Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Best practices in Craft 2

Craft 2 is showing its maturity in a good way. It's a well-oiled machine with community-tested best practices. This issue has a number of links highlighting these best practices.

We'll also hit other topics, like Grunt, Gulp and general workflow stuff, some of which isn't Craft-specific but useful to most of us who have Craft CMS in our toolkit.

If you're wondering about the launch of Craft 3, there's no official word that I know of, but if you believe rumors on the Internet (and why shouldn't you?) we're looking at "end of the year".

Let's hit the links.

News

Redactor II, version 1.2.4 update

At the end of May the release of Craft 2.6.2789 updated Redactor II to version 1.2.4 which should make fix some irksome freezes in Chrome and Safari.

Featured Sponsor

Pic Puller for Craft

Add Instagram feeds to your site. Includes the Instagram Image Browser field type. NEW: Pic Puller version 2.2.0+ is compatible with Craft's built-in protection against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Troubleshooting Email Errors in Craft

Craft 2.6.2788 has made tracking down email config errors easier. This new page in the Craft docs has the details.

Crafty Vagrant

A boilerplate dev environment for jump-starting Craft CMS projects

A brain dump of learning resources for Craft

This StackExchange post has a link list for Craft. That makes this is a link list within a link list. My head is spinning.

Craft Users Cheat Sheet

Cheating is ok in this circumstance.

Grunt Init Craft

Automate Craft things with Grunt.

Downloads and installs Craft as a dependency
Compiles SASS and Blesses it
Concatenates and minifies all vendor JS
Minifies main.js
Compiles a gitbook in docs/
Watches for changes and recompiles
Makes automatic backups of the SQL database to data/cms.sql -Automatically imports data/cms.sql when the Vagrant server starts

Flexbox and Craft

Have you had it with floats? This Straight Up Hangout talks flexbox and how to take advantages of it with Craft's flexible templating approach.

A Very Flexible Title Field

Sometimes an entry having a "title" isn't semantically correct for all instances. 3 Red Kites has a short piece about dealing with that in Craft.

Perfecting your technique

Best practices for handling data migration and organization across development environments

On Slack last month, there was a discussion around best practices around "setting it all up". Ultimately this lead to 3 must-read Stack Exchange conversations. Here's the first one.

Best practices for upgrading a versioned Craft site

The next link in the "setting it all up" discussion was around best practices around upgrading Craft.

Best practices around Git workflow and multi-environment

The final link in the "setting it all up" exchange was this one regarding Git and multi-environments.

Build Automation Using Gulp with Dan Tello

The CTRL+CLICK CAST podcast on Gulp.

Matrix as a Layout Builder

This Straight Up Hangout shows how versatile Matrix can be. Whether you use this technique or not it's a nice demonstration of what you can achieve with the Matrix field type.

Building Email Forms Natively in Craft

Stephen Bowling documents the form building process he showed off in the "Matrix as a Layout Builder" StraightUp Hangouts.

Navigating Navigation in Craft CMS

This Straight Up Hangout takes on navigation.

AMP Project

The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project is a new open source initiative on how to build web pages that render with reliable, fast performance.

You can check the AMP Project Github page for the HTML source code, samples, and documentation. Also check out AMP By Example for, well, examples.

Plugged In

Cold Cache

Adds a new {% coldcache %} tag to Craft, which works just like Craft’s built-in {% cache %} tag, except that this tag won’t record which elements and element queries are active between its tags. The only way caches will ever get deleted is if they expire, or an admin clears them using the Clear Caches tool in Settings.