Introduction
It's beginning to look a lot like Craft time.
Do you have time between holiday parties for a few Craft CMS links? Well, you're in luck. Here's another issue of Craft CMS news, tips and posts about your favorite CMS.
If you've got Craft-related links please drop me a line in Slack on at [email protected]
Let's hit the links.
-John Morton
Craft Link List
Top Stories
Changelog for Craft 2.6.2951
There were a few "breaking" changes in Craft 2.6.2951, for example: "The template functions craft.getBuild() and craft.getReleaseDate() are now deprecated, and return null."
Soon after that release, Craft 2.6.2952 simple deprecated some of those functions, but still be sure your plugins are updated to account for these changes.
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
Responsive Image srcset Macro for Craft
A good post that really shows you the power of macros.
viget.com
Build a Blog With Craft CMS
In this 3rd post in a series this tutorial teaches you how to set up to speed with Craft. Learn by doing. (It's $9 for access to the course.)
tutsplus.com
Perfecting your technique
Twig Processing Order & Scope
You'll probably want to bookmark this post by Andrew Welch because you will need it at some point.
nystudio107.com
Craft Ecommerce with Luke Holder
I missed this link from Oct 2015, but it was mentioned recently in Slack. Check out the CTRL+CLICK CAST podcast interview with Luke Holder, aka the guy behind Craft Commerce.
ctrlclickcast.com
Ecommerce Shipping & Fulfillment with Noah Bernsohn & Peter Compernolle
A new CTRL+CLICK CAST podcast, also about e-commerce. Now I think I'm caught up with CTRL+CLICK CAST for the time being.
ctrlclickcast.com
Control Flow in Twig
Mijingo has a course on control flow. What is that? "Control Flow is how we tell our program (or in our case templates) when and under which circumstances to process our statements."
mijingo.com
Stop using .htaccess files! No, really.
Andrew Welch touches the third rail on the Apache train. Here's some music to play while you read.
nystudio107.com
Craftcms Docker
Here's another Docker for Craft CMS. If this is interesting to you, check out other docker links mentioned in the newsletter too.
github.com
Plugged In
Export Widget
This plugin relies on and extends the Export plugin for CraftCMS, so install that first, then you can add a quick 'export' widget to the dashboard.
github.com
Walk
A Craft-aware variant of the array_walk() method, plus some console commands for extra convenience, to easily apply Craft service/helper/Task methods to a collection of elements.
Camel Space Craft CMS Plugin
Easily convert camel cased strings to strings with spaces. (Maybe it should be titled camelSpaceCraftCmsPlugin.)
github.com
NP Edit Multiple Elements
This plugin lets you edit multiple elements (entries or categories) sequentially.
github.com
Overheard
It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.
Help Media Queries
Tool help you to easily recognize your active media query and display additional screen info.
github.com