Juha-Matti Santala
Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.

Blog posts in category “Eleventy”

Blog posts about my website projects with Eleventy

  • Apr 24th, 2024
    The Future of Jamstack panel discussion

    We had a great discussion about the future of Jamstack community with Mike, Benedicte, Sean and Miriam.

  • Apr 13th, 2024
    index.md is a valid Eleventy project

    Building website projects from the scratch with Eleventy is a delightful process in my experience because in the beginning, all you need is index.md and you can then customise and add on top of it as much as you like.

  • Feb 28th, 2024
    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.

  • Feb 26th, 2024
    THE Eleventy Meetup Feb 20th

    We had a lovely meetup with the Eleventy community. I talked about building meetup community sites utilizing Global Data Files and Robb talked about how he builds his website with Eleventy, pulling data in from various sources.

  • Jan 24th, 2024
    Community websites with Eleventy

    With Eleventy’s data files, I’ve come up with a good setup to build landing pages for communities that organize events.

  • Jan 6th, 2024
    Workaround for Notion’s lack of heading levels

    Notion only allows heading levels 1-3 to be used but often I find myself needing for more levels. I wrote a workaround to not let technical restrictions limit my creativity.

  • Oct 28th, 2023
    Showing most popular posts with Netlify Analytics

    I built a functionality to my Eleventy blog to fetch most visited blog posts from Netlify’s analytics and show them on my blog

  • Aug 28th, 2023
    Custom cookie consent for video embeds

    Occasionally I want to embed Youtube videos or social media posts on my blog but wanted a clean and straight-forward way to deal with cookie consent. So I built my first version for Youtube embeds.

  • Aug 22nd, 2023
    Website rewrite and switching to Notion as CMS

    This website served me well for almost 5 years with minor improvements, tweaks and hacks. Now, it was time for a total rewrite and upgrading my stack and tools.

  • Jul 26th, 2023
    Blog comments via Mastodon

    After half a year of pondering, I finally wrote a bit of code to add comments to my blog via Mastodon replies.