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A. LibbyBeginning Eleventy https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8315-8_1

1. Introducing Eleventy

Alex Libby1  
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Belper, Derbyshire, UK
 

Imagine the scenario – you’ve spent months building up a great blog or content-driven website using WordPress and are beginning to get some great comments from readers who visit and love what you’re writing about as content. One day, though, you wake up thinking, “my blog feels slow – surely there’s a better way to host the content, right?”

Absolutely – don’t get me wrong: WordPress is a great tool. However, people today want speed and ease of use over any technology that is slow and prone to being hacked. Enter static site ...

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