Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft 3.4 is official, securing Craft CMS, category query gymnastics, plugins, and more.

Welcome to another issue of Craft Link List. Since the previous issue, both Craft 3.4 and Commerce 3 are now the official releases. There are links on securing Craft, querying entires by categories, and more. I also enjoyed the typography link that kicks off the “It’s not Craft” section.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Setting Up AWS S3 Buckets + CloudFront CDN for Assets

Using a cloud storage system like AWS S3 with a CDN distribution can be a convenient and inexpensive way to store your assets. Andrew shows how to set it up.

Setting up Craft CMS locally with MAMP and Composer

Ross Dallaire outlines the local dev process with MAMP.

craftcms.pl - A Polish Craft CMS resource

Piotr Pogorzelski, whom you might know from Craft Snippets, has launched a Polish site for Craft CMS. Now Polish speakers have a native-language destination for getting to know Craft. Congrats on the launch!

How do you teach Craft to new employees?

Piotr posted this question on Twitter. There are some replies, but the world awaits your answer as well. Tweet away.

CSS Grid Generator by Layoutit

Another grid generator has entered the ring. This webapp isn’t to be confused with Sarah Edo’s grid generator mentioned in issue 89.

Perfecting your technique

Securing Craft: How to survive a penetration test

Steve Rowling gave a presentation on Securing Craft at the London Craft CMS Meetup on January 28, 2020. This link is to the slides from the presentation.

How To Query Craft Entries Based On Multiple Category Relations

Mitchell Kimbrough (yeah, that guy you know from Solspace) goes into detail on conjoined category searching. 🤸

Enhancing Performance in Craft with Redis

Ryan and Andrew continue the theme of performance improvements. This time they look at moving sessions to Redis and how you can do that on Craft CMS. (For CraftQuest subscribers only.)

Install Imagick 3.4.3 on PHP 7.3 server (Laravel Forge)

Laravel Forge users don’t get Imagick installed by default, but this recipe will help fix that. If you’re on Server Pilot, this link mentioned back in Issue 35 might be of interest because it includes this link on installing Imagick on SP.

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Plugged In

QBank Connector

QBank is a smart Digital Asset Management, aka DAM, that stores, manages and publishes your digital assets. This connector plugin will allow you to download assets and report usage of said assets in Craft for more effective workflow.

Venveo Bulk Edit

The Bulk Edit plugin adds an action to supported element index pages that allows you to edit fields on a large number of elements at once.

Regex Replace Twig Filter

This plugin adds PHP's preg_replace function as a Twig filter.

Sidebar Shortcuts

This plugin adds the ability to add simple shortcut-links to the sidebar in the control panel of Craft CMS.

Froala WYSIWYG Editor v3

The implementation of the Froala Editor (license not included) for Craft CMS 3.x.

Craft Reporter

Monitor and get status reports of your Craft CMS sites. The plugin works in conjunction with the craft.report service, which is now in Beta.

Brandfetch

This unofficial Brandfetch Plugin utilizes the API of brandfetch.io to call and save logos from just about any URL.

Craft CMS 3.x Redirect Manager

Craft plugin that provides an easy way to enter and maintain 301 and 302 redirects. The plugin provides a clear user interface for admin and non-admin users.

Poll

With this plugin, you can easily create polls in Craft without the need of an external service.

Craft Color Mixer

Use Twig to modify and manipulate color values and generate valid CSS that can be used in your templates.

Craft Asset Versioner

Automatically generate unique hashed versions of static files and assets for efficient and reliable browser caching.

autop Twig Filter

The autop plugin adds a Twig filter that strips HTML and generates <p> and <br> tags from newlines.

Useful when you want to implement simple formatting using the Plain Text field.

The Craft Advantage

A Craft plugin idea

Yii, Twig, PHP & More

Controlling whitespace output

Andrew shared a Twig tip on {% spaceless %}, {%- -%} and {{- -}}.

PHP in 2020

In this post, I want to look at this bright side of PHP development. I want to show you that, despite its many shortcomings, PHP is a worthwhile language to learn. I want you to know that the PHP 5 era is coming to an end. That, if you want to, you can write modern and clean PHP code, and leave behind much of the mess it was 10 years ago.