eleventy-plugin-blog

Zero config blog features for 11ty

This plugin still requires a bit of love in terms of documentation. See my personal blog code to see all examples of use.

Features

• Tags, Categories and API to create new taxonomies (paginated)
• Calendar (paginated)

Installation

npm install --save eleventy-plugin-blog
# OR
yarn add eleventy-plugin-blog

Usage

Runnoing examples

Go to the folder with given example and run:

../../generate-examples.js -o . -n 500
npx @11ty/eleventy

All massive output will be created balazzingly fast to show you how it works.

Basic

To start using you just need to add the plugin into your .eleventy.js file.

module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
  eleventyConfig.addPlugin(require("eleventy-plugin-blog"));
};

This will produce following collections:

• blog all posts, paginated
• blog_flat all posts, flat
• all all pages (using native 11ty)
• pages all pages with frontmatter page: true
• tag posts grouped by tags, paginated
• category posts grouped by categories, paginated
• category_list list of all categories
• tag_list list of all tags
• calendar posts grouped by year or year and month, paginated

See example zero config for all templates.

Complex

• See my blog repository: https://github.com/sielay/sielay.com

API

Example template for rendering Page[]

See life example

<ul>
{%- for post in postslist.items -%}
  <li>
    {%- include 'tile.njk' -%}
  </li>
{%- endfor -%}
</ul>

paginate(options): IndexPage[]

Create paginated index of pages

Options

Field	Type	Description
pages	Iterable	Collection of 11ty pages
slug	String	Slug to be applied (see notes below)
prefix	String	Slug prefix
title	String	Given title
meta	Object | Undefiend	Additional data to bound to each index page (see generateCalendar
itemsPerPage	Number	Number of 11ty pages on each index page
sortBlog	Function | Undefined

Slugs will be generated as follows:

• First page ${slug}
• Every next page ${slug}/page-${pageNumber}

IndexPage

Field	Type	Description
title	String	Given title
slug	String	Generated slug (as described above)
pagenumber	Number	Number of given page (starting from 0)
url	String	Concatenated value from prefix and slug
total	Number	Number of pages
slugs	Slugs
items	Page[]	11typ pages on given page
...meta		Anything that came from meta input

Slugs

Field	Type	Description
all	String[]	List of all pages slugs
next	String | Null	Slug of the next page
previous	String | Null	Slug of the previous page
first	String | Null	Slug of the first page
last	String | Null	Slug of the last page

Example template

See live example

---
title: Blog
pagination:
  data: collections.blog
  size: 1
  alias: postslist
permalink: /blog/{%- if postslist.pagenumber > 0 -%}{{ postslist.pagenumber }}{%- endif -%}/index.html
topNav: postslist.pagenumber == 0
---
{%- include 'postslist.njk' -%}

generatePaginatedBlog(eleventyConfig, Options)

Generates simple paginated blog. Uses paginage over given blog globs and can apply template

Options

Field	Type	Description
blogPostTemplate	String | Undefined	Path to blog post template
blog	String[]	Globs for blog posts
itemsPerPage	Number	Custom number of items per page

See live example - indirect use

For a template example see paginate.

generateCalendar(eleventyConfig, Options)

Generates calendar grouping by years and months.

Options

Field	Type	Description
blog	String[]	Globs for blog posts
itemsPerPage	Number	Custom number of items per page

IndexPage objects generated here will be extended using meta field with

Field	Type	Description
year	String	Year for annual group
month	String | Undefined	Month for monthly group
type	'year' | 'month'	Type of group
shortTitle	String | Undefined	Formatted title for month groups

Template examples

• Paginated calendar page
• Years index widget
• Months by years index widget collection

generateTaxonomy(eleventyConfig, Options)

TBD

generateBooleanCollection(eleventyConfig, Options)

TBD

Filtes

blog_top

TBD

blog_slug

TBD

blog_dateformat

TBD

blog_first

TBD

Kudos

Inspired by Jérôme Coupé