Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Getting ready for launch.

Happy March. We're getting close to the official release date, April 4, of Craft 3. This issue kicks off with the official new Craft 3 Launch FAQ containing new details on what's happening next month.

This jam-packed issue also features news of multiple releases of Craft 2 & 3, loads of Craft tips and plugins.

Thank you to our sponsors of this issue.

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Also Peers Conference is fast approaching. A little bird told me about a cool GraphQL workshop there this year. Get your ticket.

Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3 RC11, RC12 and RC13 released

RC 11 has big improvement to how you set up multi-site installs plus the multi-site docs are now live. Lots of details in the changelog for RC12 and RC13 too.

Craft CMS 2.6.3010, 2.6.3011 and 2.6.3012 released

Craft 2 is still getting love and attention.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Running Craft CMS 3 on Laravel Valet ⭐️

Jalen Davenport continues from his previous article with more on Laravel Valet and Craft.

Neutrino: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love webpack

This episode of devMode.fm discusses "how Neutrino can make getting up and running using webpack a whole lot easier."

New to Craft? 8 Important Lessons I Learned During My First Projects

Michael Ramuta shares tips he's learned from working with Craft.

Has anyone come up with a solution where matrix blocks can be scheduled and expire?

Find out if a date falls on the weekend with Twig

Craft Guide Templates

Open source CMS guide templates for use in the Guide plugin for Craft CMS.

Tip for heavy queue jobs in Craft ⭐️

If you're using Craft CMS 3 and are running heavy queue jobs for things like image transform generation, template caches, etc. check out @o_stark 's Async Queue plugin to run them in a non-blocking background process.

via Andrew @nystudio107

Analyzing queries in the Yii2 Debug Toolbar

via Andrew @nystudio107

An eager loading tip

via Andrew @nystudio107

Perfecting your technique

Using Content Migrations in Craft 3 ⭐️

Craft content migrations are now a thing in Craft 3. Want to know more? Read the post.

"We can use a migration to make changes to fields on a dev site, and then instead of having to make those same changes manually on the live site."

Building a SaaS app on Craft

Erik Reagan spoke at a Craft meetup in Manchester and these are the notes of that presentation.

Craft Docker by webmenedzser

"You just have to run the setup.sh file and in a couple of minutes (as the image building is quite long) you are ready to start using it."

DRY Templating with Twig and Craft CMS

"If you come to think of it, macros are DRY-heaven. You write a few lines of code, then call the macro as often as you want with different parameters and bits of information whenever it’s needed."

How can I create a zip file containing all assets from an entry gallery?

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Plugged In

Smart Map plugin for Craft CMS ⭐️

Maps for Craft 3 and people who get lost occasionally.

Enupal Translate ⭐️

Translate your website templates and plugins into multiple languages. Bulk translation with Google Translate or Yandex. Now in the Craft 3 plugin store.

Craft Async Queue

Async Queue Handler for Craft 3 by Oliver Stark. This is the plugin mentioned in a tip from Andrew above.

Craft-pjax

Automagically return the headers and container that PJAX expects. (What the what? PJAX = pushState + ajax. Ok.)

Fix-fks

This is a first-party plugin which is a simple Utility plugin for Craft 3 that will restore any missing foreign keys in your database, if they’ve been stripped out by a DB server that doesn’t support FKs. This issue can crop up from time to time on older versions of MySQL.

Craft MailChimp Lists

Create, manage and monitor your MailChimp Lists from within Craft.

Content Stats for Craft 3

See how many entries have been created for channels and structures in your Craft CMS website.

Comments

Verbb has the Craft 2 version live now with a sign up to get notified for the Craft 3 when it launches.

Country Select

Country select field type for Craft 3.

Random Key Generator

Randomly generated keys and passwords.

Delete Entry Versions

Delete Entry Versions plugin for Craft CMS

The Craft Advantage

The Definitive PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 and HHVM Benchmark (2018)

This just published (Feb 27, 2018) article is a "a deep dive into performance benchmarks across various platforms and see how different versions of PHP and HHVM stack up against each other" including a section on Craft CMS v 2.6.3011.

Overheard

In love.

Front End vs. Back End

Learning Git Resources

Getting better at Git was a hot topic on Slack last week. Here are some resources mentioned. git add -A these to your brain and then commit them.

Introduction

Getting ready for launch.

Top Stories

News

Featured Sponsor

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Perfecting your technique

Sponsor

Plugged In

The Craft Advantage

Overheard

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Learning Git Resources