Scott Jenson@Meyerweb @brad_frost following this thread as I'm in the exact same boat. I've been wanting to convert over to #eleventy (to be like the cool kids) but the process is far from trivial (if you're not a front end engineer). At the same time, there are things I'd like to try outside of WP.
ATM, I just upload static files to orphaned URLs which works but isn't integrated with the site (obviously)
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