Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft is the Apple of my eye.

There has been quite a lot of Craft news since the last issue. Craft CMS made it's way into Apple's WWDC. Craft Commerce got a free plugin for selling digital products.

Plus, there's still time to get tickets to the online Craft conference, Craftini on Aug 5, 2016. The sessions look good for all skill levels.

This issue brings a new sponsor to the newsletter. Backup Pro makes automated (and manual, if you prefer) backups really easy. I use the plugin myself. Check it out and a big thank you to Backup Pro for sponsoring this issue.

Let's hit the links.

News

Work With Craft: A job board for Craft CMS professionals

This job board is just getting off the ground but sign up now to help get your next Craft project booked.

Craft Ansible

Although mentioned in issue #7, this guide has had an extensive update since then. What is it? It discusses how to "take a bare VPS (e.g. on Digital Ocean or Vultr) through to a speedy production ready Craft server in less than an hour."

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Why we use Craft CMS: easy multi-language support

The Apartment walks through "a client project that needed the ability to support multiple different languages, dynamically."

Tips for Craft multilingual websites

Jérôme Coupé discusses multilingual Craft development.

Up and Running with Craft by Mijingo

This recently updated course covers the "basics you need to know to get started using Craft".

What’s the recommended way to set the site URL?

Perfecting your technique

What are the cache options available to a Craft installation?

Cache + pending post dates

Cache a list of entries with pending postDates and have it automatically invalidate the cache appropriately.

Code Review: Extending Twig with a new Tag and the MN Twig Perversion Plugin

Learn about extending Twig in this Code Review.

Pass content of system messages to HTML Email Template

Learn about setting up email templates in this Stack Exchange mentioned a couple weeks ago on Slack. Also, in that conversation this helpful Stack Exchange post about emailKey was mentioned.

Sponsor

Pic Puller includes multi-user support

Pic Puller lets each Craft user have individual Instagram account access or, if you choose, users can share a single Instagram account across all users. The choice is up to you.

Plugged In

Instantanalytics

Instant Analytics lets you track otherwise untrackable assets & events with Google Analytics, and eliminates the need for Javascript tracking. Super useful!

Upvote

This powerful little plugin gives you the ability to upvote or downvote (a la Stack Overflow), or to even just "Like" something (a la Facebook).

Craft Froala Editor

If you're looking for a Redactor alternative you might want to check this out even though it's still a WIP. It's an implementation of the Froala Editor (license not included) for Craft CMS.

Zenbu for Craft

Zenbu for Craft is a powerful and customizable entry manager that allows users to view entry custom fields, entry ID, title, URL Title, categories, author, status, date, and more, all in one list. Search criteria can also be saved for easy retrieval later.

Craft Cryptographer

A Craft CMS plugin from Miranj that adds Twig filters to perform cryptographic operations.

Craft Query Log

This plug-in from Robert Sanchez shows a log of database queries in your front-end templates which can be helpful during development.

Anti-All Entries

This plugin removes the All Entries item from Craft's Entries view and "Craft’s wonderful redirecting auto-magically takes you to the next available Section."

Control Panel Body Classes

This plugin will automatically add classes to the <body> tag in the control panel. Use these classes, along with CSS or JavaScript, to target specific DOM elements and manipulate the page.