Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Another august collection of Craft Links.

Hello Crafters. This issue brings you another collection of Craft CMS news, tips and links to fill up the end of your summer, assuming you're actually having summer where you live. Perfect for an afternoon poolside or laptop-side.

Say hello to the sponsors bringing you this issue, Sifter, the issue tracker for nibmle teams, and fortrabbit, a newly-minted official hosting partner for Craft CMS.

Enough talk. Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Official Craft Hosting Partners announced

The Craft CMS has named 2 official hosts for getting the most out of Craft, fortrabbbit and Arcustech. Congrats!

Craft 3 beta 23 released

The march of progress continues.

Craft CMS 2.6.2988 released

Loose ends. Tied.

The State of Developer Ecosystem 2017

JetBrains (makers of PHPStorm and other dev apps) are sharing their research on what people are coding in.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Why do some scripts omit the closing PHP tag, '?>'?

Using the Twig batch filter

Mijingo has a free lesson to up your Twig skills. Learn how to use the batch filter instead of conditionals to control multi-column layout.

Twig Include Passing Data

Mijingo keeps the hits coming. This time Ryan shows the Twig include statement can do more than just help break your templates up into reusable chunks.

Can I rename my craft/ folder?

How can I check from a plugin config file if devMode is enabled?

Making Websites Better through Accessibility

Another great article from Andrew Welch. ADA compliance is more than a nice-to-have feature. It's respecting your users.

Twitter: A nice way to do `{% cache %}` exemption in @CraftCMS

Andrew, I owe you another.

Twitter: Redactor II tip

+2 Redactor II setting pastePlainText which can alleviate formatting headaches.

Twitter: Draft entries tip

+3

Does Craft have an installer error log I can check?

Select entries starting with same letter from alphabetic list

Interesting question from StackExchange.

I'd like to add links at the top of the page (for a library of games): A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

Video: Contract builder video using Craft

Awesome Craft

A collection of awesome Craft CMS plugins, articles, resources and shiny things.

How do you uninstall a plugin in Craft 3?

When asked this question in the Craft Slack channel, Brandon said "composer remove will just remove the files; you should click Uninstall in the CP before you do that."

CraftX: A Date with CSS Grid

CraftX covering CSS Grid.

Use Globals in email templates

Perfecting your technique

VueJS ❤️ Craft CMS - Single Page App: searching or filtering entries by title

Should I commit the dependencies in my vendor directory?

Composer. Embrace it.

inStockNotifier

A user on StackExchange asked how to notify users when item is back in stock when using Craft Commerce. Out of the box, you can't, but a someone, n-dw, wrote his or her first plugin to solve the problem.

This plugin allows users to request to be notified via email when a product is restocked.