Issue 25  

Introduction

Oktobercraft

Happy October! We've got the latest links from the Craft CMS world (from Slack, Twitter, and conversations with Craft developers) collected to keep you occupied over your spiced pumpkin latte, pumpkin ale, or pumpkin pie. Yum.

Let's hit the links!

Craft Link List  

Top Stories

Coming to Craft 3: Content Migrations

Craft 3 has a plan for one of the biggest headaches related to managing CMS development: "replicating changes across multiple environments".

craftcms.com  

Featured Sponsor

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.

picpuller.com  

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Fetching multiple entry types or excluding entry types from craft.entries

cliveportman.co.uk  

Craft Commerce Tutorial

Do you need to brush up on Craft Commerce? Mijingo has now got a course for you. Check it out. (That is and intentional pun.)

mijingo.com  

How to make use of Element Types

stackexchange.com  

Can you generate a cryptographically secure string in Craft?

Yep.

craft()->security->generateRandomString()

Craft Link List  

How to Install Craft CMS on Cloudways

cloudways.com  

Running Craft on Laravel Forge

angell.io  

Perfecting your technique

Add repeating DOM elements via AJAX with Craft

craftcookbook.net  

Supercharge Your CMS: Integrations & Add-ons

A list of CTRL+CLICK episodes you might want to check out.

abrightumbrella.com  

{% cache %} | Templating Reference

By default, Craft's cache tag caches using a random key.

You can use {% cache globally using key craft.request.path %} to cache based on the request URI if you'd like.

Why would you do this? Andrew Welch mentioned in Slack that "if you have spambots hitting your page or unique identifiers in the query string from Google Adwords or any number other such things, the default {% cache %} tag can result in a massive number of entries in your template caches, which has a horrible impact on TTFB."

craftcms.com  

LastPass causing incorrect email address to be saved in new user form

LastPass is one of the more popular password managers. Good to be aware of this potential issue.

stackexchange.com  

Plugged In

Visor

A simple admin overlay to get to the relevant areas of the Craft CMS control panel.

github.com  

Commerce Friendly Order Numbers

Use nice, client friendly, consecutive order numbers with Craft Commerce.

github.com  

The Architect - Updated

The Architect, mentioned previously in Issue 18, got a nice looking update in September.

It now supports importing and exporting of users, user groups, and category groups from JSON data (in addition to the other pieces of the puzzle it supported before.)

github.com  

Olive Menus

A powerful menu plugin for Craft CMS built for the need of simplicity and flexibility

github.com  

Craft Snitch

Report when two people might be editing the same entry, category, or global

github.com  

Venti 2 overview video

Venti 2 is a full-featured event calendaring system for Craft. This video overview does a quick top line of Venti 2.

youtube.com