Issue 35: Short month, lots of links.

Introduction

Short month, lots of links.

Craft Link List is comprised of links you and other Craft CMS users create and share in Slack, Twitter and elsewhere. Links accumulate each day between issues. February, with fewer days in the month, could mean less content, right? Not here. We head into March with loads of interesting content from the past couple of weeks.

We start with the Craft 3 docs on updating your plugins. Then we move on to updates for both Craft 2.x and the Craft 3 beta. Plus there are tips big and small, plugins and other goodies to keep you busy.

Fortrabbit returns to sponsor of the newsletter again. (Thank you!) Check them out if you need some finely-tuned Craft hosting. They've also posted a getting started guide for Craft 3 in the Tools, tips and fundamentals section below. Be sure to check that out.

Enough talk. Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 2.6.292 - The Stalled Tasks Update

The Control Panel now recognizes potentially-stalled tasks, and gives the user the option to retry or cancel them as of Craft 2.6.292.

Craft CMS 2.6.2963 - The Redactor II Update

This update includes Redactor II version 2.2. Since v 2.0, Redactor II includes "sharp and sleek icons in the toolbar by default." (See the Redactor changelog here.) Check out an example of how to do this in the Redactor docs. (BTW, with the regular Craft release schedule, we're already at v 2.6.294.)

Craft 3.0.0- Beta 5 released

Just keep updating.

composer update

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Implementing Critical CSS on your website

Andrew isn't going to let you down this issue, right? Here he is with tips on integrating Critical CSS for your Craft site.

Changing Name of Singles and Structures in Craft

Mijingo's got a tip for making the Craft control panel bend to your will.

Install Craft CMS 3 on fortrabbit

Fortrabbit has published a guide to getting Craft 3 up and running.

Content Strategy And Building Websites With Craft CMS

HINT: Use your arrow keys to navigate this presentation.

How We Load Web Fonts Progressively

Migrating Posts From Craft CMS to WordPress

Moving to WordPress from Craft? The pain is too much...

Perfecting your technique

Autocomplete Search with the Element API & VueJS

+1

Speeding Up the Craft CMS Admin Dashboard

Zachary Flower has a post on speeding up the Craft 2.x control panel.

Friend-of-newsletter Andrews says, "his points are valid, static resources should not go through the whole CGI codepath before being served, which is why Craft 3 via Yii2 has it publish all of the AdminCP static assets to the frontend via /cpresources.

This "becomes a non-issue in Craft 3."

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

Feed Me 2.0 released

Feed Me is a Craft CMS plugin for super-simple importing of content, either once-off or at regular intervals. There is a guide for updating from v1 if that applies to you. Plus, for a limited time, it's 50% off.

Craft 3 Pathtools

This Twig plugin for the Craft CMS brings convenient path & url manipulation functions & filters to your Twig templates.

Element Importers

Element Importers allow you to take advantage of Craft's Element API and common behaviors consistent across Elements.

Craft 3 Multi Environment

Efficient and flexible multi-environment config for Craft CMS.

Craft 3 Recipe

A comprehensive recipe FieldType for Craft CMS that includes metric/imperial conversion, portion calculation, and JSON-LD microdata support.

Superbig Plugins

Fred Carlsen has collected all his Craft plugins in one spot. Collect them all.

Sprout Encode Email Plugin

Don't let spam harvesters steal your email address from your webpage. Encode your email addresses using several different methods to keep your privacy and hide your email bounty from those devious robots lurking around on your site.