Issue 37: No April Fools Jokes.

Introduction

No April Fools Jokes.

As this issue heads out the door, it is April 1, April Fools Day, my least favorite day on the Internet. You can never fully trust what you read on April Fools Day. Not here. There are no pranks below, just perhaps a jab or two at WordPress.

This issue is the longest issue ever of Craft Link List, but it's culled down from an even longer list of links collected over the past 2 weeks. 29 links were cut. There may be a out-of-cycle issue soon to catch up.

Thank you to everyone who has sent links. Keep sending them my way. And thank you to all the authors who've written the excellent content. You make the Craft community a great place to hangout.

Welcome Peers Conference back again to CLL. The conference is getting close now. If you don't have your ticket yet, get it today!

Enough talk. Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3.0.0-beta 9

Look how much it's grown!

Note from Brandon on Craft 3 licensing

the whole "you can't distribute Craft yourself" thing is going away in the v3 license, since it doesn't make sense anymore w/ Craft up on GitHub

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Mijingo has 3 Craft 3 videos for you.

Redactor 2 Non-Breaking Space Fix

Redactor 2 might need a little help every now and then generating beautiful HTML. Here's a fix for those errant non-break space characters.

HTTP/2 Test

Verify if your server or CDN supports HTTP/2.

Set up event listings with entry post dates that are in the future

How to get entries NOT related to categories

There are several possible answers, but Marion sweeps in for the winner.

{% set uncategorizedEntries = craft.entries.section('news').search('-category:*') %}

What's New in PhpStorm 2017.1

One of the "editors of choice" gets an update for 2017.

Task Master - Visual Studio Marketplace

Automatic task management and execution for Gulp, NPM, Shell and more from the comfort of VS Code.

Case-sensitivity between environments

No link, just a tip: In the plugindev channel on Slack, someone mentioned having a plugin that worked locally but didn't work on the staging server. What was going on? It turns out the dev environment was not case-sensitive but the staging environment was.

Perfecting your technique

Images and Image Editing in Craft 3

A Straight Up Hangout about images in Craft 3. (It inspired the next link in the newsletter as well.)

Using WebP images in Craft with Imager

Deliver WebP images to users in a standard-compliant way to the users who have support for it.

After you read this, be sure to check out the update to Andrew Welch's Creating Optimized Images in Craft CMS which has been updated for WebP as well.

Wow. Really cool stuff to both authors. Thanks.

Guetzli: Perceptual JPEG encoder

Make smaller JPEGs thanks to some company named after a really big number.

The Living Component Librar

A post on how Clearleft integrated their component library into Craft.

Updated element type page for field layout changes in Beta 8

This is only of interest to you if you're doing custom element types in the Craft 3 beta. Brandon mentioned on Slack, "not sure if anyone has started working on custom element types in Craft 3 yet, but if so, there were some changes to field layouts in Beta 8 that will affect you."

Scheduler

Josh Angell has a written this post on Scheduler plugin, which is mentioned below in this issue in the Plugged In section.

How to write secure Yii applications

Progressive Web Apps: The Next Step in Responsive Web Design

Importing Entries from ExpressionEngine to Craft CMS

Stack Exchange on the case.

Migrating a Field Type plugin from Craft 2 to Craft 3

Another Straight Up Hangout, this time about plugin migration.

Mitigating Disaster via Website Backups

Andrew makes you better. Beer +1, my friend.

Craft CMS: Building Complex Queries by Extending the ElementCriteriaModel

Great post on the ElementCriteriaModel.

How get custom user fields in a plugin.

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

Craft 3 Asset Rev

A Craft 3 plugin to help with cache busting

Article

The Article plugin eases the pain of rendering Matrix and Markdown-powered content.

Tablemaker

A user-definable table field type for Craft CMS

Scheduler

A plugin for Craft CMS that allows you to schedule jobs to be executed on a given date.

Craft Geo

A simple plugin to get information about your users’ location.

KeyCDN Craft Plugin

Automatically clear KeyCDN's cache for an Asset when it's updated in Craft, and provide the option to nuke the entire KeyCDN cache from the control panel.

Button-Box

A collection of utility field types for Craft: Buttons, Colors, Text Size, Stars, Width, Triggers. Gotta catch 'em all.

Parsedown

Parsedown plugin for Craft

Craft Gravatar

Craft CMS plugin allowing you to easily insert an avatar URL or image from Gravatar.

The Craft Advantage

Why Content Writers Love Craft CMS

Sean Smith on why Craft CMS's flexibility makes for happy site owners.

Why you should be considering Craft over WordPress

Check. There's that WordPress dig you've been waiting for.

Overheard

Postgres? Just point.

Nerd

Patience and tweaking

I feel like posting.

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

CSS Grid for the win

There were many CSS Grid links for this issue, so I've condensed them down to a single listing here. I can personally highly recommend the Egghead videos. In 42 minutes, you'll have this down pat.

Here's the exhaustive list of CSS Grid links.