Introduction
Happy Wednesday, Craft friends!
It’s a big day in the Craftverse, with long-awaited major versions of Craft CMS and Craft Commerce, in-person Dot All on the horizon, and a significant first step toward our annual release cycle.
We’re glad to have you with us, and may the fourth be with you.
Craft Link List
Top Stories
Craft CMS 4 and Craft Commerce 4 Released! 🎉
Craft and Commerce 4 stable releases were tagged minutes ago!
Check out each blog post for major features, spin up a demo to see them for yourself, and dive right into the Craft upgrade guide or Commerce upgrade guide when you’re ready.
craftcms.com
Dot All 2022 Announced
It’s official! Dot All is coming to your galaxy—more specifically Brooklyn, New York—September 27–29.
We have an open call for speakers, so please submit your proposal by May 13th if you’ve got something in mind!
twitter.com
News
Pixel & Tonic is Looking for a Senior Software Engineer
If you’d like more Craft CMS in your life, come build it with us!
twitter.com
CraftQuest Adopt-a-Plugin: Guide
Ryan and Andrew meet again to help special guest Will Browar update the Guide plugin for Craft 4.
craftquest.io
Plugin Roadmap 2022
Ben Croker didn’t hide any plans, but published what’s in store for his plugins and support policy with Craft 4’s new release schedule.
putyourlightson.com
devMode.fm Standup: “Signal to Squirrel Ratio”
Andrew and Ben Croker discuss the Craft 3 → 4 trench run and future roadmap.
devmode.fm
Tools, tips, and fundamentals
Multi-Faceted Filtering Natively in Craft CMS
James Smith of CLD with a hands-on look at building faceted search for Craft Commerce products.
cld.agency
CraftQuest Craft CMS Quick-Start Guide
If you’re a learn-by-doing type, this quick introduction to Craft CMS 4 puts you straight into the cart race.
craftquest.io
Speeding up Craft CMS on Heroku
Tommy “I have a bad feeling about this” Parnell on successfully improving Heroku Craft performance.
terrible.dev
Building a Bowling Fixtures List with Vue
Charlie Dowley walks us through an important part of a real-world WordPress → Craft project, combining Feed Me, the Element API, Vue.js, and unnamed secrets to manage Bowls Club Fixtures.*
*: The kind of fixtures a “bowls club” has, probably not the ones you’re thinking of unless you already know what a “bowls club” is.
charlottedowley.co.uk
CraftQuest on Call: When Should I Use Multi-site in Craft CMS?
craftquest.ioRyan and Andrew talk about when to use multi-site in Craft CMS.
Plugged In
Search Powered by Elasticsearch
craftcms.comReplace Craft’s database full-text search with Elasticsearch.
The Craft Advantage
How to Sell Craft CMS to Your Team
Abstrakt’s Lauren Irwin extolls the virtues of Craft CMS and Commerce when it comes to bespoke web projects.
weareabstrakt.com
Yii, Twig, PHP & More
Built on Craft
Congo Basin Institute 🇨🇲
Art direction and editorial design by Andy Clarke, development by Scott Gruber. Jubilat typeface by Darden Studio, featured on Fonts in Use.
ucla.edu
Kannapedia & Psilocydia
By Evan Warner: Craft CMS multi-site (see Psilocydia), with MongoDB, OAuth2, massive AWS files, and D3 under the hood.
kannapedia.net
It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.
Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign
A candid, insightful post from Wildbit about their decision to sell.
wildbit.com
Website 101 Podcast: Vanilla Javascript
website101podcast.comLearn why Chris Ferdinandi believers there’s a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web with vanilla JavaScript. We also take a detour into accessibility.
devMode.fm: Leverage the Web Platform with Remix
Discussion about Remix, a web framework built in TypeScript that allows you to use as much (or even zero!) JavaScript on the frontend as you like, balanced with SSR JavaScript on the back end.
Fun listen even if another JavaScript framework makes you feel like a Gungan on Hoth.
devmode.fm