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2025
Announcing a new 11ty Shortlink and QR Code Generator purl.im
using the #indieweb for shortlinks and qr codes
By Adam DJ Brett (10 posts)
How I fixed an 11ty performance error that caused my build time to be seven minutes
Eleventy Core Dependency Watch (2025 Edition)
Cooling Down the Servers by Adding a Little Snow
Cool your servers off with some CSS snow as we wire up the snow-fall web component in a self hosted Eleventy setup, complete with color, count, and reduced motion tweaks.
By Kyle Reddoch (4 posts)
Eleventy - todayโs date as a global variable
Sometimes, you want to use today's date in a template. One example is a copyright notice that includes the current year. Not all templating languages provide a simple way to get the current date.
By Rob O'Leary (13 posts)
I built a tiny RSS generator for my Advent of Code solutions
My current publishing setup for my notes doesnโt allow separate feeds for different categories so I built a small tool for my website to add entries manually to a separate feed with a single CLI call.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
Eleventy: How to Set Up Effective HTML Minification (in 24 Seconds)
Using JavaScript and Eleventy to display headlines from multiple RSS feeds
What if you want to show off the latest blog post from multiple websites that don't offer an API to do so? If you have Eleventy, then you can follow this guide for a starter.
By Gregory Hammond (3 posts)
11tyCMS: Major accessibility improvements, CSS and editor tweaks, a new welcome wizard and better site support
Finally, our 11th post! Appropriately enough, its a special one. This update has been developing on the last one's legacy: getting 11tyCMS ready for early
By 11tyCMS (11 posts)
Eleventy (11ty) string-based translation with i18next
This article shows how you can make an Eleventy (11ty) website translatable on a string-by-string basis, supporting translation platforms such as Weblate.
By Andrew Ward (5 posts)
My New On-Demand Image Resizing Pipeline for Eleventy
Don't get me wrong: I love using Eleventy . I am benefiting so much of its little and big conveniences and generally agreeโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
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)
My portfolio
Prototyped in Penpot, bought to life with 11ty! My portfolio is WCAG AA compliant, scores 100 on Google PageSpeed insights and weighs under 90kb.
By Jessie Heald (1 post)
XMIT Redirects and 11ty
Using XMIT Redirects on an Eleventy site deploying to XMIT via GitHub Actions
By Adam DJ Brett (10 posts)
Deploying an Eleventy Site to XMIT using GitHub Actions
Using esbuild in Eleventy
The personal website of Dan Cฤtฤlin Burzo.
By Dan Cฤtฤlin Burzo (6 posts)
Updated Bookmarks
I've been using raindrop for my bookmarks and updated my bookmarks page
By Clayton Errington (19 posts)
Let it Snow: Adding a Falling-Snow Effect to Your Eleventy Website
As you can see, I'm getting my priorities in order. Here's how I added a falling-snow effect to my website.
By Nathan Upchurch (4 posts)
Making a free image gallery with 11ty and Neocities.org
Mastering Eleventy: Display All Blog Posts from a Category on a Single Page
Have the same topic on your 11ty website and want to view them all on one page? Here's how to do so with just one extra file, and no plugins needed.
By Gregory Hammond (3 posts)
Reclaim Open - This One Goes to 11(ty)
A blog of the presentation given at the #ReclaimOpen25 conference.
By Tim Klapdor (2 posts)
11tyCMS: Major refactoring, state management overhaul, routing, site history selection and site dashboard implementation
It's been a busy week for 11tyCMS. SO much has changed under the hood. My goal has been to refactor the code base to make things as easy as possible to wor
By 11tyCMS (11 posts)
How We Use GitHub Issues and How Thatโs Changing
Embedding Mastodon Posts in Eleventy: My Journey
What finally worked to embed Mastodon posts in Eleventy: a tiny shortcode that lets embed.js set height and supports a clean full-bleed layout.
By Kyle Reddoch (4 posts)
Three Minor Releases, One Major Leap for Subspace Builder
Catch up on the three rapid releases that reshape Subspace Builder with a tag hub, refreshed navigation, and a data-driven projects page.
By Nicholas Clooney (5 posts)
Creating a modular approach to json schema in an eleventy website
I wanted a modular and automated way to add json schema to my personal website so built a set of templates and some simple logic to populate the schema.
