Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft Unredacted.

This issue brings news of an update to the rich text editor in Craft. There are also informative Craft-related posts and a another group of nice plugins. The issue closes with a collection of links all about critical CSS. Lots of good stuff ahead.

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Let's hit the links.

News

Craft CMS proprietary and too new?

Brandon Kelly took to Hacker News to respond to the concern that Craft is "proprietary and new". And check out the follow up of the worst case scenario that Craft just disappears. Short story: it won't because there is a plan.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Make Craft blazing fast on Windows with one simple change

Jeroen Kenters shares a tip.

Craft Starter

Tibor Szász shares "a small set of defaults to kickstart the development of a new Craft CMS project."

Assigning URLs to Tags

From the Craft docs: "There is currently no built-in support for giving each tag its own URL, like there is with entries. That doesn’t mean you can’t do it yourself, though."

A Guide to the Control Panel

A simple walkthrough of the Craft CMS control panel by The Rye Agency.

Testing if something exists

This post isn't as metaphysical as the title suggests. It's just a guide on how to check if a object attribute is set.

Craftbox

A simple Ubuntu Vagrant box targeted for Craft developers.

Perfecting your technique

Craft CMS AJAX page transitions with history.pushState

Zack Spear discusses Craft and the "basics of how I handle AJAX page transitions."

Customizing the Craft Control Panel

Hangout and learn.

Combined searches and filters using Craft

Performance Review: Straight Up Craft Website

Straight Up Craft is ready for its closeup.

A Workaround for Nested Matrix fields in Craft CMS

PhpStorm Workflows, Tips, and Tricks

This Straight Up Hangout is all about PhpStorm.

Plugged In

Workflow

Workflow is a Craft CMS plugin for a common publisher-editor scenario when it comes to content authoring.

Simple Categories

Categories fieldtype as simple checkboxes.

Faceted Nav

Faceted Category Navigation for Craft CMS

Craft Bugsnag

Log Craft errors/exceptions to Bugsnag.

Social Poster

A Craft CMS plugin for automatically posting entries to social media.

Snaptcha - an invisible captcha

Keep the spam out of your forms.

Craft Nocache

A Craft CMS Twig extension that escapes caching inside cache blocks.

{% cache %}
    This will be cached
    {% nocache %}
        This won't be
    {% endnocache %}
{% endcache %}

Inlin-Craft: Plugin for inlining files in templates.

If you want to inline some code, check this out. If you're wondering why you'd want do that, check out the collection of "Critical CSS" links at the end of of this issue.

The Craft Advantage

Why We Love Developing Trifecta Technologies’ Website on Craft CMS: Part 1

Why we don't use Wordpress

Overheard

Out of the box

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Critical CSS

Critical CSS has been a hot topic in the Craft world recently and this issue's "Finally... It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting" section is dedicated to this topic entirely with a set of links that have come up in the past week or two in the Craft Slack channel.