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Raymond Camden 104 posts

Author: RAYMOND CAMDEN (104 posts)

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

2025

A Test of Eleventy Fetch

A quick look at the Eleventy Fetch plugin.

2024

Upgraded to Eleventy 3.0 (Beta)

My experience upgrading this blog to the latest Eleventy blog.

(Don't) Add BASIC Support to Eleventy

A bad idea. A very, very bad idea.

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Add Squirrelly Support to Eleventy

How to add Squirrelly support to Eleventy

Building a Web Version of Your Mastodon Archive with Eleventy

Turning your Mastodon archive into a web site with Eleventy

2023

Adding Music Previews to My Now Page

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

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Fun With Front Matter: Part 4 - Featured Posts

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

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Fun With Front Matter: Part 3 - Handling Edits

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

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Fun With Front Matter: Part 2 - Follow-ups

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

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Fun With Frontmatter: Part 1 - Related Posts

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

How I built my Now page

YouTube video

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

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Creating Bootstrap WebC Components in Eleventy

Using WebC to make working with Bootstrap simpler.

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Using Goodreads Data in Eleventy - Update

A followup to my previous article on Goodreads and Eleventy

Using Goodreads Data in Eleventy

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

Eleventy by Example, by Bryan Robinson

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

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Working with CloudCannon and Eleventy - My Experience

My experience testing the CloudCannon CMS experience with Eleventy.

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WebC Updates in Eleventy - Looping

A look at another new WebC feature - looping

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

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

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WebC Updates in Eleventy

Description of updates to WebC

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New Blog Same as the Old Blog

Details about my site rebuild.

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Supporting PDF Embeds in an Eleventy WebC Component

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

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Update to My Eleventy Blog Guide

An update regarding my Eleventy blog guide.

Building a Mastodon Bot Listing Page in Eleventy

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

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Using JavaScript in a WebC Component

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

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Quick WebC Tip

How to enable better color coding for your WebC templates

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Quick Tip for Eleventy's WebC support

YouTube video

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2022

Adding Download Support in an Eleventy Site

An example of adding download resources to an Eleventy site

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A Bare-Bones Eleventy Template for Glitch

A quick template for using Eleventy on Glitch

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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.

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Support External Articles in an Eleventy Blog

Adding a method to list external articles in an Eleventy blog

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Some Options for Timing Pages in Eleventy

Some experiments timing slow pages with Eleventy

Quick LiquidJS + Eleventy Example - All Posts

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

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Integrating Cloudinary into Eleventy

A look at integrating Cloudinary image processing with Eleventy

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First Experience Building with Eleventy's WebC Plugin

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

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Adding Social Share Links in Eleventy

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

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Support Draft Blog Posts in Eleventy

A look at various ways of supporting draft posts with Eleventy

Generating Zips in an Eleventy Site

An example of providing zipped resources in an Eleventy site.

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Reading Comic Books in the Jamstack

Adding support for digital comic books to your Jamstack site

Testing the Netlify Cache Plugin with Eleventy

An example of caching for Netlify with an Eleventy site

Related Content by Day of Year in Eleventy

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

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Building a Quiz with Eleventy and Eleventy Serverless

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

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Use Your Saffron Recipes in the Jamstack

How to use your Saffron recipes in a jamstack site.

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Thoughts on the Jamstack and Content Metrics

Tips for getting an understanding of your site's content

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Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site - Part 2

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

Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site

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

Adding QR Codes to Your Jamstack Site

A look at adding QR codes to your Jamstack site.

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A Google Static Maps Eleventy Plugin

A simple Eleventy plugin to support Google Static Maps

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Using a Google Photos Album in your Eleventy Site with Pipedream

Integrating a Google Photos Album in your Eleventy site with Pipedream

A Guide to Building a Blog in Eleventy

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

2021

Running Netlify Dev and Eleventy Two or More Times At Once

A tip for folks using Netlify Dev and Eleventy

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Eleventy 1.0 - Global Data via Plugins Example

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

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Eleventy 1.0 - New Option for Global Data

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

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Eleventy 1.0 - Dynamic Ignores

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

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Adding PDF Output Support to Eleventy

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

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

How to test a new theme in an Eleventy site

Creating a (Manual) Related Posts Feature in Eleventy

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

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Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog - Follow-Up

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

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Using PDFs with the Jamstack - Building a Document Viewer

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

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Using Liquid Blocks in Eleventy Layouts

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

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More Work on Algolia and My Blog

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

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An Adobe PDF Embed Plugin for Eleventy

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

Page Level URL Fetching with Eleventy

Making a network request on a page with Eleventy

Integrating Eleventy with GitHub Flat Data

How to use the Flat Data GitHub action with Eleventy

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Creating an Additive Capture Shortcode in Eleventy

Creating a capture shortcode that appends insteads of replacing

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Dynamic Short URLs with Eleventy

Creating URL aliases dynamically with Eleventy

Using Lunr with Eleventy via Netlify Serverless Functions - Part Two

A followup to my post demonstrating using Lunr via serverless functions

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Using Lunr with Eleventy via Netlify Serverless Functions

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

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Building a Choose Your Own Adventure site with Eleventy

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

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Adding an Email Subscription to Your Jamstack Site

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

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Building a Database Driven Eleventy Site

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

Building a Simple Image Gallery with Eleventy

Using the Image plugin with Eleventy to build a simple gallery

Quick Tips for Eleventy and Vercel

A quick tip for folks using Eleventy and Vercel together.

Using PDFs with the Jamstack - Now with Thumbnails

Combing Adobe PDF APIs with Eleventy to create PDF Thumbnails

Using PDFs with the Jamstack

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

Integrating Navigation Search with Lunr and Eleventy

How to use navigation search forms and Lunr

Using Pre-Built Lunr Indexes with Eleventy

Switching to Pre-Built Lunr indexes with Eleventy sites

Accessing Eleventy Data on the Client Side

Accessing Eleventy data files in your JavaScript code

2020

Adding Google Calendar to Your Jamstack - with Pipedream

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

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Adding a Warning for Old Posts to Your Jamstack Site

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

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Selecting Random Posts in Eleventy

A look at adding links to random pages in Eleventy

Tracking Posts by Week in Eleventy

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

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Hooking Up FaunaDB to Eleventy

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

Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog

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

Migrating from Node and Express to the Jamstack - Part 3

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

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

Hiding Future Content with Eleventy

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

Migrating from Node and Express to the Jamstack - Part 1

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

Adding Algolia Search to Eleventy and Netlify

How I added Algolia Search to an Eleventy Site

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Adding Algolia Search to Eleventy and Netlify - Part Two

An update to my post on using Algolia with Eleventy

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Integrating Google Analytics with Eleventy

How to use Google Analytics with Eleventy

Integrating Netlify Analytics and Eleventy

How to use Netlify's Analytics API in Eleventy

Quick Tip on Using Vue with Eleventy

Avoid issues with Vue code being confused for Liquid

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RaymondCamden.com now powered by Eleventy!

Details on my migration to Eleventy

Adding Another Template Language to Eleventy

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

Adding Text Linting to Eleventy

An example of using Eleventy's Linter feature

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Checking (and Upgrading) Template Engines in Eleventy

How to check the version of embedded template engines in Eleventy

Adding a Last Edited Field to Eleventy

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

2019

Adding Search to your Eleventy Static Site with Lunr

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

Why I'm Digging Eleventy

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

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