By Simon Cox (16 posts)
11tyCMS: THE Eleventy Meetup appearance, metadata improvements, more post and collection goodness
## THE Eleventy Meetup! (potential for a Silex collab? ๐ ) So in late September, we appeared on THE Eleventy Meetup. It was fantastic talking with Sia *a
By 11tyCMS (11 posts)
11ty OpenGraph & SEO
re implementing opengraph and meta tags in 11ty using javascript and nunjucks
By equilibriumuk (19 posts)
Wrapper Elements around Code Blocks in Markdown
THE Eleventy Meetup Episode 27
I spoke at THE Eleventy Meetup again; this time about building a multilingual blog.
By Helen Chong (7 posts)
Simple Lossless Image Compression
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
By Brian Cantoni (6 posts)
TypeScript Mini Apps in Eleventy
By DSri Seah (2 posts)
Creating Cloudflare redirects
Notes on optimal ways to pull together a redirects file suitable for a Cloudflare hosted website.
By Simon Cox (16 posts)
Eleventy Launch
As I discussed previously, Iโve been rewriting this blog in a new tool called 11ty (aka Eleventy - the projectโs devs arenโt consistent so I wonโt be either). This is the first blog post written in the new blog engine, and the migration is complete!
By Ash Furrow (2 posts)
An 11ty Site, Codeberg Pages, and Cron
Using a cron job with Codeberg Pages to build and deploy an 11ty site
By Jason Moser (5 posts)
Font Subsetting in Eleventy
eleventy-plugin-font-subsetting works fine but its configuration is finicky.
By Shiv J.M. (13 posts)
More Description
Let's continue Another WhileDo post. Of course, my amazing work yesterday had one fatal flaw and that is that the previewโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
11ty Hacks for Fun and Performance
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
By Alex Russell (1 post)
WhileDo
Instead of a How-To, I'll write a "WhileDo" today. This is my attempt to Write Like Ron Jeffries. After I published thisโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Lighting Up GitHub Embeds in My Eleventy Blog
October 3, 2025 For the longest time, sharing code from GitHub meant screenshotting or pasting raw snippets into Markdown. Both options felt brittleโscreenshots hide the text from RSS readers, while copy-pastes drift out of sync the minute the upstream file changes. I wanted the readability of Emgit
By Nicholas Clooney (5 posts)
Introducing Brewventy: Your Coffee-Themed Eleventy Starter Kit
โDiscover Brewventy, a customizable coffee-themed Eleventy starter with dark/light modes, SCSS-driven theming, and built-in deployment workflows for effortless site launches.โ
By Kyle Reddoch (4 posts)
How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why Itโs So Fast) on Podcast Awesome
From Dotclear to Eleventy 5
How to migrate a blog from Dotclear on to eleventy
By Alix Guillard (4 posts)
Preview production drafts locally
`ELEVENTY_ENV` is now wired into every npm script so drafts stay private in production while remaining easy to preview.
By Nicholas Clooney (5 posts)
Leveling Up Responsive Images with Eleventy Img
Walking through the fixes that led us from stretched screenshots to a lean Eleventy Img pipeline, plus a quick primer on how responsive image markup really works.
By Nicholas Clooney (5 posts)
Fetching a JSON file from GitHub at build time in Eleventy
Today I learned how to fetch a raw JSON file from GitHub at build time in Eleventy. Here's how I did it.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
11ty Subspace Builder v1.0.0
Our first stable launch brings a polished Eleventy 3 starter with theme switching, accessible navigation, OG image automation, and a streamlined authoring flow.
By Nicholas Clooney (5 posts)
File organisation in Eleventy: Filters
I organise all my Eleventy filters into one file and register them as filters by iterating over them all in the configuration function.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
From Dotclear to Eleventy 4
How to migrate a blog from Dotclear on to eleventy 4- Rebuild pages and navigation
By Alix Guillard (4 posts)
Adding a custom filename to a code block in Elevยญenty with markdown-it
From Dotclear to Eleventy 3
How to migrate a blog from Dotclear on to eleventy 3- Content Migration
By Alix Guillard (4 posts)
Leveraging Eleventyโs custom data file format feature for simpler game scoring format
While building a website for our Pokรฉmon TCG tournament series, I discovered a new handy tool within Eleventy to enable custom data formats.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
Moving away from Nuxt to Eleventy
Discover why we are moving all of our statically generated websites from Nuxt to Eleventy, a faster and more reliable solution.
By pariskasid (1 post)
Migrating from Hugo to 11ty (Finally)
I finally moved my personal website from Hugo to 11ty after letting it sit dormant for months.
