Eleventy: Recreate a few popular jekyll plugins

[zachleat]

cc @chrisdmacrae, who provided the following lists:

https://github.com/topics/jekyll-plugin?o=desc&s=stars
https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll-plugins/blob/master/README.md

[zachleat]

This needs to be made into more granular issues.

[chrisdmacrae]

@zachleat I'm going to be building an SEO plugin, an a11y linter plugin, a menus plugin, and an i18n plugin for my starter.

So you can strike those from your list. 👍

[DirtyF]

Created separated issues for plugins mentioned by @chrisdmacrae

• [ ] SEO: #417
• [ ] a11y: #418
• [ ] menus: #419
• [ ] i18n: #420

[chrisdmacrae]

@dirtyf any other jekyll plugins you think would be good candidates for 11ty?

[DirtyF]

Other Jekyll core plugins include sitemap, redirects, import, compose (less powerful than Hugo archetypes) and archives.

I find myself using the PWA plugin based on Workbox and the Cloudinary plugin to help deal with responsive images.

Images and PWA are amongst most popular Gatsby plugins, because they help getting the best performance on LightHouse I guess.

I also use a plugin for HTML minification and purgecss.

[chrisdmacrae]

@dirtyf

Sounds good. My SEO plugin will handle meta, sitemap(s), robots.txt and humans.txt, and linting markup.

I'm going to build a parcel plugin to recreate gatbsy's sharp image plugin in place of something like cloudinary, and can likely get the lazy loading in as well.

Redirects is a good idea too, but I don't think that's really possible with 11ty right now.

Parcel already minifies HTML, but a plugin could be created to let vanilla 11ty do this as well.

Import and compose aren't really possible right now, as you can't extend 11ty's CLI with plugins.

[Ryuno-Ki]

Another suggestion: Web Analytics.
With the option to pick Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Matomo (formerly known as Piwik) and others.

Oh, and social sharing (Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, diaspora*, Instagram, …) could be interesting as well.

What about linking to profiles? GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, StackOverflow …

[bjankord]

I'm going to build a parcel plugin to recreate gatbsy's sharp image plugin in place of something like cloudinary, and can likely get the lazy loading in as well. @chrisdmacrae

That would be amazing! Coming from gatsby, that was one feature I was really missing and had decided to replace that functionality I had with gatsby with https://github.com/eeeps/eleventy-respimg

Not sure if this falls under popular jekyll plugins but a feature to calculate read-time via https://github.com/ngryman/reading-time would nice 👍

[Ryuno-Ki]

@bjankord Look at eleventy-plugin-reading-time :-)

Would you mind renaming your plugin to start with „eleventy-plugin-” so that once #405 gets resolved it can be discovered more easily?

[bjankord]

Oh, the eleventy-respimg plugin is not my plugin, it's @eeeps's plugin. I just found it interesting.

[jeremenichelli]

Hi folks, I was thinking on adding filters that Jekyll built on top of Liquid (date_to_rfc822, date_to_xmlschema, xml_escape, markdownify) and opened an issue (https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues/549) for it. Before starting work on that I wanna ask collaborators, maintainers and author if they agree with adding them :)

[zachleat]

Howdy y’all, I collected the new plugin requests on this label: https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/issues?q=label%3A%22enhancement%3A+new+plugin%22+is%3Aclosed

Please file new issues for specific plugins if they come up!