Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Hop aboard the beta train.

The Craft 3 beta is now a couple weeks old. As with any beta, there are bugs, but the P&T team seems to be squashing those at a rapid pace. (Applause goes here.)

Fortrabbit is back as featured sponsor for this issue. They've not mentioned it in their ad but I see they're offering pre-installed PHP 7.2 if interested in future-proofing your work. (Yeah, I'm talking to you.)

There are more of you out there writing up helpful posts on how you make amazing things using Craft. If you're inspired to do that same, please drop me a line at [email protected] or hit me up on Slack.

Let's hit the links.

-John

News

Craft 3 beta change log

Keep up with the changes in Craft 3 with the Craft 3 beta change log. Bookmark this one.

Work With Craft Professional Profiles

Work With Craft has added Professional Profiles. Get your best mug shot up there and get to work.

Featured Sponsor

fortrabbit: PHP as a Service

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Preventing Google from Indexing Staging Sites

Craft 3 debugging tip

No link here — just a tip mentioned in Slack that seemed good to pass along. In Craft 3, the Debug Toolbar can be enabled without Dev Mode. I didn't realize that. Handy.

Optimizing Performance for Craft 3

Another random tip spotted in Slack earlier this month from Brandon.

FYI (and probably should document this...) if you want to get optimized performance out of Craft 3, make sure you run this first:

composer dump-autoload -o

Perfecting your technique

Craft CMS 3 plugin development documentation

Creating a Travel Route or Points of Interest Google Map in your Craft CMS Blog

Building a Store Locator with Craft CMS and Smart Map

Multi-attribute variant selection in Craft Commerce

JSON-LD, Structured Data and Erotica

It is safe for work.

Resolving Git Merge Conflicts

Mijingo has a free Git lesson on merge conflicts linked above along with a full course of Git lessons for you if you want to pony up for the full course.

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.

Plugged In

Element API updated for Craft 3

Create a JSON API for your elements in Craft 3.

Widgets for Freeform Plugin for Craft

Dashboard Widgets Bundle for Solspace Freeform. Includes Linear Charts, Radial Charts, Field Value Charts and Recent Submissions.

Revved URL

This Twig function revs asset urls with the date modified timestamp.

Rich Variables

Easily use Craft Globals as variables in Rich Text fields.

Admin Bar - Craft 3 version

AdminBar comes to Craft 3. Front-end shortcuts for clients logged into Craft CMS.

Neo v1.4.1

Neo gets nice upgrade this week including tricks such as "Neo-to-Matrix conversion, collapsed block content summaries, a bunch of locale-related fixes and a tonne more."

Google Maps for Craft

The complete geolocation toolkit for Craft CMS.

Entitle

AP-style title capitalization for Craft CMS.

The Craft Advantage

Why choose Craft Commerce over Magento?

Are you debating store solutions? Check out this Stack Exchange post to help you decide.