By Pedro Rocha (1 post)
From Dotclear to Eleventy
Building a Multilingual Blog with Eleventy
My experience with making my English-Simplified Chinese bilingual personal blog with Eleventy and its official internalisation plugin.
By Helen Chong (7 posts)
From Start to Finish: Moving My Blog to Eleventy + GitHub Pages
A step-by-step guide on migrating my blog from using Weblog by OMGlol to Eleventy, hosted on GitHub Pages.
By Kyle Reddoch (4 posts)
Asset fingerprinting and the preload response header in 11ty
Iโll be building on my earlier post about CSS asset fingerprinting, this time adding the preload response header into the mix. Together, these techniques make sure your browser grabs my blogโs CSS right away, keeping things fast and seamless.
By Matt Hobbs (7 posts)
Conditional favicon in Elevยญenty using passthrough copy
Never mix up dev and prod again! (due to identical icons, at least)
By Christopher Kirk-Nielsen (14 posts)
An Eleventy Showcase!
This is a post featuring what you can do with Eleventy and Markdown!
By Jesus Otero Lagunes (1 post)
Eleventy pagination with Vento
Updating Eleventy from Nunjucks to Vento was mostly smooth sailing โ except for pagination. Hereโs how I eventually figured it out.
By Graham F. Scott (5 posts)
Using Obsidian Callouts with 11ty
A simple guide on how to make an Obsidian style Callout or Information box
By Aninus Partikler (1 post)
Yet Another Blog Rewrite
In 2019, I rewrote this blog with Gatsby. I outlined my reasons in that post, but basically I wanted to use similar technology to build my blog as I used day-to-day at work. Middleman, Bootstrap, and jQuery seemed old and busted. Gatsby, React, and TypeScript seemed so much more fun.
By Ash Furrow (2 posts)
OG Images using 11ty Screenshot Service
How I Fixed My Blogroll
After troubleshooting eleventy my blog roll was the cause of the long build times
By Clayton Errington (19 posts)
Troubleshooting Eleventy Long Build Time
I notice my build times were getting longer but no real changes were made
By Clayton Errington (19 posts)
Ghost vs. Substack, Eleventy vs. WordPress: My Experiences
This month I began yet another web side-project: a weekly newsletter called Web Technology News on the Ghost platform. I currently have two other active websites: Cybercultural, my internet history site that I run via Eleventy and Cloudflare (and Buttondown for email delivery); and my personal websi
By Richard MacManus (3 posts)
Automating my links list
How I automated my Instapaper โlikedโ articles into a clean, sorted JSON feed for my 11ty site โ with date normalisation, HTML stripping, and deduplication, all running daily via GitHub Actions.
By Juan Fernandes (4 posts)
Whatโs 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. Iโd avoided the consistently recommended Pagefind because I didnโt like...
By Bix Frankonis (1 post)
Fixing Tags, Categories, and RSS in Our Eleventy Blog
A quick write-up covering three issuesโ/tags 404s, empty /categories, and a 404 /feed.xmlโand how we resolved them with Eleventy collections and a small filter.
By Brennan Kenneth Brown (2 posts)
Solving my Image Dimension Problem with an Eleventy Transform
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
By Brian Cantoni (6 posts)
How to Add Playwright Automated Tests to an Eleventy Static Blog
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
By Brian Cantoni (6 posts)
Building the IndieWeb Blog Template โ A Technical Postmortem
A deep-dive into making a production-ready Eleventy blog template with robust E2E tests, accessibility, and clean UI patterns.
By Brennan Kenneth Brown (2 posts)
Updated My Draft System
How I Built This Website (With 11ty & CraftCMS)
Matt Richards - Senior Staff Product Engineer / Engineering Lead based in Berlin.
By Matthew Richards (1 post)
Cloudflare domain hitches
DNS and SSL certificate gotcha when finding a new home for a website
By John Skiles Skinner (2 posts)
Formatting maths in Eleventy with KaTeX
A blog on software development and other stuff
By Glyn Normington (4 posts)
Cache-Busting Assets in Eleventy
Generate a sourcemap and add it to Eleventyโs global data.
By Aleksandr Hovhannisyan (14 posts)
A Subtle Footgun in Eleventyโs Default Permalink Algorithm
How using a date-based directory structure for your site can bite you in the ass.
By Evan Sheehan (8 posts)
Blogging in markdown
Adding notes to an eleventy blog
Replacing WriteFreely with eleventy
One weird trick to reduce Eleventy Image Build Times by 60%
11ty Meetup #25: Presentation of Kaj Kandler
Presenting this Eleventy Starter Project and Schema Markup tutorial at 11ty Meetup
By Kaj Kandler (1 post)
Migrating An Eleventy Site to Bunny.Net
Chris McLeod is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. Sometimes he writes about it.
