Adding a Guestbook to Your Jamstack Site (Yes, Seriously)

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Don’t do this. I’m serious. Or do it, I certainly don’t listen to reason when it comes to building demos. I’ve been in web development for a very, very long time, and I’ve seen many trends come and go. Guestbooks were a way for folks to leave a comment on your site as a whole. I haven’t seen one in ages, but some still linger. In fact, Ana Rodrigues has an absolutely lovely guestbook driven by Webmentions. And if you really want to, you can still download a Perl CGI guestbook over at Matt’s Script Archive. I haven’t written Perl in decades, but I absolutely loved it back in the 90s. That being said, I had a free hour yesterday, was bored, and decided,... more →
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Adding Download Support in an Eleventy Site

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I was thinking recently about how I would add "Downloads" support to an Eleventy site. By that I mean, a site where you have various resources (PDFs, zip, etc) and want to provide a way to let users download them in a consistent manner, as well as how basic tracking could be done as well. I came up with a few ideas I’d like to share, but as always, please let me know what you’ve done and what you would suggest. Method 1 – Meta Refresh For my first attempt, I imagined a site where I’ve got some files up in S3 (like I do for my images here) and I’d like to take a directory and set them up as resources. So for example, imagine a _data file named downloads.json: {... more →
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7 Ways to Optimize Performance for Your WordPress Site (Sponsored)

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The vast majority of blogs, news websites, and information websites run on WordPress. While the WordPress developer team and community do their best to ensure wordPress is performant, there are a number of practices you can implement to keep your site blazing fast. Let’s look at some of them! Use Cloudinary WordPress Plugin for Media Cloudinary is the most dynamic media transformation, delivery, and optimization service on the internet. With Cloudinary you can: Deliver optimized images, audio, and video per device, platform, and browser Use the Cloudinary API or querystring parameters to customize media on the fly Take advantage of client side JavaScript libraries to create image viewers,... more →
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Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site – Part 2

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A few weeks ago I blogged about how to include RSS data in your Eleventy site: Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site. Last week, I had the honor of giving my first presentation to the Eleventy Meetup and for that talk, I took my earlier code and iterated on it a bit to show more examples and add a bit more usefulness to the tip. If you want to watch that presentation, you can do so below (and see @jeromecoupe excellent tal too!). I thought I’d also share the updates here for folks who prefer reading over wathing a video. Raymond Camden… more →
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Including RSS Content in your Eleventy Site

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Before I begin, this post is not about generating an RSS page with Eleventy. If you need to do that, check the plugin that makes it (mostly) trivial to do. This post is about consuming RSS for your Eleventy site. I’ve got a page here (About) where I track my external articles and books. At work, we use Medium to host our blog and I’ve been publishing there as part of my job. I was curious how I could get that content on my About page as well. Raymond Camden… more →
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