Eleventy with gulp, upstream JS

Hello. I am Ken Hawkins. Builder of websites, project planner, newspaper nerd, information architect, lover of UX, consultant. Information structure is my thing.

Categories: How to...

Adding Search to your Eleventy Static Site with Lunr

Using Lunr to add client-site search to your static site

Categories: SearchCollectionsConfiguration

Migrating from WordPress to Eleventy

Author: Ed Spencer, Article: Migrating from WordPress to Eleventy

Categories: Migrating to Eleventy

Why I'm Digging Eleventy

Father, husband, developer relations and web standards expert, and cat demo builder.

Categories: Why Eleventy?Pagination

Language switcher for multilingual JAMstack sites

Following my blogpost on multilingual websites with Eleventy, I had several questions about how to build a language switcher. Here is the approach I generally use.

Categories: InternationalizationHow to...

Why I left Hugo for Eleventy

Only weeks after telling you I was sticking with Hugo, I switch to Eleventy: the whys and wherefores.

Categories: Migrating to EleventyWhy Eleventy?

What I Like About 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:

Categories: Why Eleventy?

Consuming a headless CMS GraphQL API with Eleventy

With Eleventy, consuming data coming from a GraphQL API to generate static pages is as straightforward as using Markdown files.

Categories: CMS

Eleventy and Ghost

We’ve expanded our headless starter repositories with Eleventy – a popular JAMstack static site generator that can be used with Ghost as a Headless CMS! 👩‍💻

Categories: CMS

Tips for rolling your own lazy loading

You may have heard (or even issued the call) that “we can just use lazy loading!” when looking for a way to slim down a particularly heavy web page.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Creating an 11ty Plugin - SVG Embed Tool

In the sites I’ve built with Eleventy (11ty) recently, I’ve found myself reusing a couple filters. This has involved me copying and pasting the code a lot. The solution? Create an 11ty Plugin.

Categories: PluginsHow to...

Scheduled and draft 11ty posts

This post explains how you can add scheduled publishing to your 11ty blog (with a bonus for drafts). Before I jump in though, 11ty is a surprisingly simple sys…

Categories: CollectionsFiltersHow to...Drafts

Create an Eleventy (11ty) theme based on a free HTML template

In this video series, we'll take a look at what it takes to start with a free HTML template found on Google and convert it for use with a static site generator (SSG). We'll be using my personal favorite SSG 11ty (EleventyJS).

Categories: How to...YouTube

Use Eleventy to generate a Ghost blog

Last night I had a thought: What if I could source a Ghost blog from the Ghost Content API and then generate a static blog all inside of Eleventy?

Categories: CMS

Multilingual sites with Eleventy

Eleventy might not have multilingual and localisation capabilities out of the box, but you can build a pretty good setup using global data files, collections and Nunjucks as a templating language.

Categories: ImagesHow to...

Using Webmentions in Eleventy

How to pull interactions from social media platforms like Twitter back to your own site, using Webmentions, webmention.io and Bridgy.

Categories: How to...Webmentions

Deploying an 11ty Site to GitHub Pages

I am building a new personal site. The idea behind it is pretty simple: it’s a blog that will have a total of 50 pages added to it over 5 years. Not much content and not much complexity. I deba...

Categories: DeploymentHow to...

2018

Build your own Blog from Scratch using Eleventy

Filament Group helps companies design and build super-fast responsive sites and web apps that are simple to use and accessible to everyone

Categories: BloggingGetting Started

Keeping Sass Simple and Speedy

Optimising your local development pipleine, for faster Eleventy Sass compilation

Categories: CSS/Sass

Adding search to a Jamstack site

Using progressive enhancement, JavaScript and a static site generator to create site search facility.

Categories: How to...Search

Deploy a free Gatsby, Hugo, or Eleventy website template in 30 seconds

We’ve started a collection of quick-start website project templates. Whether you’re looking for a free Gatsby blog template or a Gulp build pipeline, we’ve got easy options to deploy them for free in 30 seconds.

Categories: DeploymentNetlify

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