A curated list of awesome Eleventy^11ty (soon Build Awesome)
starters, plugins, tutorials, sites and more ↗

• 2026-04-29 Build Awesome Pro Kickstarter AMA @YouTube
• 2026-04-28 New ongoing Kickstarter campaign 🎈
• 2026-03-23 The Possum Mascot, now with additional Awesome @11ty.dev
• 2026-03-20 Eleventy v4.0.0-alpha.7 released with a note:

  "this may be one of the last canary releases before you see some names start to change to Build Awesome"

• 2026-03-13 AMA about Build Awesome, an Open Town Hall with Zach Leatherman @YouTube
• 2026-03-03..06 Original Kickstarter campaign and why it was canceled @FA
• 2026-03-03 Official announcement @11ty.dev

See also:

• Static Site Generator Trends 2026-2040 @blades.ninja
• Eleventy icon in Font Awesome 😎

Modern v4 starters:

• 2026 Build Awesome Starter — Modern, lightweight Eleventy v4 starter with Tailwind/Pico, Blades, CMS and multisiting.
• 2026 Subtle — Probably the most .subtle blog starter template, yet customizable thanks to 11ty plugin, Pico and other Blades.

v3 starters:

• 2026 Base Blog — A starter repository for a blog web site using the Eleventy static site generator.
• 2026 Excellent — Eleventy starter with CUBE CSS, Every Layout and global design tokens. A workflow for modern & resilient websites, based on the CUBE CSS boilerplate.
• 2026 ZeroPoint — A modern, opinionated, bare-bones website starter that gets you "up to zero" on a project quickly and easily.
• 2026 elva — A multilingual, clean, green 11ty starter theme.

Minimally maintained:

• 2025 Netlify Boilerplate — A boilerplate for building a simple website with the Eleventy static site generator.

More starters:

• Curated list of ~40 starters @11tybundle.dev
• Curated list of ~10 minimal starters @blades.ninja
• Curated list of ~5 CMS starters @sveltiacms.app
• A larger list of 150+ community starters @11ty.dev

• 2026 Table of Contents — Simple and configurable table of contents generation for Eleventy.
• 2026 RSS — A pack of Eleventy plugins for generating an RSS feed.
• 2026 Fetch — Utility to cache any remote asset: Image, Video, Web Font, CSS, JSON, etc.
• 2026 Blades — Ultimate blade kit for 11ty (Build Awesome).
• 2025 Navigation — A plugin for creating hierarchical navigation in Eleventy projects. Supports breadcrumbs too!
• Community plugins ↗
• Even more plugins ↗

General guides:

• 2026 Learn Eleventy — This course is designed to give you a really solid understanding of Eleventy—even if you’ve never used it before.
• 2022 11ty Second 11ty by Bryan Robinson on Youtube
• 2019 Eleventy (11ty) Tutorials by Bryan Robinson on Youtube

Templating:

• 2026 Blades HTML — Generic Nunjucks/Liquid templates for 11ty/Build Awesome, Jekyll, Shopify, etc.
• More templating tricks ↗

Migration:

• 2018 Turn Jekyll up to Eleventy — An excellent article explaining the differences and similarities between Jekyll and 11ty.

Webmentions:

• 2019 Using Webmentions in Eleventy

GraphQL:

• 2019 Consuming a headless CMS GraphQL API with Eleventy

More tutorials ↗

• Benchmark web sites Built with Eleventy over time @11ty.dev
• A showcase of websites built with the Eleventy static site generator @11tybundle
• Explore real-world websites using Sveltia CMS across various industries, built with Eleventy @sveltiacms.app

Contributions welcome and encouraged! Read the contribution guidelines first.

• Originally created by Chris Collins
• Currently maintained by Anydigital