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Eleventy By Example

You're reading from   Eleventy By Example Create powerful, performant websites with a static-first strategy

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610497
Length 198 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bryan Robinson Bryan Robinson
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Setting Up Your Website 2. Chapter 2: Adding Data to Your 11ty Website FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Deploying to a Static Site Host 4. Chapter 4: Building a Blog with Collections 5. Chapter 5: Creating Custom Shortcodes to Add Mixed Media to Markdown 6. Chapter 6: Building a Photography Site with the 11ty Image Plugin 7. Chapter 7: Building a Podcast Website with 11ty Plugins and Custom Outputs 8. Chapter 8: Creating a Static-Site Search with 11ty Serverless and Algolia 9. Chapter 9: Integrating 11ty with a Headless CMS 10. Chapter 10: Creating Custom 11ty Plugins 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating Custom Shortcodes to Add Mixed Media to Markdown

Now that we have a basic blog, let’s make that blog stand out with various forms of media. The flavor of Markdown that 11ty uses allows for the use of HTML, so we could embed things like YouTube videos or CodePen pens with their basic HTML embeds, but that can be a lot of repetitive markup that needs to be added and modified on each blog post. Custom shortcodes allow us to set a standard template for each of these types of media and use a simplified tag in the Markdown files of our blog posts (and in any of our templates, as well).

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following basics of 11ty’s shortcodes and set up three different shortcodes to make our blog posts more fully featured:

  • What is a shortcode?
  • Creating a YouTube embed
  • Creating a custom blockquote with semantic HTML
  • Creating a CodePen embed with a customizable display

By the end of this chapter, we’ll have a fully...

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