A minimal Eleventy starter created from first principles thinking.

• archive.njk - Unpaginated blog layout

• blog.njk - Paginated blog layout

  Options:

  • excerpts: true Show excerpts in postList.
  • dates: true Show dates in postList.

• post.njk - Blog post layout

• page.njk - Page layout

• Stylesheet < 2KB
• Author support
  • Set default author globally in _data/site.js.
  • Overwrite default author in any post or page by setting author: in front matter.
• Post estimated reading time.
• Post ordinal dates.
• lastModified: Update post date. This will also update sitemap.xml and feed.xml dates.
• canonical: Link to a guest post on another site by setting an external url in front matter.
• Open Graph
• Twitter Cards
• Tags archive
  • DuplicatePermalinkOutputError Error thrown when you have duplicate tags. For example "Eleventy Themes" and "eleventy themes" tags would both create /eleventy-themes/ urls.
• Atom feed
• Sitemap
  • excludeFromSitemap: true Exclude external pages from your sitemap.
• 404 page
• metaRobots: Overwrite meta robots tag in front matter.
  • ELEVENTY_ENV=development is set to noindex, nofollow.
  • ELEVENTY_ENV=production is set to index, follow.

MIT