Eleventy Base Blog v9 + Structured Data

Learn How To Add Structured Data to Your Eleventy Website!

To get an overview start at the about page or dive into understanding "Why schema markup helps pages to rank" and "Why schema markup helps you to get your important entities into Google's Knowledge Graph."

You'll find an overview of the articles at the About Page

Now On YouTube: How I Added Schema Markup to my 11ty Blog

Recording of the 25th 11ty Meetup on 23rd of July 2025, featuring Kaj Kandler as Presenter

Kaj Kandler presented this 11ty starter project at the 11ty Meetup in July 2025. The recording is available on YouTube

Latest 3 Posts

  1. 11ty Meetup #25: Presentation of Kaj Kandler
  2. How to Add Breadcrumbs with Schema to All Pages
  3. How to Automate 'datePublished' and 'dateModified' in Eleventy

5 more posts can be found in the archive.

This is a starter project demonstrating Schema.org markup for Eleventy. It is published from the eleventy-base-blog-with-schema Git repo.

To use this as a starter project for you website with a blog:

  1. Edit _data/metadata.js with your blog’s information.
  2. (Optional) Edit eleventy.config.js with your configuration preferences.
  3. Delete these message from _includes/layouts/home.njk.
  4. Delete the articles in content/blog/*.

This Eleventy project is forked from the eleventy-base-blog repo. It adds schema.org structured data for SEO and Digital Persona Optimization