By Chris McLeod (7 posts)
Scheduled deployments for Eleventy websites
Using HTMX boosted links in my 11ty website
Boosting links is a powerful technique that makes the navigation between pages of a statically generated website smoother.
By Rigotti (1 post)
Completing the I18nPlugin installation
This is the second part of my experiment to standardize the structure of my blog using the built-in I18nPlugin
By Francis Beaudet (2 posts)
How To Use eleventy-img (To Optmize Images In Eleventy) With Caching (To Keep Build Times Low) On Cloudflare Pages (Which Can't Cache Optimize Images Out Of The Box)
The Problem Cloudflare offers build caching for static site generators like Eleventy . Both are powering this blog. Great.โฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Making a multilingual website with Eleventy
When I made my web site multilingual, I did it all manually. I decided to try using the built-in I18nPlugin to see if I could do it in a more standard way. Here's how it went.
By Francis Beaudet (2 posts)
Data vs. Collections in Eleventy
Building a digital bookshelf with Eleventy
Managing a personal reading list with Eleventy and the OpenLibrary API
By Damian Walsh (3 posts)
Custom CLI tool to link Mastodon posts and blog posts
We migrated our site to Eleventy and increased performance by 24%
How choosing the right tool for the job led to faster load times and fewer dependencies.
By Dan Webb (1 post)
Migrating WordPress To Eleventy
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
By Brian Cantoni (6 posts)
Random page feature for a static site with Eleventy
To celebrate International RNG Day, I built a page that redirects you to a random blog post on my site.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
Proper Sitemap Update Dates for Eleventy
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
By Brian Cantoni (6 posts)
Creating a website from Obsidian
I created a couple of websites from an Obsidian vault using the Digital Garden plugin.
By Stephen Gower (1 post)
Marking blog posts as drafts in 11ty
I had a look at enabling drafts for this site again, and it turned out that, in current versions, it is very easy to do.
By Tobias Fedder (7 posts)
Website updates
Logging some updates Iโve made to my 11ty-powered website
By Laurence Hughes (4 posts)
Nice Permalinks In Eleventy AND Nice Filenames in Obsidian
A while ago I made a post about how to change (part of) the permalink that Eleventy generates from the filename. Since Iโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Generating LLMs.txt Using Eleventy
Large Language Models are increasingly relying on information found on the web, but often struggle to handle most websites in their entirety because the context windows are too small. In an...
By Ariel Salminen (2 posts)
Uploading Images For Your Eleventy Blog to Cloudflare R2 from Obsidian
At some point I will write about my Obsidian as a blog editor setup in more detail, but I just wanted to make a note here,โฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Why I Don't Use Wordpress
I don't use WordPress. Instead, I build faster, simpler, more reliable websites with Jamstack tools like 11ty, Pages CMS and Netlify โ and here's why.
By Ryan Gittings (4 posts)
Building a Printfulโpowered eโcommerce site with 11ty and Stripe
A behind-the-scenes look at how I built a fast, modern eโcommerce site using 11ty, Printful, and Stripe. Learn how to fetch product data, auto-generate category pages, and create a lightweight cart and checkout experienceโwithout a CMS.
By Juan Fernandes (4 posts)
Creating proportional, equal-height image rows with CSS, 11ty, and Nunjucks
Hi, Iโm Jeremy. I build things on the web and share what I learn on my blog.
By Jeremy Robert Jones (1 post)
'Built with Eleventy' Animated 88x31
I was tagged several days ago on Mastodon, as someone was looking for a "90s-style 88x31 footer GIF" for pages built with Eleventy, and [... I] gave animating the badge a shot!
By Chris Burnell (8 posts)
How to import() a Javascript string
Poaster: Solving SSG Microblogging Ergonomics with Ruby and KDialog
Trying to make it a little less brutal to make small, frequent posts on SSGs.
By Nathan Upchurch (4 posts)
From Nunยญjucks to Vento in Eleventy: a migration guide (kinda)
A few tips to refactor your njk into vto.
