Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

A bonanza of Craft CMS tips, plugins and news

Hello Crafters. Welcome to another issue filled with tips, plugins, and general web dev know-how.

In putting this issue together I was impressed by how many tips there were. As always, these are not from me. These links are the result of the Craft community asking questions and sharing knowledge. Bravo.

Thank you to CraftQuest for sponsoring this issue. There's good stuff going on over there. Check it out.

We've got a lot to cover.

Let’s hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft CMS 3: Loads of new content added

The Craft team has been spending time updating the Craft CMS docs. Good docs mean a better experience building on the platform. Here's the new areas to check out:

Craft 3.0.15 released

Among the list of updates, version 3.0.15 makes the control panel fit a bit snugger on small screens.

Featured Sponsor

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Craft 3 Class Reference: activateAccountSuccessPath

There was recently a question in Slack about customizing what a user sees after activating a Craft account successfully. For that there is a config setting for that called activateAccountSuccessPath. While you’re there in the docs, check out setPasswordSuccessPath too.

Dates in Twig and Craft on CraftQuest

CraftQuest (featured sponsor of this issue of Craft Link List) has started a new series on dates. No swiping right or left required.

How to retrieve the content of a HTTP header in a Twig template

It's not all in your head.

How to make images bigger for users in the control panel

CMS Upgrades & Migrations, Part 2

CTRL+CLICK CAST takes on “the technical planning, gotchas and QA of CMS upgrades.”

How To Get Started With SEO In Craft CMS

How to display all fields belonging to current entry

Barrel Strength: PhpStorm Live Templates Twig Extended

An extensive library of PhpStorm Live Templates for Twig.

If this is a topic you’re interested in, also check out PhpStorm Live Templates for Craft CMS mentioned back in issue 18.

AJAX template tip for SEO

In this short conversation on Twitter, be sure to check out the followup Q&A as well regarding how this method impacts static caching and how to deal with it.

How to link to previous/next entries in a section

devMode.fm // Going Offline: Service Workers with Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith, author Going Offline, is this episode's guest. (This is a great book, btw.)

How to send email from Craft 3 custom plugin

Debug Tool in Craft 3: Here’s all you need to know about it

How to create clean URLs for category strings

Learn Laravel Forge

Perfecting your technique

Responsive tables in Craft

Tables today are still a powerful tool for displaying data in a nice and orderly fashion. In this post we’ll make a twig component for Craft CMS that makes working with responsive tables a breeze.

Instantly understand your webpack 4+ build tIme

RE: dns-prefetch & preconnect

Sponsor

Pic Puller: The Instagram plugin for Craft CMS 2 & 3

Pic Puller brings your Instagram media into Craft CMS with one-click authorization. Full documentation and code samples get you up and running quickly. Learn more at picpuller.com or find it in the plugin store in your Craft 3 control panel.

Plugged In

Craft 3 Navigate by Studio Espresso

A navigation plugin for Craft 3.

Navigation for Craft 3 by Verbb

A Craft CMS plugin to create navigation menus for your site.

md5 Twig Filter

A simple plugin to add an MD5 filter to twig

Craft 3 Var Dumper

This is a simple wrapper which replaces the Craft {{ dump() }} method with Symfony's VarDumper component.

There are a few other options you may also want to check out:

Craft Dumper - callable by variable for Twig filter
Craft 3 Dumper - with d and dd.

Cookie Consent Banner

Add a configurable cookie consent banner to the website.

Stripe Webhooks

Handle Stripe webhooks in a CraftCMS application.

Do It Yourself widget for Craft CMS - updated for Craft 3

A super easy way to create dashboard widgets for the Control Panel, now for Craft 3.

Spoon: Enhance your Matrix

Use Spoon to group Matrix blocks, hide blocks and / or fields, and organize your block layouts with tabs. Spoon never touches your content, it is simply a layer on top of the core Matrix field type, so if you ever don’t want it you can just take the blue pill and uninstall it.

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