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Craft CMS had five releases since our last issue—now at 3.7.27—with convenient enhancements for color field data and images, accessibility improvements, and a smattering of bug fixes and refinements.
craftcms/commerce
Craft Commerce got four releases since our last issue, currently at 3.4.9.3. These were mostly bug fixes, with the minimum Craft CMS version bumped to 3.7.25.
Conditional Fields Headed to Craft 4
Brandon offered a sneak peek at a much-requested feature that’ll ship with Craft 4.
New: Craft CMS and Craft Commerce Events Pages
Each got a brand new Events pages with exhaustive, searchable events and an event code generator:
Craft CMS Developer Benchmark 2021
Matt Ellis published Honcho’s unofficial Craft developer survey results from 242 developers across 33 countries.
pluginfactory.io Almost Six Years Old!
As discussed on devMode.fm, Andrew may retire it when Craft 4 rolls out.
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Tools, tips, and fundamentals
How To Run Craft CMS On Amazon Lambda
A wonderfully-thorough guide to running Craft on AWS Lambda.
Editor’s note: we missed this in May, and those responsible for including it in the CLL have been frowned at severely by the editorial board.
CraftQuest Recap
- CraftQueston Call 35: 12 Things We Learned in 2021: Ryan clearly had fun editing an intro for this insightful retrospective discussion.
- CraftQuest Development Workflow: Ryan walks through his CraftQuest development workflow like Bob Ross walks you through a painting.
- I’m Tired of Keeping Up With New Stuff!: Ryan and Andrew discuss motivation and burnout.
- How to Troubleshoot a Database Connection Issue: Ryan and Andrew talk troubleshooting database connection issues without once mentioning this article.
- Deprecating Twig Templates and Template Blocks: Ryan deprecates Twig templates and blocks using the deprecated tag and a DIY version.
- Starter Code for Craft CMS: Code examples and boilerplate projects using Docker, DDEV and example Twig templates.
- Control Flow in Twig: Course on the fundamentals of control flow in Twig.
Plugged In
remarry Twig Filter
A Craft CMS Twig Filter that prevents paragraph text widows in plain text and complex HTML user-supplied content.
Tweet Feed
Fetches recent tweets and allows you to style them in your twig templates. Compatible with Guzzle 7 and Twitter API v2.0.
Testimonial Slider
Testimonials slider is a simple plugin for demonstrating feedback of your clients on your own site.
Built on Craft
New Haven Independent
By Smartpill Design: ExpressionEngine 1 → Craft CMS 3 multi-site with 10+ years of entries.
It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.
A Response To "Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?"
Ben Croker recommended reading htmx’s response to a talk Rich Harris gave on whether SPA’s are ruining the web.
CSS-Tricks Reaction to Dock Life: Using Docker for All The Things!
Speaking of responses to things, Chris Coyier published a brief reaction to Andrew’s Dock Life: Using Docker for All The Things!.
simplicate-web/redactor-link-attr
A configurable set of attributes that can be assigned to inline redactor links.