By Christopher Kirk-Nielsen (14 posts)
An Obsidian Template To Create A File At The Right Location
In my blog, this post you're reading right now can be found at the following path in the repo: content/blog/2025/06/03/obsidian-templater-file-creation-template.mdโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
11ty RSS Feed Setup: Three Plugin Problems and How I Fixed Them
Dependency management, configuration conflicts, and deprecated APIs while setting up RSS feeds in 11ty
By Simon Rosenqvist (1 post)
Calculating yearsSince using a Nunjucks filter in Eleventy
Writing statistics for your Eleventy (11ty) blog
A short tutorial on how to create a writing stats page for Eleventy.
By Andrew Ward (5 posts)
How I migrated from WordPress to Eleventy
Hey there! Iโm Elwin, a design-oriented frontend engineer and hobbyist artist who loves building for the web and making things with my hands.
By Elwin van Eede (1 post)
How To Implement Favs In Eleventy
An easy way to implement favs - favorites, likes, kudos or whatever you want to call them - is by using a little bit of HTML,โฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Migrated to Static Site (Eleventy)
Software engineering leader and occasional side project hacker.
By Brian Cantoni (6 posts)
Building Search Index with Eleventy
One of the features that Iโm 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)
A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions
Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics โ you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! โ using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.
By Reilly Spitzfaden (3 posts)
Vento: My Favourite Template Language for Eleventy
I have switched to using Vento as the template engine in my websites built with Eleventy, and I love it.
By Helen Chong (7 posts)
yearsSince
JavaScript that calculates the number of years that have passed since a given date, utilized in an Eleventy shortcode.
By Marc Amos (1 post)
A Slightly Improved Image Gallery for Eleventy
Blog about programming, scientific machine learning and the related techniques and methods.
By Valentin Pratz (2 posts)
Providing next event as API with Eleventyโs Global Data Files and Netlify Functions
I wanted to provide a programmatic access to the next event in our communityโs event calendar and combined Eleventy and Netlify Functions to achieve it.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
Eleventy v3.1.0 is now availableโโโ11% faster and 22% smaller!
Eleventy v3.1.0 is now available โ 11% faster and 22% smaller! โ Eleventy
By Zach Leatherman (55 posts)
How I built dynamic social media images in Eleventy using Cloudinary
My not very sophisticated but very understandable approach to making social media share images for a blog in Eleventy.
By Chip Cullen (2 posts)
How To Make Eleventy Understand Obsidian-style Callouts
I really like callouts as a concept. If you're unfamiliar, they are a way to make a part of a note or post stand out. Becauseโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Moving the Blog to 11ty
Running 11ty and PHP concurrently
Now that I have several sections of this site served dynamically using PHP I've finally put together a single command to work on the site locally.
By Cory Dransfeldt (46 posts)
blog - obsidian templates and use
about the templates i use in obsidian to create drafts and posts
By actuallysomecat (4 posts)
A Test of Eleventy Fetch
Taking VentoJS for a spin in Elevยญenty
Double-Pagination in Elevยญenty
Yo dawg, I heard you liked pagination, so I added pagination inside your paginated pages, so you can paginate while you paginate.
By Christopher Kirk-Nielsen (14 posts)
How I write and publish blog posts in April 2025
Itโs time for documenting my current stack and process for writing and publishing a blog post.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
Using Notion as CMS with Eleventy
In this article we'll walk through how to use my eleventy-from-notion plugin, so you'll be able to use Notion as your CMS to use with your Eleventy setup.
By vrugtehagel (2 posts)
Eleventy: A GitHub Workflow to Check if an Automated Dependency Update Would Break Your Site
A little safety measure to prevent updates to package.json, package-lock.json, and .nvmrc (or similar) from causing a hiccup.
By Jens Oliver Meiert (3 posts)
Magick images
Iโve upgraded my siteโs social media preview images, using a combination of ImageMagick and Eleventy. Hereโs entirely too many words about how I made it all happen.
By Ethan Marcotte (2 posts)
How To Make Eleventy Understand Obsidian-style Wiki Links
I have started to use Obsidian as my blog editor and because of that I needed a simple way to make eleventy understand wikiโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Letterboxd to Markdown
A small node script to create a markdown file for each movie review in a Letterboxd RSS feed
By Keith Kurson (3 posts)
How I Run Eleventy (Itโs Complicated?)
Aliases, debug mode, non-versioned builds as part of a centralized, versioned site exports repoโand the thinking behind it all.
