Eleventy Markdown Prime starter repository by lastguru

Eleventy Markdown Prime is a minimalistic, opinionated starter for text‑first blogs built with Eleventy 3 and Tailwind CSS 4. It is loosely based on Eleventy Chirpy Blog Template, inspired by the popular Chirpy Jekyll Theme, keeping a familiar look while significantly reworking and restructuring the implementation. It strives to be fast, accessible, and easy to customize, while remaining simple and visually similar. Some features are new, some are reimplemented, and additional ones will be reintroduced over time.

Current live demo

Current features

• Eleventy 3 theme with Tailwind CSS 4
• Fast and minimalistic responsive design
• Simple grayscale color palette with a configurable accent color
• Content is exclusively pre-rendered (static site), but supports supplemental JavaScript
• Can be used for a text-based (Markdown) blog or simple page
• Logo, site name and main menu are placed on the left sidebar
• Social network links on the sidebar
• Automatic post list (index), tag and author pages with pagination
• Optional post thumbnails in post lists
• Author business cards on author pages (photo, bio, links)
• Footer component with copyright/privacy information
• Can be easily localized
• Convenient configuration with many options
• Automatic responsive image optimization (generating AVIF and WEBP with different sizes)
• Comprehensive JSON-LD structured data support
• SEO optimization, OpenGraph and Twitter Cards
• Special pages: Error 404, robots.txt, sitemap.xml
• Progressive Web Apps (PWA) support

More features are in the works…