Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Konichiwa Craft

Hello Crafters. Welcome to another dose of Craft CMS links and more. What's in store in this issue? Craft docs get additional supported languages. Craft 2 and 3 have updates and other news. Plus there are more Craft tips and plugins to fill a lazy summer day. 🌞

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News

Craft CMS について

As announced on Twitter, the Craft 3 docs are now available in Japanese.

Craft 3.0.13.2

Craft 3 now includes a summary of the content that will be transferred/deleted in Delete User modals.

Also, in 3.0.12, Craft 3 added a “leaves” element query param that limits the selected elements to just the leaves in the structure (elements without children). The change log has details on the full scope of updates.

Craft CMS 2.6.3019 released

There have been 2 updates to Craft 2 since the previous issue putting a few drops of oil into a already-well-oiled machine. See the change log for details.

Craft 2 Class Reference

Been waiting for the Craft 2 class references being in the new Vue format? Today is your day.

New Craft Hosting Partner: Hyperlane

Hyperlane, a Belgium-based hosting provider, is now an official Craft hosting partner.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

MessageFormat support in Craft 3

In the Craft Discord, one user pointed out what may "not the most glamorous of all the new features in Craft 3, but MessageFormat support makes translatable strings so much more powerful!"

Craft::t('site', "Sorry, there {numErrors, plural, =1{was an issue} other{were # issues}} submitting your enquiry", [
    'numErrors' => count($this->getErrors()),
]);

Fancy.

Tip: Getting direct links to messages in Discord ⭐️

Ryan asked about getting direct links to messages in the Craft Discord group. Just enabled "Developer Mode" in the Appearance section of your user settings and then you'll get the option next to each message. You must be signed into Craft Discord to see the message.

Tips for making a kick awesome blog in Craft CMS

Jonathan Longnecker covers how he's built is blog with Craft in this post, including how he uses Matrix, making friend social media meta tags and plug ins he uses.

Migration of Craft CMS from one host to another

Sometimes you need to switch where your site lives.

Send activation emails to all pending users in Craft

SVG Sprites and Twig Macros in Craft CMS

Sean Smith discusses using gulp tasks to combine SVG files into a single minified file and using macros in Craft to output icons with a single line of code in your templates.

How do you use the Element API plugin to output Matrix blocks for an entry?

MAMP with Composer and MySQL on the Command Line

The perfect local development environment is a debate with many opinions. You can join in on the Slack or Discord group if you're willing.

If you’re in the MAMP camp, you’ll want to check out this new support article from the Craft team.

Tower

Tower 3, billed as "the most powerful Git client for Mac and Windows," was released since the last issue. It looks like a solid update but it has moved to subscription pricing. Sigh.

SmartGit

SmartGit is a Git client with support for GitHub Pull Requests+Comments and SVN. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux. A variety options for purchase are available.

Sourcetree

Free Git GUI for Mac and Windows.

Perfecting your technique

Craft 3 Multi-site with no "default" site

Post-Mortem: LinkedIn Talent Intelligence Experience

Andrew Welch has a write up of an interesting Craft + GraphQL + Vue project.

Enhancing a Craft CMS 3 Website with a Custom Module ⭐️

Parallelize Development Using Git Worktrees

You can "work on two branches from the same git repo at the same time (without cloning the repo). Super handy for when you’re working on your new Craft3 branch, but still need to be making changes to the existing v2 site in the meantime."

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Plugged In

Craft Blitz ⭐️

The Blitz plugin provides intelligent static file caching for creating lightning-fast sites with Craft CMS. It can highly improve a site's performance, reducing time to first byte (TTFB) dramatically.

Schematic Database Migrations - PHP Database Migrations Engine

Although this project is no longer maintained if you’re migrating a database, check out this command line tool for managing and migrating database schemas.

Craft3 JSON Client

The plugin provides a simple Twig extension which allows you to fetch a JSON url and use the result in your Twig template.

Retcon Craft

A collection of powerful Twig filters for modifying HTML.

Craft Dashboard Begone

Removes the dashboard and redirects users to entries.

Froala WYSIWYG

Craft 3 CMS plugin for Froala WYSIWYG HTML Rich Text Editor.

Country Redirect for Craft 3

Easily redirect visitors to a Craft site based on their country of origin.

Craft Plugin UXD

Craft plugin user experience designer.

Field Manager

Ever needed to clone a field - or even a whole field group? You can easily use Field Manager to do both.

JWT Manager

Manage JWTs for users which can be used to login. (What is a JWT?) Check out the git branches for versions for Craft 2 and Craft 3.

DigitalOcean Spaces

This plugin provides an DigitalOcean Spaces integration for Craft CMS.

Craft Imager DO Spaces Driver

Storage driver for Imager that integrates with DigitalOcean's Spaces object storage.

Stripe Payments

Allows customers sign up for recurring and one-time payments with Stripe, perfect for orders, donations, subscriptions, and events. Create simple payment forms in seconds easily without coding.

Overheard

Infected

Relatively complicated

Andrew suggests {{ dump(elementQuery.getRawSql()) }}.

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Using Webpack 2 + HMR in Laravel Development – dotdev

This link was referenced when a person in Slack was trying to set up Hot Module Replacement (i.e. injecting changed CSS into your live page without reloading). It's not a full "Craft CMS" answer and it's also for Webpack 2, not the current version of Webpack, but it might be helpful if you're headed down that path.

LazySizes bgset

Responsive lazy loaded background images? Is that even possible? It doesn't appear to be available with straight CSS, but if you're lazy loading your images via JS, check out this extension of LazySizes. While you're exploring this topic, also check out the object-fit extension that "polyfills object-fit: cover and contain properties".