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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

Building a Podcast Website with 11ty Plugins and Custom Outputs

Not every website is built from just HTML. While HTML is the workhorse of the web, sometimes we need other formats.

In this chapter, we’ll dive into the wonderful world of RSS to create a website for a podcast. RSS has been around since 1999 and stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” In other words, it’s the proper format to provide data to other platforms. In fact, podcasting as we understand it today would never have happened without RSS.

While audio files weren’t new to the web, the mixture of audio files with the syndication options allowed with RSS created the first wave of podcasts and podcast directories. When Apple created functionality in iPods to play podcasts, they fully went with RSS for the format of how podcasts would be shared — going as far as to add custom RSS tags that would augment podcast display in their directories.

To build out a full podcast website...

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