Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Focus on your Craft, Craft 3, that is.

Woot. The Craft 3 beta has landed right as this issue was wrapping. So along with the Craft 2 updates, you've got a whole new major of Craft to get to know.

The Craft community amazes me once again. There are loads of good discoveries below. Each one seems designed to make you better at Craft and development in general.

Thank you to this issue's sponsors.

First up, fortrabbit is back again to let you know about their painless Craft hosting. (And, yes, they're ready for the brand new Craft 3 beta with PHP 7, Composer, ENV var based configs, etc.)

And welcome a new sponsor, Webtexttool and their realtime SEO tool. Tell 'em Craft Link List sent you.

Enough talk. Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Get your Craft 2 & Commerce updates.

Craft 2 got bumped to version 2.6.2959 and Craft Commerce bumped to version 1.2.1334. If you've logged into your sites today, you probably already know that though. Hit that update button. (Make a back for safety.)

The master list of Craft 3-compatible plugins

As I write this, the Craft 3 beta just came out and there are just 3 plugins there... for now. Watch this space.

Craft 3 + Composer

Craft 3 is available as a Composer package, and for the duration of the Beta, Composer is the only way to install Craft 3.

Just installing Composer for the first time? If you're on a Mac, install composer globally, or, on Windows follow these instructions.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Tips for making a kick awesome blog in Craft CMS

Creating a Content Builder in Craft CMS

Andrew continues his quest to make Craft devs the smartest devs in the business.

LoadJS as a Lightweight JavaScript Loader

Andrew on how to use LoadJS as a lightweight JavaScript loader & dependency manager instead of using <script> tags.

How do I use the Element API to search via entry title?

Craft CMS Stack Exchange knows the answer.

How Craft Determines the Site URL

From the docs.

Craft CMS social media macro

Sean Smith shares his social media macro.

Get to know your Craft 3 directory structure

Perfecting your technique

What's the best way to skip CSRF for plugin controllers?

This might be of interest only to plug in developers.

Easily switch between the major versions of PHP for testing

Not exactly Craft specific but this was developed for the purpose of testing Craft plugin development between different PHP versions.

Forge / deploybot / buddy.works deploy script

A script to clear the Craft caches automatically when you deploy your Craft site.

Use Cases for a Headless CMS

Nginx Craft

An Nginx virtual host configuration for Craft CMS that implements a number of best-practices.

Multi-Environment Config for Craft CMS

Andrew, I owe you a beer.

ServiceWorkers and Offline Browsing

Andrew, I owe you a beer.

Getting all content, including Matrix fields from an EntryModel

Craft Installer

Install Craft CMS from the command line.

Sponsor

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Plugged In

Craft Email Whitelist

Whitelist emails for Craft. In Slack, the author, Jason Etcovitch, was asking for feedback on it. Drop him a line there.

Craft Safe Delete

Delete elements without breaking relations. The author, Christian Ruhstaller, noted in Slack that this is still "an early release".

Sidebar Enhancer

Craft plugin that adds extended options to Craft's sidebar.

The Craft Advantage

How secure is Craft and why is it secure?

There was an interesting question posed in Slack on how Craft passwords were stored. This Stack Exchange post goes into a lot detail about Craft security, but regarding how passwords are stored, "Craft requires mcrypt with blowfish for password hashing, arguably the currently most secure and reliable method of password encryption." So, now you know.

Craft Benchmarks

Overheard

An interesting chat about Craft CMS on the Boagworld Show

Here's the episode being referenced by this Tweet. The Craft CMS talk starts at about 23:15.