11ty-no-style-please

A minimalist blog template for the eleventy static site generator. Inspired by no-style-please. It has Netlify CMS built in and can deploy to Netlify in one click so you can start writing posts right away.

Check out the demo page

Features

Simple design
Fast, minimal amount of CSS to download
Pre-configured CMS
Easy to use and deploy
Fully responsive

Usage

The simplest way to use this template is to deploy it on Netlify using this button:

After deploying it to Netlify, you will be invited to join the CMS by email. After accepting the invite and setting a password you can start change the site's settings, and creating posts from within the CMS.

You can also run eleventy locally and then deploy it manually:

1. Clone the repository ( or use it as a template then clone )

git clone https://github.com/stopnoanime/11ty-no-style-please

2. Install the required packages

npm i

3. Serve the site for local development

npm start

4. Build the site

npm run build

5. Deploy the site

You can either connect your repository to Netlify to enable automatic deploy (recommended), or manually copy the site files from _site to them.

Configuration

All configuration can be easily changed from within the Netlify CMS at SITE_URL/admin. If you prefer to do so, you can also manually edit the configuration files with a text editor.

All configuration files are located in the _data folder and are in json format. Here I describe what each field means:

- site.json

title: default page title
description: global page description
language: HTML language value
back_home_text: text to show on "back home" button on every post
url: site url, used in Netlify CMS

- homepage.json

title: homepage title
subtitle: text to show under homepage title
menu: The menu object, configures how the menu looks

- The menu object

It should be an array of entires, each entry has the following parameters:

title: entry title
url: if set, the entry is a link pointing to this url
post_list: accepts a string, if set, the entry will show a nested list of all posts with the tag that post_list is set to
entries: an nested array of entries with the same available parameters

For example use, look at the default menu object

"menu": [
    {
        "title": "read more here",
        "entries": [
            {
                "title": "github",
                "url": "http://github.com/stopnoanime/11ty-no-style-please"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "title": "all posts with the 'post' tag",
        "post_list": "post"
    }
]

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