By Jens Oliver Meiert (3 posts)
Adding base64 placeholder background images to eleventy-img
Add a low-quality webp placeholder image to the HTML of your site
By Stefan Burke (4 posts)
Dynamically creating QR codes in Eleventy
A brief update to how I write these posts
By Paul Capewell (2 posts)
Rendering FreeMarker and Python page templates with 11ty
11ty, FreeMarker Generator, and Chameleon allow me to render FreeMarker and Python page templates to HTML within the same static site generator.
By Tobias Fedder (7 posts)
Generating content driven CSS with Eleventy
Why spend an hour writing CSS when you can spend four hours creating classes on the fly?
By Sami (1 post)
Journal Eleventy, prรฉsentation et mini-tutoriel
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)
I moved my website to CloudFlare Pages, hereโs why
I switched the hosting of my personal website from Netlify to CloudFlare Pages yesterday. Here is why.
By Rob O'Leary (13 posts)
How My Terminal Text WebC Component Works_
Thank you for thinking out loud
By John Michael Swartz (1 post)
Creating a blogroll page from Mastodon bookmarks
How I built a page with a list of the toots I have bookmarked in Mastodon.
By Simon Cox (16 posts)
eleventy-plugin-skiplink
This article is about: How and why I created a plugin to automatically create a skiplink for 11ty
By David Moll (2 posts)
Moving 18 years of comments out of Disqus and into my 11ty static site
By Sacha Chua (4 posts)
Check the speedometer on the brand new Blog Awesome (now with 11ty)
News and information from Font Awesome โ the internetโs favorite icon set; mixed with musings and nerdery from the team behind it.
By Zach Leatherman (55 posts)
Updating my website
By Denis Ricard (1 post)
Tweaking my 11ty blog to link to the Mastodon post defined in an Org Mode property
By Sacha Chua (4 posts)
Use Passthrough File Copy to Add Assets
Learn how to use the Passthrough File Copy feature to add static assets like CSS and JS to the output directory in the Eleventy (11ty) site.
By Danial Zahid (6 posts)
Migrating to Eleventy
I am writing about my experiences as a self-employed web developer and designer.
By Marc Jenkins (1 post)
11ty Font Awesome SVG Plugin
Using 11ty plugin for font awesome svg icons with no clientside javascript
By equilibriumuk (19 posts)
Creating A Navigation Menu For the Eleventy Base Blog
Just a quick note on the fact that this blog now has a custom main navigation that can grow past the five or so items thatโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Announcing WordPress Export to Markdown v3
Iโm happy to announce the release of WordPress Export to Markdown v3! With this milestone, I figured Iโd take a moment to share some backstory and talk about...
By Will Boyd (1 post)
11ty Meetup: Blog Awesome from WordPress to Eleventy
Moving to Eleventy
Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist
By Sarah Reichelt (1 post)
11ty Math
By Brian Kardell (1 post)
I launched this little blog on 11ty, and I am excited about it.
I put off building this website for over a year and then I whipped it together in 3 short evenings. I will, once again, of course, be learning no lessons about procrastination from this.
By Thomas Rumbold (1 post)
List blog posts grouped by year with Eleventy
A short guide on how to display blog posts grouped by year for a blog listing page in Eleventy using Nunjucks templating.
By Juha-Matti Santala (22 posts)
Eleventy's Image Plugin Disk Caching Approach For HTML Transform Method
In this guide, I'll walk you through an approach of utilizing disk cache while using the HTML transform method of the eleventy image plugin. Disk cache is a persistent cache which allows you to not re-optimize every single image at every single build. However, there are some caveats which I ran
By Murtuzaali Surti (5 posts)
Generating absolute URLs in my RSS feed(s)
My RSS feeds are generated by 11ty at build time from a Liquid.js template. When I wrote posts and link elsewhere on my site I use a bookmarklet to capture the URI for linking. To ensure I have absolute URLs in my feeds, I use a filter to convert said
By Cory Dransfeldt (46 posts)
Linking local node packages for development in PNPM
A personal blog documenting webdev, life with ADHD, home cooking, self-hosting, and much more
By Ryan Killeen (1 post)
Swapping from Vue to Eleventy
Extract Colors from an Image for CSS Themes
How I Built Shopify Theme Vitals using 11ty and CrUX
Building a site that shows real-user web performance data by Shopify theme using HTTP Archive, the Chrome User Experience Report, BigQuery, Node, and 11ty
By Sia Karamalegos (13 posts)
11ty Obsidian & Github Style Alert Blocks
Adding Obsidian & Github Style Alert / Callout Blocks Using 11ty and markdown-it Plugins
By equilibriumuk (19 posts)
11ty Markdown External Links Plugin
Setting target _blank and rel noopener noreferrer to external links using markdown-it + 11ty
By equilibriumuk (19 posts)
Building a personal digital music library with Eleventy and APIs
Building a personal digital music library with Eleventy and APIs
By Damian Walsh (3 posts)
Introducing the "Chobble Template"
Welcome to my new new website!
