Introduction
Craft 3 rumblings.
News of the upcoming Craft 3 beta has been slipping out in Slack. I'd normally just give you links to go check out, but since I can't link to conversations in Slack, here's a quick summary.
Plugin developers will need to do some work to make plugins compatible with Craft 3, but if you're not a plugin developer, it sounds like you won't have to worry about syntax changes in your templates. There may be some tweaks that need to be made, but we'll find that out for sure when the beta is actually here.
Thinking about getting a jump on converting your plugins for Craft 3? Skip the currently live Dev Preview and wait for the actual Beta to come out because "the Beta will come with a big set of new breaking changes," according to Brandon.
There isn't a definitive date for the Craft 3 beta but it seems like it will be soon.
On the newsletter front, I'm happy to have 2 returning sponsors to Craft Link List this issue, fortrabbit and Work With Craft. Please check them out and say CLL sent you!
Let's hit the links.
-John Morton
Craft Link List
Top Stories
2017 Year in Preview: Technologies and Trends We Are Looking Forward To
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News
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Two of CraftCMS' best features are the Matrix fields and the Live Preview mode. Paired together, they offer a pretty compelling authoring experience.
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Use Instagram Hashtags to Populate Content on Your Craft CMS Site
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Plugged In
Craft Cache Clear
A Craft plugin that allows you to clear your cache outside of the control panel.
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Sprout Fields Plugin
I seem to have missed mentioning this handy set of fields before. In it's latest update, Sprout Fields v2.1.1, it now has a new regular expression field which looks really handy.
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Craft Like
Let your users like your Craft website's entries, assets and any other element.
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Craft Commerce CP Tweaks
Use this Craft Commerce plugin to display the shipping method in the control panel orders table.
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The Craft Advantage
Overheard
Pluginfactory.io's status update for what's working for Craft 3 so far.
Pluginfactory.io, a very handy tool, is being updated for Craft 3 development. This tweet is basically a status update on it's progress to 3.
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It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.
Docker Mailserver
A fullstack but simple mailserver (smtp, imap, antispam, antivirus, ssl...) using Docker.
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Lazysizes
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