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7. Creating Plugins

Alex Libby1  
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Belper, Derbyshire, UK
 

One of the things I love about Eleventy is how much we can do out of the box without extra plugins! However, if we want to, we can add features with custom plugins – this might be to use Sass, minify images, or manage features such as the heading tags in our site.

The list of plugins is increasing all the time, with plenty of examples available online (more on this anon). This chapter will look at how to create a plugin and work through the process to get it submitted and available for others to use. Let’s first start by answering ...

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