Pages Tagged “Eleventy”

Tech Tips

Eleventy data cascade not picking up front matter on layouts (Obsolete) Fixed in 1.0.1: Eleventy normally combines the front matter in layouts along with the templates, data files, etc…unless the layout is set globally.
Share to the Fediverse with ShareOpenly A share button that connects to Mastodon, Bluesky, Micro.blog, Threads and more. Here’s how I’ve hooked it up to Eleventy.
WordPress Complexity vs. Eleventy WordPress has gotten complicated to run, complicated to use, complicated to render… Eleventy is complicated too, but only to set up.

Switching to Eleventy I converted this blog from WordPress to Eleventy, a static site generator that should make the site both faster and easier to maintain.

Ideas for Unifying a Fragmented Website
My website’s built with a mix of WordPress, hand-coded HTML, and multiple Eleventy instances, which means tags and search are fragmented.
(Feb 2024)
Overstuffed Websites
I’m not ready to give up on the flexibility of WordPress for my main blog yet, but holy crap are these pages heavy. Even with compression. There’s no reason it should take 450K (before compression) and 20 requests to display a 500-word post. And I don’t even do ads, popups, social sharing buttons or anything […]
(Nov 2021)