Introduction
Crafting your way into summer.
From my vantage point, we're headed into summer. That means focusing on anything tech becomes more difficult when it's so nice to be outdoors. Never fear. We've got your Craft-inspired beach-reading, Craft updates, coding tips, plugins and more.
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Enough talk. Let's hit the beach... I mean, the links.
-John Morton
Craft Link List
News
Craft 2 gets several security fixes
Craft 2.6.2984 and 2.6.2985 have come out since the previous issue. Get to updating.
craftcms.com
Featured Sponsor
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Tools, tips, and fundamentals
The Guide to Craft CMS Development
Ryan Masuga has published an ebook with lots of Craft CMS know-how between the virtual covers. He's offering Craft List List readers a 15% discount until July 15 too. Just say the secret word. No, not "swordfish"... "craftlinklist".
Coupon code: craftlinklist
gomasuga.com
Security Concerns in Craft CMS
Ben Croker, creator of the Sherlock plugin, talks security in Craft. The specific issue he addresses was fixed but it's good to know these things.
straightupcraft.com
Perfecting your technique
Static Page Caching with Craft CMS
Get the best of both worlds with static HTML generator performance on the frontend, and a content editor friendly db-based backend.
nystudio107.com
Laravel Mix in a non-Laravel project
Interested in Craft (of course!) and Webpack (yes!), Start your reading.
digitalevangelist.net
Text Alignment plugin for Redactor II
The default install of Redactor II, the rich-text field for Craft, doesn't have alignment options available by default, but you add them with this plugin. Also check this out Redactor Inline Styles plugin for Craft CMS.
imperavi.com
Sponsor
Solspace Calendar
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. On sale now for only $69!
solspace.com
Plugged In
Craft Cookie Consent
Adds a Cookie Consent popup to Craft. Just click yes and move along.
github.com
Activate Users
This plugin adds "Activate account" permissions so that non-admins can activate users.
github.com
Craft3 FastCGI Cache Bust
Bust the Nginx FastCGI Cache when entries are saved or created.
github.com
The Craft Advantage
It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.
Splitting Up A Git Repository
Mijingo has posted another helpful lesson Git. Although Mijingo has advertised their Git course on Craft Link List in the past, this isn't an ad, just a link taking you to some great content.
mijingo.com
Charles Web Debugging Proxy
Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).
charlesproxy.com
Next.js
A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript webapps, built on top of React, Webpack and Babel.
zeit.co
Webpack 3: Official Release
I thought the only 3 we were waiting on was Craft 3. I was wrong.
medium.com