Tagged “eleventy”

Migrating WordPress To Eleventy July 12, 2025
After 11 years on WordPress, I moved this blog to Eleventy (11ty) and I'm very happy with the results. These are my notes on the background and process for anyone going through a similar move. ...
Proper Sitemap Update Dates for Eleventy July 10, 2025
Sitemaps are the recommended way to ensure search engines understand all the pages on your site. This site is pretty simple and I'm not sure whether a sitemap is strictly needed, but I had one with WordPress and I'd like to keep it going. One important piece for this 23 year old blog is signalling when old posts are updated, so I had to make sure my new Eleventy-powered site handled that piece correctly. ...
Migrated to Static Site (Eleventy) May 28, 2025
After a nice 11 year run on WordPress I have spent the last few weeks migrating this site to the Eleventy (11ty) static site generator and switched over on the 24th. WordPress was fun to learn and had some nice features, but in the end was overkill for what I needed and I tired of keeping up with version upgrades and recovering from spammers hacking my site. ...