Introduction
The Post-Dot All 2017 issue.
The first Dot All conference is a wrap! It was great to meet so many fellow Craft people who I've only known from Slack before. 🍻
If you didn't get to go this year, next year's Dot All, there is good news for you though. Some of the presentation decks are featured in this issue. Plus, videos were made of the presentations and should be available soon. Stay tuned on that front.
Thank you to fortrabbit for sponsoring this issue. If you need hosting, and, let's be honest, you make Craft sites so you probably do, check them out. (As a bonus, be also check out and Upper from Oliver Stark, team member at fortrabbit, which "speeds up Craft dramatically.")
Did I miss a link? Be sure to send it to me. Contact details are on every page of the Craft Link List site.
There's a lot to cover so let's hit the links.
-John Morton
Craft Link List
Top Stories
What We Announced at Dot All 2017
Here's the official release from Craft CMS on what happened at Dot All.
craftcms.com
Hey plugin devs
Craft CMS has a message for plugin devs: "If you have any FREE plugins you’d like to be part of the #Craft3 RC1 launch, PR to https://github.com/craftcms/plugins soon!"
twitter.com
News
Ep. 15 — #dotall2017 Recap by Keeping Up With Craft
The Keeping Up With Craft podcast had a timely take on Dot All.
soundcloud.com
CKEditor 5 Developer Preview (v1.0.0-alpha.1)
The upcoming release of Craft 3 RC1 provides options when it comes to rich text editors. Check out this alpha version of CKEditor to whet your appetite for what's to come. If you like it, no more Redactor woes for you.
github.io
Featured Sponsor
Craft CMS Hosting Partner
fortrabbit is affordable, easy-to-use, scalable, and super developer-friendly. Regardless of the size of your project, fortrabbit takes care of the AWS heavy lifting allowing you to focus on development.
fortrabbit.com
Tools, tips, and fundamentals
Craft Tips & Tricks by Alex Van Holtz
Alex Van Holtz had a presentation at Dot All chocked full of tip and tricks she's learned about making smart Craft CMS sites. ⭐️
dropbox.com
Grouping entries by title?
Check out this StackExchange post and the group Twig filter.
How do I add custom styles/plugins to the rich text editor in Craft?
Get fancy with your Redactor.
stackexchange.com
Perfecting your technique
Crafting Modern SEO
Check out Andrew Welch's speaker deck from his SEO presentation at Dot All 2017. ⭐️
speakerdeck.com
Craft design resources
Travis Gertz gave an inspiring presentation at Dot All about pushing design to its limits using Craft. Here are his presentation materials. ⭐️
louderthanten.com
RESTful API with Craft 3
Nate Iler shared a deep-drive on making a RESTful API with Craft 3 at the DotAll conference. Here's the link he shared in the presentation. You might also want to check out the git repo as well. (That's also linked below in this issue.)
flipboxlabs.com
REST application components for Yii2 and Craft CMS
This is the repo for Nate Iler's REST application components for Yii2 and Craft CMS presentation from DotAll 2017. ⭐️
github.com
Content Strategy: The Method Behind the (CMS) Madness
Carrie Hane presented the deck linked to above at Dot All 2017. There are loads of great ideas in this presentation. Also check out her tools and templates to guide content-first web design projects. ⭐️
slideshare.net
How To Integrate Craft Commerce with Sage 100
If you like Mitchell Kimbrough's part 1 post, don't miss part2 as well.
solspace.com
Plugged In
Upper - the pep pill for your Craft site
Check out Oliver Stark's Upper which integrates Edge Caches like Fastly, KeyCDN, Varnish with Craft. Bookmark that one. You're going to want it later if not right now. ⭐️
github.com
Lists
Allow users to subscribe to, follow, or like any Element including Entries, Categories, Products, Users, and Lists.
barrelstrengthdesign.com
Specific Categories plugin for Craft CMS 2.x
A Categories field type with the behavior of an Entries field type.
Relate and reorder individual categories without their ancestors being automatically populated. Useful for looping over and outputting elements only related to specific "Featured" Categories, for example.
github.com
MailChimp Commerce
MailChimp Commerce is a Craft CMS plugin that automatically subscribes customers to a single MailChimp list when they are going through the checkout process using Craft Commerce.
github.com
Overheard
It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.
odrive - Sync all cloud storage in one place
I heard about this one from Mike Hughes who is unreasonably enthusiastic about odrive. What does it do? "It makes any cloud storage unified, synchronized, shareable, and encrypted."
odrive.com
Neat - A Lightweight and flexible Sass grid
Neat is a library of pure Sass mixins and functions that are designed to make creating dynamic and engaging layouts absolutely effortless.
bourbon.io
ProseMirror
A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the we.
With Craft 3 moving rich text editor choices into being separate plugin installs, maybe we'll see this in Craft 3 before too long.
prosemirror.net
Mobiledoc Kit Demo
"Mobiledoc is a publishing solution for authoring, saving and rendering rich WYSIWYG content."
Another option for rich-text editors on the web.
github.io
crontab.guru - the cron schedule expression editor
Very helpful in understanding your cron job schedule.
crontab.guru
Automate Your Development Workflow With GulpJS
"In this tutorial, I'll introduce you to GulpJS and show you how to set it up in your application for task automation."
auth0.com
Front-End Checklist
The perfect Front-End Checklist for modern websites and meticulous developers.
frontendchecklist.com