Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft 3 links taking over. Sidenote: this is not a Vue newsletter.

We're still months off from the official release of Craft 3 but the focus of the Craft CMS talk seems to be shifting in its direction. Case in point: the return of Straight Up Hangouts and the Craft 3 discussions there so far. There are a new batch of Craft 3 lessons from Mijingo as well.

There is still plenty of Craft 2 goodies in this issue though, so there's plenty for everyone no matter which side of the Craft fence you're sitting on.

I should point out that this is not a Vue.js newsletter, but you might get that impression by the time you finish this issue. The Craft community seems to be in love with Vue.js right now.

Please welcome Peers Conference to Craft Link List. Peers is once-again approaching. It's your chance to meet the great folks behind many of the links from the newsletter in real life. Get your tickets now!

Enough talk. Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3 beta 7

Since the previous issue, we've had Craft 3 beta 6 and 7. The changelog is extensive. Check it out for what's new.

What if you find a bug in Craft 3?

Craft 3 beta is, obviously, a beta. What should you do if you think you've spotted a bug? Here's what Brandon suggested on Slack:

Any time you find template code that stopped working,

1) check https://github.com/craftcms/docs/blob/master/en/upgrade.md to see if it's one of the few known breaking changes in v2

2) if not, post an issue on https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues so we can review it and determine if it's actually an unintended breaking change, or if we just forgot to mention it in the upgrade guide

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

5 Things I Love About Visual Studio Code

Selvin Ortiz makes a case for VSC.

Twig for Craft 2 - Visual Studio Marketplace

If you use Visual Studio Code or if Selvin convinced you that you should be with the previous post, be sure to grab his Twig for Craft 2 snippets for VSC. FYI, you'll need a package that provides Twig language support.

How to Install Composer.

New to Composer? Mijingo has you covered there with this free lesson.

How to Install Craft 3 video

Mijingo has another free lesson this month on installing Craft 3 beta.

Be Awesome in PHPStorm

Client Controlled Site Navigation

Sean Smith from Caffeine Creations has a quick tutorial that walk through making a client-editable site navigation without the need of any plugins.

Want to change the font of Redactor II?

Craft CMS Stack Exchange has a couple options for you.

Perfecting your technique

Migrating a plugin from Craft 2 to Craft 3

Straight Up Hangouts is back!

Managing Multiple Sites in Craft 3 – Sites and Localization

More Straight Up Hangouts on Craft 3.

ImageOptim plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

Automatically optimizes images after they've been transformed.

Andrew, I owe you a beer.

How Agencies & Freelancers Should Do Web Hosting

Andrew, I owe you yet another proverbial beer.

Docker-php-fpm

Erik Weber, aka terbolous, shared his Dockerfile based on Alpine. You might be more interested in his Craft specific Docker build for Craft mentioned in issue 29.

Backup Suite

Backup database, static files and config to AWS S3 with Cronjob, by Johannes Lamers.

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

Sprout SEO Plugin v3 (for Craft 2.x)

Sprout SEO provide you an intuitive, seamless, and flexible way to manage your SEO strategy within Craft CMS 2.x

If you hurry, you can get this on sale during it's launch week and save 40%-50%.

Craft 3 Transcoder

Transcode video & audio files to various formats, and provide video thumbnails. (Beer +1)

Published Event

Triggers an event for entries when they are published

Quote Basket

Provides quick quote functionality to Craft CMS without the need for eCommerce for Craft 2.4.x and Craft 2.5.x.

Snipcart

Low cost alternative to Commerce.

Craft Autolink

Automatically links keywords in your content to other entries or urls

The Craft Advantage

Draft and share

Another Craft selling point if you need it.

Craft CMS Content Builder — Part I

David Hellmann discusses Craft CMS. Well, he does if I trust Google's translation from German. I don't speak the language though but it does look Crafty.