Front Matter 55 posts
Category: FRONT MATTER (55 posts)
2025
Migrating from WordPress to 11ty (Eleventy)
This site was migrated from WordPress to 11ty (Eleventy). Here's how I did it, including how to import and convert WordPress content that relies heavily...
By Alfred Reinold Baudisch (1 post)
Updated My Draft System
How to import() a Javascript string
blog - obsidian templates and use
about the templates i use in obsidian to create drafts and posts
By actuallysomecat (4 posts)
Tweaking my 11ty blog to link to the Mastodon post defined in an Org Mode property
By Sacha Chua (4 posts)
Presenting an episode on your site
Building a Quiz System With Eleventy
Remember when internet quizzes were a thing? I wanted to bring them to my website.
By Nathan Upchurch (4 posts)
Creating a 'new blog entry' shortcut for creating blog posts in nano for eleventy
By Paul Capewell (2 posts)
Visual Studio Code Snippet for Markdown Frontmatter
Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.
By Chris McLeod (7 posts)
2024
Adding Cooklang Support to Eleventy Three Ways
How I added my recipes to my blog posts with cooklang and the recipe schema
By Robb Knight (20 posts)
Open Graph Metadata and Images in Eleventy Made Easy
Blog posts are meant to be shared. When sharing links, you’ll often see a preview on social media and instant messengers. But how does it work and how can you do it with Eleventy?
By Sebin Nyshkim (3 posts)
It turns out a CMS can be pretty awesome
Having a CMS to update your site can be awesome. It's not strictly necessary and mine is entirely over-engineered but here we are. It's helpful on mobile, it's been incredibly useful on desktop.
By Cory Dransfeldt (46 posts)
Virtual Templates in Eleventy
In Eleventy 3.0, virtual templates enable plugin authors to publish and share dynamic templates.
By Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (14 posts)
Dynamic Content Includes
In this post, I explain how I solved two issues at the same time by introducing a feature to my post layout that I’m calling pre and post includes.
By Chris Burnell (8 posts)
A custom collection to sort events with Eleventy
I made a custom collection with a filter to sort events by their custom date data.
By Sami Määttä (6 posts)
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 Visua
By John M. Wargo (45 posts)
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
By Grigør (2 posts)
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.
By fLaMEd (10 posts)
Detecting Markdown titles with Eleventy
By Lewis Dale (5 posts)
2023
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.
By Ginger (7 posts)
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.
By Tomek Poniatowicz (2 posts)
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...
By Keith Carangelo (1 post)
Fun With Front Matter: Part 4 - Featured Posts
How to use "featured" posts to highlight important content.
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Fun With Front Matter: Part 3 - Handling Edits
Another example of front matter - signifying edits (both when and why)
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Fun With Front Matter: Part 2 - Follow-ups
Fun With Frontmatter: Part 1 - Related Posts
A series on doing more with your Jamstack site's front matter
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
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).
By John M. Wargo (45 posts)
Using Rmarkdown with Eleventy
2022
Processing images linked from frontmatter with eleventy-img to use in meta tags
Creating a now page archive with 11ty
Blog and general digital garden of the full stack programmer Simon Dann.
By Simon Dann (11 posts)
Build a Blog With 11ty: Base - Part 2
We are going to be go through the first steps to get up and running with 11ty. Building a 11ty site from scratch will help you keep your site lightweight, scalable and easy to manage.
By Jeremy Faucher (8 posts)
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.
By Michael Harley (14 posts)
My complete blogging workflow
Here is my complete blogging workflow from how I manage ideas all the way to publishing and sharing.
By Michael Harley (14 posts)
2021
Creating a (Manual) Related Posts Feature in Eleventy
How to handle post relations in Eleventy in a manual fashion.
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog - Follow-Up
An udate to my earlier Eleventy demo showing how to handle multiple authors
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Page Level URL Fetching with Eleventy
Dynamic Short URLs with Eleventy
Building a Choose Your Own Adventure site with Eleventy
How I built a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style site with Eleventy
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Adding an Email Subscription to Your Jamstack Site
Using MailChimp to provide a list service for new posts on your blog
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Accessing Eleventy Data on the Client Side
2020
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.
By Ryan Boone (3 posts)
Eleventy: RSS Feeds and Front Matter Data
Getting front matter data into my Nunjucks RSS feed templates.
By Mark Llobrera (7 posts)
Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog
How to handle multiple authors in Eleventy, with custom author profile pages.
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Hiding Future Content with Eleventy
How to use custom filters and collections to hide Eleventy content for the future.
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)