Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

The newsletter with too many links.

The Craft community is very active. Once again there are a lot of links. I hope this is a good problem, I've been told recently by a few people that Craft Link List is too long.

Sorry if it's overwhelming. This is the short list, edited down from an even greater number gathered since the last issue.

If you're skimming through, here are some of my personal top picks from this issue.

There's plenty more great stuff in the issue though, so I hope are able to stick around and see what the Craft community has to share.

Thank you to Solspace for sponsoring this issue. If you've got a calendar problem to solve in Craft, the Solspace Calendar plugin has got you covered.

Enough talk. Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3 Beta 19

Craft 3 gets one step closer. Make that 19 steps.

Featured Sponsor

Calendar is the most powerful event management and calendaring plugin on the market for Craft. The intuitive drag & drop interface and powerful, flexible templating offers up both power and simplicity, giving you a variety of options to satisfy your calendaring needs. Calendar also allows you to create events with complex recurring event rules and exclusions, as well as unlimited calendar groups and layouts.

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

CraftX Hangouts

Selvin Ortiz has been hosting hangouts at CraftX. Check out the schedule and join in. Lots of great Craft tips and tooling talk.

Quick Tips: Craft CMS

Gregor Terrill shares a variety of tips on Craft development he's learned including how to build a language toggle for multilingual sites.

Using Craft CMS to Blog, Create Emails, Crop Images and More

Christopher Hallahan posted a video showcasing a top-level overview of making a blog site with the power of Craft.

Deploying CraftCMS to Digital Ocean

Jonathan Kelley continues his intro series to Craft CMS into the deployment stage. If you missed part one, it was mentioned in the previous issue of CLL.

(Note: this link was removed and replaced with a link back to the Craft CMS homepage due to the original domain being taken over by a spammer.)

Deploying Craft 3 to Production

The tutorial site Mika Teach takes on Craft 3 deployment.

Deploying Craft on AWS

How to list all User Groups and Users

Perfecting your technique

Creating a Yii Module for Craft 3

Ben Parizek has what he referred to as a "bit of a specific and technical article", but it opens up "an exciting new dimension to Craft development."

Adding a controller to an existing generator-craftplugin project

This is a quick video showing how to use the Yeoman generator-craftplugin to add additional controllers to your plugin. This is the same generator behind the scenes at https://pluginfactory.io.

How to override the Craft forgot password email

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 1.4

There is a decent chance you know about the Element API, but the changelog shows it's gotten some recent attention as it moves into Craft 3. Specifically, check out the JSON Feed and caching updates.