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2025
From Dotclear to Eleventy 5
How to migrate a blog from Dotclear on to eleventy
By Alix Guillard (4 posts)
What’s Next? Search Me
The long and the short of it: the blog finally has search functionality again, something it lost with the move to Eleventy back in March. This is not something I was sure would ever happen. I’d avoided the consistently recommended Pagefind because I didn’t like...
By Bix Frankonis (1 post)
Migrating WordPress To Eleventy
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
By Brian Cantoni (6 posts)
Building Search Index with Eleventy
One of the features that I’m quite happy about on my new website is the built-in search functionality and how the search index gets built for it. You can test it out yourself by pressing...
By Ariel Salminen (2 posts)
Recreating Search with Eleventy v3 and Netlify
While upgrading to version 3 of Eleventy, I discovered that the official serverless plugin was no longer supported. That was how this site's search feature worked. To finish the upgrade, I needed to write my own serverless code and plugin to manage it. While the details of how the search feature
By Philip Renich (2 posts)
How To Add Search To Eleventy
If you have an Eleventy-based site, there are a few options you can take to add search to your page. One low-fi solution…
By Martin Hähnel (14 posts)
Eleventy version 3: Just how fast can a website be?
Upgrading to eleventy version 3 offered the opportunity to rethink some things, and dive into how to get a website to load super fast. Lighthouse is now reporting one hundred across all four categories.
By Mark Pitblado (1 post)
2024
A tweak to how I use Pagefind
I use the Pagefind package to add search to my personal site. It was returning way too many result for simple words. I made a small tweak to fix that.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
Here's how this is all put together
I've been fiddling with this site for the better part of a year now and now that it's fairly stable, I'm putting together what amounts to a public `README` (or a note to self). This post is that document.
By Cory Dransfeldt (46 posts)
Dynamic Websites with Static Site Generators
What if you used your static site generator to output PHP instead of HTML?
By Evan Sheehan (8 posts)
Building a Custom Filter for Eleventy Collections
Lists are wonderful, and filters make them better. This article is about building a custom filter for Eleventy collections.
By Tom Doe (10 posts)
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.
By Cory Dransfeldt (46 posts)
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.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
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.
By Chris McLeod (7 posts)
2023
Add high-performance search to static sites with PageFind
The concise guide to using Pagefind for your static site’s search functionality.
By Henry Bley-Vroman (4 posts)
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.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
Using Wordpress as a headless CMS for Eleventy
Adding Search to an Eleventy Site Without Client-side JavaScript
Earlier this year (2023) I added a search feature to my blog. I’ve always appreciated being able to search other people’s personal sites directly without resorting to a third-party search engine. As I try to get back into writing more here, especially little web development notes to my f
By Philip Renich (2 posts)
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
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Adding client side search to a static site
Creating a site-search function that doesn't rely on external services
By Tom Hazledine (3 posts)
CloudCannon
CloudCannon.com officially switched our website over to build with Eleventy, and the results with this static site generator have been amazing.
By David Large (4 posts)
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.
By John M. Wargo (45 posts)
Adding a basic search to a static site
A simple solution to having a search feature on a static website
By Clayton Errington (19 posts)
Using PageFind with Eleventy for Search
How to use PageFind to implement search for an Eleventy site
By Robb Knight (20 posts)
2021
Adding Algolia search to an Eleventy site with Netlify
After months of struggles I finally found a relatively easy solution.
By Mike Aparicio (4 posts)
More Work on Algolia and My Blog
An update to my fight to get search working right on my blog
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Using Lunr with Eleventy via Netlify Serverless Functions - Part Two
A followup to my post demonstrating using Lunr via serverless functions
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Using Lunr with Eleventy via Netlify Serverless Functions
A look at using Lunr on the server side with an Eleventy web site
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Integrating Navigation Search with Lunr and Eleventy
Using Pre-Built Lunr Indexes with Eleventy
2020
Adding Algolia Search to Eleventy and Netlify
How I added Algolia Search to an Eleventy Site
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
Adding Algolia Search to Eleventy and Netlify - Part Two
An update to my post on using Algolia with Eleventy
By Raymond Camden (104 posts)
2019
Adding Search to your Eleventy Static Site with Lunr
2018
Adding search to a Jamstack site
Using progressive enhancement, JavaScript and a static site generator to create site search facility.
By Phil Hawksworth (2 posts)