Hello and welcome to my _NEW_ new website. If everything goes well, it should look almost exactly the same[^1].Around nine years ago, I set this website up with Jekyll and GitHub Pages. Since the...
By zmknox (1 post)
Adding a Button to Copy Code Snippets
How I added a button to copy code snippets to my website with JavaScript.
By Helen Chong (7 posts)
I made an Eleventy & Nix static site template
Clone my repository to get an Eleventy site built on NixOS quick sharp
By Stefan Burke (4 posts)
How To Remove A Folder From The Generated Permalinks In Eleventy
When I moved to Eleventy with this blog, I made the "mistake" to organize my blogposts into a subdirectory called blog. Inโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
Presenting an episode on your site
Building a resume website with eleventy
i share how i built a fully customizable resume website with eleventy, complete with seo-friendly features and pdf generation.
By Keith Kurson (3 posts)
Better YouTube Embeds ~77% Faster
YouTube videos were significantly slowing down posts, so discovered this better technique.
By DeepakNess (4 posts)
The markdown filters your Eleventy project needs
Migrating from my old Jekyll site to Eleventy meant two things, I lost a lot of out-of-the-box helpers, but at the same time gained the flexibility to extend any part of my site build pipeline via JavaScript.
By Jeremias Menichelli (1 post)
Implementing Webmentions
Dynamic pages with PHP and 11ty
When I moved this site to my own hosting I rewrote the dynamic code that had previously been handled by edge functions in PHP. To speed up build times and make things scale nicely as I add more content and pages, I recreated my media pag
By Cory Dransfeldt (46 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 solutionโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
11ty and OG images
How To Add Footnotes To Eleventy
An easy way to add footnotes to Eleventy is to use an existing plugin for markdown-it , which is what Eleventy uses internallyโฆ
By Martin Hรคhnel (14 posts)
fr1end1y ๐งก๐
A website starter kit I am developing that combines Umbraco, "the friendly CMS", with Eleventy, "a simpler static site generator".
By Steven Harland (1 post)
11ty
Building with an 11ty starter sites and headless WordPress
Learning the Eleventy base blog and whether It can serve as a static frontend to the WordPress CMS.
By David Waumsley (3 posts)
Create New Posts Faster in 11ty
A quick guide on how to create new posts faster in 11ty.
By DeepakNess (4 posts)
Webmentions Without Plugins
At yesterday's Pacific Homebrew Website Club meeting, I got some great feedback and was able to figure out making my own code to bring in webmentions!
By Reilly Spitzfaden (3 posts)
11ty Meetup - How I built my Books page
I presented at the 11ty Meetup on how I built my Books page. Here's the video and a link to a PDF of the slides.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
Configuring your Content-Security-Policy on your development environment in 11ty
In this post, I investigate how you can use a mixture of dynamic and static Brotli compression with the Cloudflare Pro plan, for optimal web performance.
By Matt Hobbs (7 posts)
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)
Loading Pixelfed Photos with Eleventy
Set Up a Simple and Reliable Static Site Generator Using 11ty (Eleventy) + Tailwind CSS
https://nodejs.org/en/download https://git-scm.com/downloads Tailwind CSS will compile Tailwind CSS classes to CSS and Tailwind CLI will allow us to runโฆ
By Abdullah Yahya (1 post)
Adding Prettier in Eleventy using Transforms
Bernard Nijenhuis โข Front-end Developer โข Katwijk, The Netherlands โข Father of 3 kids โข Husband to 1 wife โข Owner of 2 cats
By Bernard Nijenhuis (8 posts)
Eleventy, Open Graph images and fun?
Ok, this is my 'final' final word on RSS entry IDs
I've been able to fully automate the process of creating, at initial post time, a unique and permanent ID for each RSS feed entry.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
I wanted to validate the presence of an rssid in my front matter
Rather than have my RSS entry ID be missing, I wanted to validate its presence at build time.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
Managing My Books Data
Why do something manually (that takes a few seconds to do), when a script (created over the course of several hours) can do it for you?
