Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft didn't take a holiday.

I thought August was supposed to be a slow month. I was wrong. The Craft 3 Dev Preview kept moving ahead, now at version 3.0.2687, and there were a lot of great links about Craft to keep up with. Let's get to it.

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Craft Link List. Please share with your Craft-loving friends and co-workers.

-John Morton

News

Craft Usage Statistics

How Craft is doing out in the world? Builtwith is charting its growth. Up, up and away.

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

How safe is auto-updating?

You probably auto-update. It's one of the great things about Craft, but its safety was discussed on the Craft CMS Stack Exchange recently.

The Twig processing order in Craft templates

You've got content in a block. You've also got an extends tag. Maybe you got a set block. What gets rendered when? Ben Parizek will tell you who's on first.

User Permissions on Ubuntu

User permissions were causing me pain on a recent server. While not Craft specific, this post saved my bacon while working on a Craft site.

Adding additional locales

A good link, directly from the Craft documentation. Ever needed to add an unsupported locale to #craftcms? Here’s how.

Templating in EE vs. Craft

Many Craft developers are also EE developers. Brandon Kelly keeps a handy Github page for devs who need to compare how the template languages vary between the two. This doc is handy especially when you're involved in 2 CMS projects at once on each platform.

About that slow site...

Perfecting your technique

A Better Approach to Developing Useful Craft Plugins

Stephen Lewis shares his experience of re-writing and re-thinking his SmartDown plugin, suggesting that we plugin devs "think of the plugin as a client of its own API." It's a short but valuable read.

Porting Patrol To Craft 3

Selvin Ortiz is porting a plugin over to Craft 3 and he shares his experience on the move.

Responsive images with Twig macros

Marion Newlevant has a smart post about responsive images in Craft and includes a useful twig macro for generating responsive image markup.

SyncCraft

SyncCraft is a command-line shell script for sites powered by Craft that makes it simple to sync your database and assets to your local machine from a remote server.

How To Handle Dependency Conflicts In Craft CMS Plugins

Composer dependency conflicts between Craft plugins are a thorny problem. Here’s a simple example, in case you’re unfamiliar with the problem, you lucky thing.

Create a JSON API for Your Content with Element API

Rounding out August, Pixel & Tonic writes about their Element API plugin.

Plugged In

ElementAPI

This is the plugin mentioned above in the Create a JSON API for Your Content with Element API link. If you read that one, you need this one.

Comments for Craft

Not a fan of using Disqus for comments? Check out Comments by Josh Crawford. Although this plugin is currently still in beta, you can now store comments in your Craft installation.

Trimmer

A single-focused smart trimming / truncating plugin for Craft.

Utensils

Utensils is plugin for Craft that extends the functionality of Twig in a wide variety of ways all wrapped into a single plugin. If you need functionality of Trimmer plus a whole lot more, be sure to check out this Swiss Army knife of a plugin.

Navigation plugin for Craft

Want more control in your control panel? In this plugin's settings you can adjust a plugin's name for your customers and disable adding, editing and deleting navigations for non-admins.

Imager for Craft

Imager is a plugin for doing image transforms in Craft templates. It does all the things that the built-in image transform functionality do – but more. Check out the demo site to see all the cool image transformation it's capable of. Looks impressive!

Overheard

What do devs want from Craft?

If you're curious about how other devs are using Craft, check out the top feature requests. It offers some insight into what the community is asking for from future versions of Craft.

Currently, the top voted feature on the Craft Feedback site is Conditionals in Field Layouts.

Drupal loses 2

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

How to survive the digital apocalypse.

Everything looks the same. Some claim that techniques, like responsive design, are the cause. Others blame trends like “flat design” for painting the web all beige.

Issue 5 September 1st 2015