Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft 3, Craft 3, and Craft 3. Plus news, tips, plugins and more.

Craft 3 is here! It's no surprise that means a newsletter full of Craft 3 goodies. Have a link suggestion for a future issue? Submit one here.

Thanks to Solspace for sponsoring this issue. Their power-tool plugins Freeform 2 and Calendar 2 are available for Craft 3.

Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3.0.2 released

There have been a few Craft 3 releases since launch already. Fixes, changes, additions.

Craft CMS 2.6.3014 & 2.6.3015 released

What’s changed in Craft 2? The Personal edition has been renamed “Solo” (to match what's available in Craft 3) plus an assortment of fixes.

Survey results on "How Craft teams work".

Details on how your fellow devs work on Craft. For example, the average number of Craft sites a dev manages is 13 ½. Those ½ sites are the ones that cause the most trouble.

Craft CMS Installer Art on Behance

Check out the art from Paul Burton, the illustrator behind the beautiful graphics you see every time you install Craft.

Featured Sponsor

Freeform 2 Beta now available for Craft 3!

Freeform is the most powerful form building plugin on the market for Craft. The intuitive live preview field layout editor gives you full control to create simple or complex multi-column and multi-page forms. It also includes flexible email notification options, powerful and flexible templating, and has options for several API integrations.

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

How to build a content builder in Craft CMS

Alex Carpenter shows how to build a great authoring experience using Craft CMS's matrix field type.

Downloading Previous Craft Versions

You’ve got Craft 3. But what if you need an old version? Here you go.

Tilde and caret version constraints in Composer

Have you had a plugin report an available update but composer update doesn't actually update it? You might need to check the constraints your composer.json file.

Automatic migrations tip

Craft CMS 3 tip: tired of racing to the AdminCP to update the database after your super awesome atomic deployments run? Don't! Run migrations from your deploy script via the CLI with: ./craft migrate/all

PhpStorm auto-complete tip

PhpStorm can auto-complete your custom entry field handles, too! Just enable the Symfony plugin & then add this to the top of your templates:

{# @var entry \craft\elements\Entry #}

Related Entry in URL Format with Craft CMS Channel

Sean Smith on how to set the url format of a Craft Channel to use an Entries field.

How to get the order number of the current entry in a structure

Profiling your Website with Craft CMS 3's Debug Toolbar

Andrew Welch continues his quest. 🍺 This time he fills us in on the new Craft 3 Debug Toolbar.

Check if a plugin is installed or enabled via Twig Extensions

Manipulating Craft's ElementCriteriaModel objects with Twig

Using Twig to manipulate Craft's ElementCriteriaModel objects makes for leaner and meaner templates. Relatively complex functionalities can also be built pretty easily.

The Front-End Checklist

The Front-End Checklist Application is perfect for modern websites and meticulous developers.

How to set up multi-env in Craft 3 with .env files

Stack Exchange / Craft 3 / Slack pro tip

Pro tip for using Stack Exchange: If you tag your Stack Exchange posts with craft3, they’ll get pumped into #craft3-help channel in the Craft Slack group.

Frontend VScode Extension Pack

Handpicked collection of VScode extensions for frontend development.

Perfecting your technique

What’s the right way to add a custom event in Craft 3?

Several weeks ago, creating custom events in Craft 3 plugins was discussed. P&T’s Mailer.php was referenced as an example. Here are the basics of what you’d do.

1. Create an Event events/YourEvent

2. Create an instance of that event in your code

$event = new YourEvent([ 'entry' => $entry ]);

3. Trigger the event: $this->trigger(SomeClass::EVENT_CONSTANT, $event);

Logging Craft 3 plugins a separate *.log file

Craft Vue

All the power of a Vue's webpack template & single file components tailored for a Craft CMS project.

Craft Plugin Commands: Manage Craft plugins from the cli

Manage Craft plugins from the command line with this Yii Module.

How to prevent CSRF tokens from being cached

Clearleft's Living Component Library

Now, a pattern library in itself is a lovely thing. However, we know that its true power lies in being directly integrated into the system for which it is intended. In our case the CMS, Craft. And we have done just that.

Sponsor

Calendar 2 Beta now available for Craft 3!

Calendar is the most powerful event management and calendaring plugin on the market for Craft. The intuitive interface allows you to create events with complex recurring event rules and exclusions, while the flexible templating offers a variety of options to satisfy your calendaring needs.

Plugged In

Craft Asset Rev, now for Craft 3

A Twig extension for CraftCMS that helps you cache-bust your assets using configurable strategies.

Smartdown for Craft

Bringing the unbridled joy of Markdown Extra and Smartypants to your Craft websites.

Many to Many Field Type plugin for Craft 3

A Field Type plugin for CraftCMS that allows the management of relationships from both sides.

Redactor Tweaks

A small Craft CMS that provides some tweaks to the default Redactor II Rich Text fieldtype.

Craft Amazon SES

Amazon SES mailer adapter for Craft CMS.

Craft Gatekeeper

Protect your Craft CMS website from access with a universal password.

Craft Twig Profiler

Twig Profiler allows you to profile sections of your Twig templates and see the resulting timings in the Yii2 Debug Toolbar.

Password Policy plugin for Craft CMS 3

Enforce a password policy on your Craft CMS users. Set a requirement of minimum length, force the use of at least 1 number, different cases and more.

SAML Service Provider (SP) Plugin for CraftCMS

Flipbox has released their SSO, aka "single-sign-on", plugin for Craft 3. It's now in public beta, as mentioned on their blog. You might also want to check out their page on how to configure it.

Craft Sequential Edit

This plugin lets you edit multiple elements (entries, assets, categories ...) in sequence, without being sent back to the index page each time you save your changes.

Need to create some plugin licenses?

This link is for Craft plugin developers only. If you need to generate a license key for a paid Craft 3 plugin, this is the API for doing that. What else can you do?

Craft Order Notes

Order Notes plugin for Craft CMS 3.x.

Contact form templates

Custom email templates for the Craft CMS Contact Form plugin.

Craft Sidebar Themes

Customize the look of the CP sidebar.

Yii, Twig, PHP & More

Typecasting using Twig-filters

If you want fields (variables) to be converted to a certain type value (for instance to calculate with a decimal number that came in as a string) you can "cast" the value using filters.

Overheard

Craft Link List on Product Hunt

Friend of the newsletter, Jalen Davenport, put Craft Link List on Product Hunt. (Thank you from me, myself and I.)

58 vs 3

Community

Quicker

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Nuances of “Free”

With the release of Craft 3 there has been a lot of discussion on pricing in the Slack group. How much should Craft cost? How much should a plugin cost? This article was posted as part of the discussion regarding what the price of “free” does for the “purchase” of a product.