Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Cheers, august Crafters.

The Craft CMS world doesn't take a break, even in August. We've got more links and news than I expected to kick off the month. Here's an overview.

The job board site for Craft CMS, Work With Craft has officially launched.

Pixel and Tonic sent it's EE add-ons to live on a farm where they can frolic in the sun. Ok, that farm is EE Harbor, so they're in good hands.

Unfortunately, Craftini, the online conference that was scheduled for this month, has been canceled. Although it didn't generate enough early registrations to get it off the ground this year, a big thanks to Bryan Redeagle for effort put behind the effort anyway.

Also, If you're interested in learning some advanced Twig techniques, Flexible Twig Templates in Craft was released last month and Mijingo has a $10 coupon code for Craft Link List readers in the Top Stories section.

But that's not all. Craft Link List continues to grow along with the entire Craft community. Thanks for subscribing. I appreciate it.

Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

EEHarbor Acquires Pixel & Tonic EE Add-ons

Wygwam, Assets, Playa, Matrix, and Field Pack were key add-ons to many of us who used ExpressionEngine. Those Pixel & Tonic add-ons now have a new home, leaving P&T to focus on Craft CMS.

HTTPoxy Vulnerability ServerPilot blog post

There's a HTTProxy vulnerability in the wild, playfully called HTTPoxy. This link is to the ServerPilot article about the vulnerability. You might also want to check the page that talks about the exploit itself at https://httpoxy.org.

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Pic Puller: The Instagram plugin for Craft CMS

Pic Puller brings your Instagram media into Craft CMS. Full documentation and code samples get you up and running quickly.

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

SEOmatic plugin video overview

Andrew Welch walks through his excellent SEOmatic plugin in this video. It's a valuable resource that should be in every Craft developer's toolkit.

Using SEOmatic's SEOmetrics feature to measure SEO effectiveness

Want to dive deeper in to SEOmatic? Andrew has more for you to check out.

Better Build Processes with Gulp and Craft CMS

At the end of July Straight Up Hangouts took on one of my favorite geeky topics: Gulp and build tools. And, while we're on the topic check out this collection of useful Gulp plugins mentioned in Slack last month.

Deploy Craft CMS to DigitalOcean

"This guide explains how to launch a website powered by Craft CMS with a proper development environment and workflow behind it. You’ll set up a local development environment, put Craft theme and config files under version control with Git, create and configure a new DigitalOcean droplet, install Craft on it, and then deploy your theme and configs to a live website with DeployBot."

Perfecting your technique

Craft Docker

A Craft base running on sealink/phpdocker.

Do It Yourself widget for Craft CMS

Build your own widgets using this plugin. All you need to do is to create the folder craft/config/diywidget/ and add Twig templates to it.

The {% cache %} tag - Straight Up Hangout

I think I neglected to mention this Straight Up Hangout from February 2015 regarding the cache tag. It came up again last month in the Craft Slack channel though. You may also want to check out this Stack Exchange entry mentioned back in July 2015.

Docker Baseimage

Jason McCallister shared the Docker base image he and his team uses to build sites whether they are Craft CMS sites or not.

Troubleshooting Email Errors

Straight Up Hangouts takes on email errors. We've all had them. (You got this email, right?)

Louder Than Ten Editorial System for Craft CMS

This repo is an example of a flexible publishing process using Craft CMS by Travis Gertz.

Tracking SQL changes between production and development and back

In Issue 17, there was a collection of 3 links under the heading Best practices for handling data migration and organization across development environments. There's a 4th link to add to this list now: Tracking SQL queries from CP changes.

The link was mentioned on Slack which led Brad Bell to summarize what's done on the Craft CMS site itself: "take production database dump down to dev, make changes and replicate those back up to production as necessary."

Manually trigger an asset transform before calling getUrl()

Craft CMS Stack Exchange to the rescue.

Optimizing Content: How to Power SEO with Craft CMS

An overview the best practices in optimizing content in Craft for a successful SEO strategy.

Plugged In

Craft TwigPCRE

Bring the power of PHP PCRE Functions into your Craft Twig templates. What kind of dark magic does that allow?

{{ "This is a simple example."|preg_replace('/simple/', 'beautiful') }}

will output:

This is a beautiful example.

Points

Points is a Craft CMS plugin that allows you create a points / scoring / credits system and assign these to a user.

Points are assigned to a user by firstly creating an 'Event' (E.g. Signed Up to Newsletter = 20pts) and then assigning this event to a particular user when they have performed that action.

Craft ShipStation Plugin

ShipStation integration for CraftCommerce.

Template Select

A fieldtype that allows you to select a template from a dropdown.

Craft Uptime Robot

Integrates with Uptime Robot to monitor the health of your Craft site.

Element Stats widget for Craft CMS

Make a nice looking stats widget customized to the contents of the elements in your Craft site.

Craft Entries Subset

This fieldtype is an extension of the built in Entries fieldtype. It allows you to specify extra criteria (currently only EntryType) in which to restrict the available entries for selection.

The Craft Advantage

Craft CMS: A Review and First Impressions

Sean Smith, a longtime EE developer, shares his impressions on Craft CMS.

Craft CMS on Facebook

What's Facebook?

Craft Developers Directory

This is filed under The Craft Advantage for a good reason. Look how many of us there are. This should give your potential clients an extra level of comfort in knowing that Craft is a solid choice with many support options.

Why We Love Developing Websites with Craft CMS, Part 2: All About Content

Part 1 was mention in the previous issue of Craft Link List.

Yii, Twig, PHP & More

Twig "source" Documentation

Last issue the had a link to the Inlin plugin that would let you inline code in your template. Andrew Welch pointed out that the "source" Twig command can inline code natively as long at the files you're inlining are local. Use it like this:

{% block _inline_css %}<style>{{ source ('_criticalcss/site_index_critical.min.css') }}</style>{% endblock %}

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Envoyer - Zero Downtime PHP Deployment

Often mentioned on Slack. Never mentioned here. Until now.