Introduction
Back to Craft time.
The lazy days of summer? Not for Craft CMS. Craft 3 development has been on a roll. May kicked off with Craft beta 14 and now we're now at beta 26. Get ready for an exciting fall.
This issue brings news of speakers at the official Craft conference, the details on the latest Craft 3 betas, workflow ideas, plug-ins, tips and more.
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Let's hit the links.
-John Morton
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Top Stories
Craft 3 introduction and Q&A with Brandon Kelly
If you haven't been to one of the meet ups where Brandon discusses the last 3 years of development work that's gone into Craft 3, catch up with this recording from this San Francisco Craft CMS Meetup.
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Speaking of speakers.
Dot All, the official Craft CMS conference, has posted the speaker list to the site. Looks like a great line up. Hope to see you there.
Craft Link List
News
Craft 3 Beta 24, 25, 26 released
In Beta 24 update news: If you used "Tasks" when authoring your plugins, we should talk about that. Your "tasks" have gone to live on a farm in the country. Meet your new friend, "Job Queue".
If your plugin provides any custom task types, here are details on converting 'tasks' to jobs. Brandon mentioned one advantage is "you can create workers with console requests, which will be much more reliable than web requests."
Beta 25 and 26 included many more fixes, but the tasks change from Beta 24 seems like a big one to notice .
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Tools, tips, and fundamentals
SQL Error: GROUP BY incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
If you're using Craft 2 and you see the error SQL Error: GROUP BY incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by, you are not alone.
What's going on? MySQL 5.7.5 changed the changed the GROUP BY behavior.
"The good news is that this has been fixed already in Craft 3 since we refactored the way that elements query grabs data and it no longer uses a GROUP BY. The bad news is that it's going to be pretty impractical to backport that fix into Craft 2."
Find the fix to add to your craft/config/db.php in this Stack Exchange post.
Blendid
A delicious blend of gulp tasks combined into a configurable asset pipeline and static site builder.
yarn run blendid -- init-craft
Setting up a local dev environment for Craft CMS using Laravel Homestead
I missed this link from 2014. You might also want to check out this 2017 post as well.
medium.com
Craft CMS Connector for Acclaro translation services
Acclaro is a translation service for websites. This page is their info on their new Craft CMS offering. They posted this video walkthru as well. If you've got clients who need translation, check this out.
acclaro.com
Got a Forge and Login 404 problem?
This may be of interest to you if you use Forge and are having trouble logging into your control panel in Craft. It appears to affect only newly provisioned servers.
Andrew mentioned on Slack, "It’s something they added to the default config, that you can easily strip out."
It's always something.
stackexchange.com
Perfecting your technique
A Gulp Workflow for Frontend Development Automation
Andrew Welch continues to make us better developers.
nystudio107.com
How to Setup a Localized Multi-Environment Craft Site
DesignKarma takes on multi-environments.
designkarma.co.uk
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Plugged In
Notifier
Notifier for Craft is a plugin that provides Airbrake notifications to Codebase and/or Airbrake.io.
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MN BreakAndContinue
Marion Newlevant has a handy plugin that adds {%break%} and {%continue%} Twig tags to Craft. If you're on Craft 3, check out the "craft3" branch.
If you need even more Twig features, Marion suggested checking the MN Twig Perversion plugin instead, which includes these features and more.
github.com
Embedder Plugin for Craft CMS
Embedder is a plugin for Craft CMS based on Antenna by Vector Media Group that will generate the exact, most up-to-date YouTube, Vimeo, Wistia, or Viddler embed code available.
github.com
Cloudflare Craft Plugin
Automatically purge Cloudflare URLs when specific Assets and Entries are edited. Optionally clear the whole thing from the Craft (v2) control panel as well.
github.com
Routemap
Returns a list of Craft/Vue/React route rules and entry & asset URLs for ServiceWorkers from Craft entries.
github.com
The Craft Advantage
Redesigning our website with AREA 17
medium.com"Wordpress was out for security issues alone — enough said. We ended up with Craft sitting on AWS and we’re still feeling good vibes about our selection."