Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Issue #42: The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything related to Craft CMS.

Welcome to issue 42.

This issue's big news is the critical security patch for Craft 2 sites. Check out the "Top stories" section for details. Don't stop there though. There's plenty more to discover in this issue.

As always, thanks to the sponsors! Say hello to them.

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Also welcome Craft Sherlock to CLL. This plugin will help keep your Craft site's security in check. If you have Sherlock installed you know about the recent security update already. Get Sherlock here.
Solspace is back again this issue with a sale on the power tool for forms, Freeform. Get a copy while it's on sale.

Grab your towel! Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craftcms Craft CMS : List of security vulnerabilities

CVE Details lists security vulnerabilities of all kinds of software and this is their (short!) page on Craft CMS. If you're wondering about the same list for Wordpress, here you go. Just get a refill on your coffee first.

1000 Slack Communities

Standuply published data about IT-related communities on Slack. The results are broken down into categories. Craft CMS comes up on top. If you're not on the Craft Slack group, sign up and join in.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

How to create a Asset subfolder in Craft

Schedule a draft to auto publish?

Craft 3 Front-End Resources doc page

There's no more includecssresource in Craft 3 plug in development. What do you do? Use Asset Bundles. You can see this in action in the Rich Variables plugin for Craft 3.x from nystudio107.

This entry springs from my own development issues. I asked on Slack and the community stepped in to help.

What is the easiest way to include bootstrap in Craft?

Set up Google Site Search Analytics with Craft CMS

Perfecting your technique

The Case of the Missing PHP Session

Another knowledge drop by Andrew Welch. "A SaaS website created with Craft CMS was logging out sessions after 30 minutes; here’s how I solved it."

In Slack it was called "required reading for anyone using an Ubuntu VPS."

Craft Apple Pay

Front end implementation for Apple Pay in Craft, using the Stripe implementation. As I write this, the instructions on implementing this code block are not yet written, but you may still want to check it out.

DRY Templating with Twig and Craft CMS

Craft 3 Docker

Dylan Smith has shared his Docker build for Craft 3.

Craft 3 config options highlighted

A question by Selvin Ortiz in Slack lead to a brief discussion on setting Craft 3 configuration options in config files instead of storing those values in the database. Brandon pointed to the Craft 3 config options page showing this is not possible.

Your .env file will have been loaded by the time Craft gets to parsing the configs files so you can use getenv() to set the config options based on your dev, staging, production environments.

Subscribe a user to Mailchimp during checkout in Craft Commerce

9 tips for speeding up your Imager transforms

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Solspace Freeform

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Plugged In

Craft3 Asset Rev

Rev asset urls with date modified timestamps with Craft 3 with this plugin from Newism.

Abandoned Carts Recovery

Recover abandoned Commerce carts, and increase sales by Superbig.

Abandoned Cart

This plugin notifies your customers that they have abandoned their shopping carts and did not finish the complete order process by Digital Agency WHITE.

Shortcut

This plugin from Superbig let's you create short urls on Craft 2.4.x and above.

Logout Redirect

Superbig bring another plugin to the Craft world. Configurable redirect after logging out.

Beam

Fred Carlsen does it again, with this addition to his plugin library you can generate CSV and XLS files in your templates.

Double Secret Agency Plugins

Double Secret Agency has opened a store for all their plugins.

Discoverability of your Craft plugins on Github

Brandon made a suggestion for making the plugins you write for Craft CMS more discoverable on Github, "you should just give your repos a craft-plugin topic" and for Craft 3 plugins, add a 2nd topic of craft3.

But what is a "topic" in Github terms? Read the Github topics help page here.

Address, telephone and email fields for CraftCMS 3.x

Newism has released a collection of impressive looking field types for Craft 3. I'm looking forward to using these.

Richvariables

Allows you to easily use Craft Globals as variables in Rich Text fields

a&m command - v2

Keyboard jockey alert: This plugin was mentioned back in it's v1 days in Issue 23 but it's received a big update you might want to check out. It provides a command palette when you navigate through the backend in Craft.

The Craft Advantage

Inspiring New Entrepreneurs with Craft and Salesforce

There is a great new case study on how people are using Craft on the official site.

Names redacted to protect the amazed.

From Slack.

Viget Book of CMS

A PDF on CMS choices last updated in January 2017: "Unlike WordPress, you may not have heard of Craft. And that, I think, is highly unfortunate. As you’ll read below, we love Craft here at Viget and tend to prefer it over WordPress."

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