Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Incoming: Craft 3 beta 20 news, tips, links & more

It's mid-July but Craft is moving at warp speed. There have been 3 releases of Craft 3 and one for Craft 2 since the last isssue. This issue is packed with news on the major Craft 3 beta 20 release, plus posts on upping your dev game, and lots of tips, plugins and more for both Craft 2.x and 3.

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Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Beta 20 Update Guide

Craft beta 20 was a major update and the Craft team has written an update guide to help sort all the breaking changes.

Pluginfactory updated for Craft 3 beta 20 compatibility

pluginfactory.io is now generating scaffolding compatible with Craft 3 beta 20.

Craft CMS v 2.6.2986

It's not all Craft 3 news this issue. Most likely you're running Craft 2 sites. There's been a minor update to Craft 2 since the previous issue as well.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Debugging a slow page load.

Andrew Welch offered a tip in Slack on figuring out why a Craft page might be loading slowly. There's no link to share, just the tip itself.

"Usually [the slow loading page is] a result of non-performant SQL queries not plugins.

Whenever you have performance issues, instead of guessing [at the cause], profile. You can start by loading the page with devMode on and looking at the profiling info from the JavaScript console."

How to get the author of current entry version.

Login Form Templating Reference Update

A small update was recently made to the Craft documentation on the Login Form about redirection that seemed worth noting.

By default, users will be redirected based on your postLoginRedirect config setting value after logging in. You can override that within your login form using a redirect param.

Perfecting your technique

How to Create Structured Data in Craft

Ian Ebden from DesignKarma discusses structured data (think social metadata) and Craft CMS.

Using Feed Me to Migrate from ExpressionEngine to Craft CMS

The Feed Me plugin by S. Group is mentioned a lot in Slack. This page has been referenced a few times regarding using it to move from EE to Craft.

Craft CMS – Dev to Production with Nanobox

How to use the Nanobox service and Craft CMS.

Support for Imgix in Imager for Craft

No more execution timeouts? No more memory issues? Low TTFB no matter how many transforms you create? WebP, Jpeg-XR and Jpeg-2000 delivered automatically? It might be just a config setting away.

CraftX - Docker for PHP Developers

Jason McCallister was the featured guest on this CraftX webcast discussing Docker.

Deploying Craft CMS Github repo

This site is mentioned in the CraftX episode above by Jason McCallister. He is starting a new project about Docker and Craft CMS. This git repo will be the home of the project as it grows. There's not a lot to see here yet, but he's building it all here in public. Bookmarked.

How do I have my control panel in English but my site locale to Klingon?

Sponsor

Pic Puller: The Instagram plugin for Craft CMS

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Plugged In

yml2twig

This plugin reads a Yaml file and inject its content as a Twig variable.

Imager Pretransform

Pretransform any Assets on save, with Imager from Fred Carlsen at Superbig.

Craft 3 Image Optimize

Automatically optimizes images after they've been transformed.

FastCGI Cache Bust for Craft 2.x

Last issue, there was a link to this plugin for Craft 3. It's also available for Craft 2. Get to bustin'.

Craft CMS Polls

A fully featured polls plugin for Craft CMS. Including translatable questions and options, custom fields for answer options, anonymous voting or login required, a bar graph in the answers admin section, other option for free text input.

GTpoll: Polls plugin for Craft

When asked about the future of this free plugin, the author said he "created GT Polls really as a quick sample plugin. there's not really that much to it, and i threw it up on Github if people were interested but i have no plans to add features or update it for Craft 3 at the moment."

Craft Two-factor Authentication

Craft 2 plugin for two-factor or two-step login using Time Based OTP (TOTP, like Google Authenticator). Every user can setup TOTP themselves, the plugin does not force users. Admins can list usage in user tables.