Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

GDPR-compliance, Craft locales, plus a regular dose of tips, plugins and news.

The new GDPR laws go into effect on May 25. Time is slipping by for all sites, Craft CMS or otherwise, to be in compliance. Be sure to check out the top story in this issue for more info. There are plenty of other GDPR links as well.

We’ve been living in the land of Craft 3 for a full month as of May 4. That was a smooth launch, right? That doesn’t happen without a ton of effort so congrats to the Craft team.

Thank you to fortrabbit and nystudio107 for sponsoring this issue.

We’ve got lots to cover. Let’s hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Guide to GDPR Compliance from Solspace

Solspace creator of the Freeform plugin you probably know already has posted a general guide on GDPR. (Solspace is a frequent sponsor of CLL.)

EU Data Protection by Postmark

This is a sample Data Processing Addendum recently referenced in the Slack regarding GDPR. This is from Postmark and is not Craft specific. You may need something like this in the futute. Bookmarked for future reference.

Craft 3.0.4 released

This is the 3rd release since the previous issue. Check the list of changes to see if you’ve had something address that affected you. For example, there was a fix where Craft wasn’t “deleting template caches” as intended. That means I’m not just seeing things. At least in this instance.

Commerce 2.0.0-beta.3

We’re seeing primary bug fixes as Commerce 2 gets closer to being done.

Verbb Plugin Licenses. Craft 2 to Craft 3

Verbb has a migration process in place for previously purchased Craft 2 versions so that you can migrate your licenses to Craft 3.

Pic Puller for Craft 2 user? Get your shiny new Craft 3 license 🔑

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

GDPR - A Practical Guide For Developers ⭐️

Filled with many do’s and don’ts.

Disabling individual sites on a Craft 3 multisite

Brad Bell answers this question about Craft with a non-Craft answer. A simple 503 header redirect will do the trick.

Straight Up Craft: Composer and Craft 3 ⭐️

Brandon Kelly and Ben Parizek talk Composer and Craft 3. It’s about an hour and a half but you’ll learn a lot.

I’d say you should require it into your brain. That’s a joke. Ok... it’s not a good joke.

Create Password Protected Pages in Craft

A 2015 post from Noah Read. Info still looks fresh though.

Customize your Entry views

Andrew shares a tip on making your client’s control panel more customize by using a feature that’s hiding in plain site.

Reset your Craft password with MySQL

Imagine if you set your password with a password manager but didn't save the password and hadn't set up your mail settings yet to let you reset your forgotten password.

But that would never happen.

Combined searches and filters using Craft

How to get entries between 2 points in time in Craft 3.

All about 404 errors, redirects & the homepage

How to persist locale in site navigation

Craft CMS plugin tip: Add missing translations

Craft CMS plugin / PHPStorm tip from Andrew.

Perfecting your technique

How to add "locales", now known as "sites," in Craft 3

Although "sites" in Craft 3 are very similar to Craft 2 for "locales", during the Craft 3 beta, the docs were spare on the topic. The documentation localization in Craft 3 are now live and complete.

How to build a reusable carousel component with Craft CMS

Alex Carpenter posted a screencast sharing how he used embeds to make a carousel on a recent Craft site build.

Security concerns with using Composer Install in production environment

Should you check your vendor directory into your repo or not?

Personally, I don’t, but this is an active topic on Slack. This post from 2014 suggests a reason you might not want to.

Andrew Welch pointed out that “you are vulnerable to the exact same thing [i.e. introducing malicious code into your site] if you do the install locally and commit vendor. The idea that anyone is actually manually auditing every package that gets installed I think is unrealistic.”

Pick your poison. ☠️

CMS Upgrades & Migrations, Part 1

How do you decide whether to upgrade your CMS or if it’s time to consider new software? Do you understand the benefits of one or the other? Check out this episode of CTRL+CLICK CAST.

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Plugged In

Craft Delete Account ⭐️

Allows users to delete their own account within front-end Twig templates. This will help you adhere to the GDPR rules regarding users being able to manage their own data and delete their account.

Craft- Star Ratings

Star Ratings plugin, now for Craft 3.

Campaign Monitor Synch

Synch your Craft members with your Campaign Monitor subscriber lists.

Language Redirector for Craft 3

A Craft CMS 3 plugin to automatically redirect visitors to their preferred language.

Default Dashboard

A Craft CMS plugin to set default dashboard widgets for users.

Migration Manager for Craft CMS 3

Create migrations to easily move settings and content between Craft CMS website installations with the click of a mouse, no coding required. Select which elements to migrate and create a native Craft content migration file that can be committed to your version control system.

Craftnet PHP

A PHP library which implements the functionality of the Craftnet API by Ben at Barrel Strength.

Schematic for Craft 3

Schematic allows you to synchronize your Craft setup over multiple environments. It does this by exporting information about assets, database (fields, sections, users), locales and plugins to a YAML file that can be imported in other environments.

Table Maker

A user-definable table field type, now for Craft 3.

Klaviyo Connect

A plugin to integrate Klaviyo Craft CMS. Grow your ecommerce business with smarter email automations.

Mailgun Events

Track Mailgun events from the utilities section.

Craft CMS 3.x Redirect Manager

Craft 3 redirect plugin provides an easy way to enter and maintain 301 and 302 redirects and 404 pages. The plugin provides a clear user interface for admin and non-admin users.

Element Index Defaults

Element Index Defaults is a Craft CMS plugin the help set useful defaults for your element indexes.

The Craft Advantage

Why Craft 3 Is About To Become The Best Version Ever

This post delves into items that have moved into the Craft 3 "Backlog" of features and speculates on what the future of Craft holds. Always in motion is the future.