Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

The Craftsphere’s buzzing with 2021’s biggest releases to date, and a slew of additions to the plugin store. Put on your reading goggles and get ready to open some tabs.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Securing Your Craft Site in 2021—Part 2 ⭐

Ben Croker continues with part two of his Craft security exploration, including ~~suspicious~~ conveniently-timed notes on addressing the recent sudo server vulnerability.

Updated: Flat Multi-Environment Config for Craft CMS 3

Andrew made a timely update to his article on a flat, multi-site config that’s ideal for Craft 3.6. If the deprecation of siteUrl elevated your pulse, be sure to give this a read.

Must-Have Plugins for Every Craft CMS Site | CraftQuest

Everybody loves a “must-haves” article, and this one’s hot off the press.

Fuzzy Element Queries with `like` and `sounds like`

Andrew demonstrates using like and sounds like querying elements. (Not a prank.)

Twiggy Xdebugging with PhpStorm

If you use PhpStorm and debug Twig templates, this brief Andrew video may inspire you to refine your configuration.

Craft’s new `{% tag %}` tag

The new tag tag in Craft 3.6 makes tricky sentences and cleaner templates.

How I Install and Uninstall Craft CMS 3.5.x Plugins

Andrea shares precisely how she installs and uninstalls Craft plugins across environments.

Perfecting your technique

`cache->getOrSet()`

Aaron Bushnell illustrates the wondrous terseness of Craft::$app->cache->getOrSet().

Twig Components

Giorgio Pogliani offers a peek of the Twig components he’s working on. 😎

Plugged In

Sentry Logger

Pushes Craft CMS logs to Sentry through a native Yii 2 log target.

Cache Warmer

Build up your caches for your Craft site with a cache warmer.

Website Toolbox Forum

Embed a Website Toolbox forum into your Craft CMS site.

HOMMSocialFeed

This plugin is a simple adapter for juicer.io. Collect, modify and show all posts in one place from all of your social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and a lot more.

Skrill for Craft Commerce

Skrill payment gateway for Craft Commerce.

Implementation of the Facebook Conversion API in Craft CMS and Craft Commerce. The Conversions API allows advertisers to send web events from their servers directly to Facebook. Server events are linked to a pixel and are processed like browser pixel events. This means that server events are used in measurement, reporting, and optimization in the same way as browser pixel events.

Coinbase for Craft Commerce

Coinbase payment gateway for Craft Commerce.

Prefetch

This plugin allows you to prefetch, preload, preconnect, dns prefetch, subresource, prerender any url in your Twig templates. Also allows you to load an external font asynchronously.