Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Preparing for April Edition

Hi Craft friends,

Before we march into April, we’d like to share some fresh links from the past two weeks. We’ve broken ground on a new blog, published a new first-party plugin, and highlighted more great interweb Craft nuggets.

Thanks again to Solspace for sponsoring the issue, and inviting you to test the Freeform 3.11 beta.

Let us now hit those links.

News

Craft 3.6.11 Released

Craft 3.6.11 added a {% script %} tag and the andRelatedTo parameter for relations. If you’ve got a template with complex <script> tags, faceted search, and maybe a dollop of Sprig, it could be time for a tidy.

Ploi Adds Craft Installer

Server management tool Ploi added a one-click Craft CMS installer.

SnapShooter Adds Craft Backup Support

Server backup solution SnapShooter added support for backing up Craft CMS installs.

Date Field Time Zone Settings Coming in Craft 3.7

Brandon offered a peek at a feature coming to Craft 3.7: a “Show Time Zone” setting for Date fields. The Twitter thread casually includes this part:

[...] Craft has never allowed custom fields to store data across multiple columns. So that needed to happen first.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

{% for ... else %} ⭐

Max Strebel learned Twig for loops can have an else. As if that wasn’t shocking enough, apparently other templating engines do this too.

Local Development Tooling | Servd

Nice overview of Servd’s asset and database syncing for a buttery-smooth transition between production and local development.

Build a Full Website in Craft CMS (Parts 3-5)

Luke Peters published parts three, four, and five of his Craft CMS full-build tutorial series.

Modernization of a Craft 3 Website

In a tight four hours and fifteen minutes of video, Andrew restores and refreshes an old website with all the fixins.

CraftQuest on Call #19

Ryan and Andrew discuss Tailwind JIT, how to move from legacy CSS to Tailwind, a reliable way to do localhosting on Windows, and how to protect assets so they’re only available to logged-in users.

Journey Extracting Complex Twig Logic

Leevi Graham’s been Twig-spelunking to explore ways of extracting complex Twig logic. Thoughts shared, hats tipped.

Optimizing Transformed Image Filenames for SEO

SpaceCatNinja is back again, pawing at image filenames to benefit SEO.

Plugged In

Azure Blob Storage

Use Azure Blob Storage for Craft CMS asset volumes.

Time Traveler

Allow users to change the time zone.

Little Layout

… a compact field that makes it easy for content authors to adjust the layout of their content or UI and other design elements.

Static Files Autoversioning

Add a refresh version parameter for static files from build.txt file or from timestamp of static file.

Prismatic Links

… a URL field to create link previews for attractive app-like links in your templates.

Yii, Twig, PHP & More

PHP’s Git server hacked to add backdoors to PHP source code

tl;dr no threat unless you were running the development branch of PHP 8.1—but consider not running your own Git server.

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

devMode.fm Standup: “Use Your Skills to Make Your Thrills”

Patrick & Andrew record another devMode standup streamed live on YouTube, focusing the conversation around the idea of using your skills and interests to make your own product.

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