Eleventy Minimal Blog Theme

A clean, lightweight blog theme built with 11ty (Eleventy). Simple structure, minimal styling, and easy to customize.

✨ Features

• Minimal responsive layout
• Sidebar layout
• Blog post collections
• Archive page
• Clean CSS (no framework)
• Easy to extend

📦 Tech Stack

• Eleventy (11ty)
• Nunjucks templates
• Markdown
• Vanilla CSS
• Vanilla JavaScript

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/your-repo-name.git
cd your-repo-name

2. Install dependencies

npm install

3. Run locally

npx @11ty/eleventy --serve

Site will run at:

http://localhost:8080

📁 Project Structure

.
├── _includes/        # Layouts & partials
├── _data/            # Global site data
├── posts/            # Blog posts
├── css/              # Styles
├── js/               # Scripts
├── index.md          # Homepage
├── archive.njk       # Archive page
└── .eleventy.js      # Eleventy config

📝 Creating a New Post

Create a Markdown file inside posts/:

---
title: My New Post
date: 2026-03-01
tags: [blog]
---

Your content here...

🎨 Customization

You can customize:

• Colors → css/style.css
• Layout → _includes/layout.njk
• Site metadata → _data/site.js
• Collections → .eleventy.js

📦 Build for Production

npx @11ty/eleventy

Output will be generated in the _site folder.

🌍 Deployment

Works great with:

• GitHub Pages
• Netlify
• Vercel
• Any static hosting provider

📄 License

MIT License — feel free to use and modify.