By Spencer Harston (2 posts)
My last word on RSS entry IDs
In an effort to create more robust and truly unique and permanent IDs for my RSS feed entries, I built a thing to help.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
Let's create a plaintext RSS feed with 11ty
In this post I tackle something from my post-MVW (Minimum Viable Website) functionality to do list, by adding a plaintext RSS Feed. I'll take you through my reasons for adding it, the implementation, and the code I used to create it.
By Matt Hobbs (7 posts)
Creating a 'new blog entry' shortcut for creating blog posts in nano for eleventy
By Paul Capewell (2 posts)
Displaying Webmentions
I finally figured out displaying webmentions on my site without any client-side JavaScript!
By Reilly Spitzfaden (3 posts)
Integrating Eleventy with Buttondown to create subscribers-only content
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)
Creating permanently unique entry IDs for RSS
I was inspired to create permanently unique entry IDs for my RSS feed after reading a post by Evan Sheehan.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)
Building a seasonal veg app with Eleventy. Part 5 - Scheduled functions with Netlify
Netlify has this feature in beta called . When I came across it, it sounded like a nice solution to the issue I mentioned in where I didn't want to intr...
By Yasmin (5 posts)
Securing 11ty with SSL Locally
How to configure your eleventy serve process with ssl for localhost
By Clayton Errington (19 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)
Creating a Books Page
How and why I decided to create a Books page to keep track of my reading.
By Spencer Harston (2 posts)
Building a seasonal veg app with Eleventy. Part 3 - Deploy with Netlify
Now that the basics of the app is done, its time to deploy. I felt like I had 3 choices: Github pages, Netlify or Vercel. All offer free services and al...
By Yasmin (5 posts)
The Speed Trifecta: 11ty, Brotli 11, and CSS Fingerprinting
In this post I bring two previous blog posts together to create the perfect CSS setup for my little blog.
By Matt Hobbs (7 posts)
Long-term WordPress user tries building with 11ty
Building a seasonal veg app with Eleventy. Part 4 - Accessibility
After my first deploy, I did a quick check with Lighthouse to see how my metrics are looking. I need 100 for all if I want to do well in the leade...
By Yasmin (5 posts)
Building a seasonal veg app with Eleventy. Part 1
I wanted to learn for fun. Looking for inspo on what to build, I came across their which lists sites built with Eleventy that are top performing in Ligh...
By Yasmin (5 posts)
11ty Blog Rewrite Hotfix
hi there! please enjoy my blog of things i think are interesting
By Melanie Kat (2 posts)
Rewriting My Astro Blog with Eleventy
hi there! please enjoy my blog of things i think are interesting
By Melanie Kat (2 posts)
Inquirer.js
An increasing number of posts appears to be focusing on how to get content *out* of WordPress. Lol. Well needs
By Rich Holman (2 posts)
Build-time og:image generation with eleventy-img
Adding Bluesky Comments to 11ty Blog
You can easily add Bluesky comments to 11ty blog with web components
By Joseph Jude (2 posts)
Three titles (podcaster plugin)
Documentation website for eleventy-plugin-podcaster.
By Nathan Bottomley (2 posts)
O(M)G Images
Rewriting in Eleventy (again)
Why I rewrote this site with Eleventy after a two-year sojourn with Astro.
By Sean McPherson (3 posts)
Creating a custom Slugify filter in Eleventy
I'm from Finland, so I want to have Nordic slugs for my sites.
By Sami Mรครคttรค (6 posts)
Using an 11ty Shortcode to craft a custom CSS pipeline
In this blog post, I'll show you how I've written an 11ty Shortcode to manipulate my CSS file, thus allowing for optimal long-life cache-control response headers. Any feedback on this build process would be greatly appreciated.
By Matt Hobbs (7 posts)
Automagically generating a robots.txt file in Eleventy using data and Nunjucks
Writing some code to make better a thing I've been doing manually.
By Thomas Rigby (8 posts)
WP.SCSS
Increasingly I've been including 11ty in my WordPress builds as part of the theme. Great for static assets, such as
By Rich Holman (2 posts)
Display Plausible Statistics in Your 11ty Blog
How to display popular and trending blog posts using Plausible Analytics and 11ty. Follow this step-by-step guide for seamless API integration.
By Joseph Jude (2 posts)
Cranking Brotli up to 11 with Cloudflare Pro and 11ty
In this post I investigate how you can use a mixture of dynamic and static Brotli compression with the Cloudflare Pro plan, for optimal web performance.
By Matt Hobbs (7 posts)
How I built the Books page
I went live with my Books page a short while ago. Here's how I built it.
By Bob Monsour (20 posts)