Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Ciao Craft friends,

This edition is twice the fun! We’re shifting from an every-other-week publishing schedule to monthly; fewer messages, more links.

There’s a lot to catch up on, so let’s hit those links!

News

Craft CMS 3.7.11 Released

We’ve tagged four Craft releases since the last issue. Highlights:

GraphQL entry ID refinements.
Editing workflow permissions improvements.
Entry query performance improvements for content-heavy sites.
New utils/prune-provisional-drafts command, and a --dry-run option for utils/prune-revisions.
Improved autocomplete support in Twig templates with PhpStorm and the Symfony Support plugin.
Various bug fixes.

Commerce 3.4.2 allows |date filters in Discount conditions, includes order addresses as search keywords, and honors an order’s registerUserOnOrderComplete parameter when it’s completed from the control panel. (A few bug fixes, too!)

Webhooks 2.4 Released

The Webhooks plugin got some new features that take advantage of Craft 3.7.

Element API 2.8 Released

Element API has been updated with new endpoint config settings, JSON Feed 1.1 support, and more.

New Craft Roadmap

We launched a roadmap page for Craft CMS, Craft Commerce, and Craft Nitro that’s powered by our internal Linear projects and issues.

Coming in Craft 4: Inactive User Accounts

Speaking of things on the roadmap, Brandon mentioned a completed feature for Craft 4 that’ll expand possibilities for User accounts.

Meet Notifier, a Craft CMS notification hub

Overview of Double Secret Agency’s new plugin, Notifier.

Need Help with a Drupal to Craft Migration?

vnali is looking for Drupal → Craft migration projects to test a plugin-in-progress. Consider getting in touch!

CraftQuest Free 3-day Trial

Every new personal account gets a 🆓 3-day trial to explore the ~750 video catalog.

Has anybody figured out whether you can watch every video in only three days? 🤔

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

nystudio107/craft-autocomplete ⭐

Ben Croker and Andrew Welch teamed up on a fantastic package that easily enables Craft+plugin+module autocomplete for Twig in PhpStorm.

Sprig 1.8.1 + New Recipes

Ben Croker released Sprig 1.8.0 along with a much-requested “load more” recipe for the Sprig Cookbook.

And then more recently, Sprig 1.8.1.

Ben also served up a fresh table field example in the Sprig Cookbook.

Creating a Changelog in Guide 3

Will walks through recreating Communicator’s Changelog widget in Guide and shares his thoughtfully-focused plugin efforts. (via Twitter)

New on CraftQuest: Craft Entry Form with GraphQL + Vanilla JS

Ryan published a new lesson creating a front end entry form with GraphQL and vanilla JavaScript.

Formie Headless Demo

If you’d like to see a great headless Formie example, you’re in luck! Verbb published a demo project, introduced it in a nice blog post, and hosted it so you can have a look.

Understanding How Search Scores Work in Craft CMS

Gregor Terrill breaks down Craft’s calculation of search result scores.

devMode.fm Standups

Ryan and Andrew double-header:

“Speed Walking for Devs”
They weave together elite athletics, career trajectories, devops, and web development.

“Professional… Healing”
Self-work vs. corporate jobs, complete with personal experience and philosophical musing.

Add a Modal from a Redactor Field in Craft CMS

Sean demonstrates how he used Redactor and Matrix to support dynamic modals with custom anchors on the front end.

CraftQuest on Call: A Profile in Codeage

CraftQuest on Call 27 examines Xdebug, IDE autocompletion, and takes questions. There’s also a brief, separate livestream on Profiling in Xdebug.

magicspon/nextjs-craftcms-mono

Starter kit for Headless CraftCMS with Next JS.

nystudio107/europa-museum

Andrew Dockerized the Europa Museum demo project both with Vite and webpack 5.

CraftCMS, Gastby & Netlify with Live Preview! (Part 3)

In this part we will install and configure Gatsby to query Craft content.

「Craft CMS」の記事一覧 🇯🇵

Masashi Yanagiya published a bunch more Craft notes and reflections in Japanese:

ImageMagick Tip 🪄

Andrew tip: ImageMagick has a security policy that can cause large transform operations to fail if there aren’t enough resources.

Perfecting your technique

Carrie Hane on Content Modeling

Great Twitter thread on the importance of configuring a CMS for purposeful content modeling. (Check out the book, Designing Connected Content!)

Plugged In

Twig Matrix Match

Adds a Twig filter to match matrix fields handles with templates names

Dynamic Email Template Pro

You can build and manage your email templates used in your Craft website or Craft Commerce. Emails can be sent dynamically from your application, by using tokens.

Smart Google Analytics

This plugin provides access to a massive amount of data related to how users find and interact with your site. For example, you can see how many people visited a specific page, how much time they spent there, where your users live, how the specific keywords are performing, and so forth.