Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft 3.5 beta, Craft Nitro, free COVID licenses, tips, plugins, and more.

Hello Craft friends. I hope this issue finds you doing well.

We kick off with the beta release of Craft 3.5. If you’re excited about the GraphQL mutations 3.5 brings, that means you are a nerd, and you are reading the right newsletter. 😄

Craft Nitro, the local dev environment solution from the Craft team is now in pre-release. Following up on the batch of free licenses for COVID response projects, there are a few more to add to the list. We’ve also got plenty of tips and more.

Thank you to the sponsors of this issue.

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Let’s hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3.4.16 released

Craft 3.4.16 now sets the access-control-allow-origin header to * rather than the incoming request’s origin, for graphql/api and live-preview/preview requests. Your CORS prayers, or maybe they are nightmares, are answered.

Free licenses for COVID19 response: part 2

In the previous issue, you will find a list of offers for free licenses from developers for use in building COVID response projects. There are more to add to the list:

Developers, if I’ve missed your plugin, please Tweet about it and submit your link to the CLL link submission page.

🏭 pluginfactory.io goes to 2,896

Andrew shared some stats showing how many Craft plugins and modules have been built so far this year using pluginfactory.io. In a second tweet, he revealed that "Test" is the most popular name chosen. I've made at least one of those.

If you’re using Plugin Factory, you can support Andrew’s work on it at GitHub.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

An Official “Welcome to Craft CMS” Tutorial

The Craft team has been hard at work on the documentation of Craft. (Thanks, Matt Stein!) For example, the recently added tutorial at the link above will help new users get familiar with Craft CMS in no time.

GraphQL API Documentation

Lest you think the documentation improvements are just for those new to Craft, check out the GraphQL docs. They have gotten more robust, just in time for 3.5. For example, they have reference tables for the following:

Video: Building Navigation

In this short video, James Grieg demonstrates how he allows clients to create navigation in Craft using a Matrix field with two block types.

Ability to Specify CMS Logo in config? No, but...

If you use a server that doesn't have a permanent way to keep uploaded files, the normal way of adding a logo to your Craft control panel won't work as you expect.

For example, if you use Heroku, it comes with an ephemeral file system, which would wipe out your logo periodically. The Github issue link above offers a solution to this problem. Add your rebranding logos to your Git repo. You can do that by adding the following to your .gitignore file.

# CRAFT STORAGE
/storage/*
!/storage/.gitkeep
!/storage/rebrand/

Learn in Public: Alpine.js | CraftQuest

Ryan and Andrew try learning Alpine.js in public.

Perfecting your technique

Emails and Organisation (Servd, March 2020)

Matt Gray continues to share his experiences in launching Servd, a managed Craft CMS hosting service.

Craft 2 to 3 Migration PDF

On April 7, Justin Holt gave a presentation at the Charlotte Craft CMS Meetup Group on migrating from Craft 2 to Craft 3. At the link above, you can check out the slide deck and then follow along with the video of his presentation.

A Guide to Soft Delete with Craft CMS ⭐️

Jake Dohm does a dive into Craft’s soft delete functionality.

What types of content have a soft-delete
How to soft-delete content
How to find and recover soft-deleted content
How to permanently remove soft-deleted content
Configuring soft-delete
What this means for plugin authors

repman.io | Private PHP Package Repository Manager

Andrew mentioned repmaon.io in a Tweet recently. It promises to speed up your composer downloads by up to 90% by installing a global composer project or just tweaking your package.json file per project.

Building a Donation Form with Craft Commerce

CraftQuest continues to add great content. Consider subscribing if you haven’t already.

In the Up and Running with Craft Commerce, we covered how to build a product website with Craft Commerce. Our goal was straightforward and focused. That means that we didn’t cover everything about Commerce. In this lesson or course, we’re going to use the Donation feature in Commerce to set up a simple donation page using Craft Commerce.

Responsive Tables with Craft CMS, Table Maker, and Tailwind

Sean Smith shows how to use the Table Maker plugin to let your users have a flexible author experience. He also discusses how to customize the output to be responsively designed on the front-end of your site.

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Plugged In

Matrix Field Preview

Craft Matrix Field Preview lets you add screenshots to a Matrix field to give your content authors a quick reference to what the block will look like.

Remote Backup

Craft Remote Backup makes it easy to create offsite remote backups from the comfort of the Craft Control Panel.

Remote Sync

Craft Remote Sync makes it easy to sync your database and volume assets from the comfort of the Craft Control Panel. This makes it much easier to move your site from local development to staging and onto production and avoids the need to regularly SSH into servers to perform database dumps and restores.

Inventory

"Am I using this field? Where am I using this field?" You no longer have to wonder... Inventory will show you exactly where your fields are being used!

Asset Usage

The Asset Usage plugin adds a column to see which assets are used or unused.

Super Dynamic Fields

This plugin enhances the default radio, checkbox, dropdown, and Multi-Select Field.

Super Dropdown

This plugin transforms structured data into series of linked dropdowns.

Plural

A simple plugin to pluralize template output.

SIB Contact Form Integration

This plugin is a fork of the craftcms/contact-form and uses its base contact form logic to send emails via the site's SMPT email settings.

Talus Pay for Craft Commerce

Accept payments on your website with Talus Pay.

ShopifySync

Import Products from Shopify.

The Craft Advantage

Craft support

Overheard

It’s complicated.

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

devMode.fm // Do's and Don'ts for Docker-izing applications

In this episode, we talk to Andreas Wittig from cloudonaut.io about best practices when using Docker for our web applications.

This tutorial is written to help people understand some of the basics of shell script programming (aka shell scripting), and hopefully, to introduce some of the possibilities of simple but powerful programming available under the Bourne shell.