Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft CMS takes no holiday

The Craft CMS Slack request page has a bit of news about the health of Craft. The Craft Slack community has now tipped over the 7000 members mark. So much for a lazy end to Summer. (Well, Summer in half of the world at least.)

We've got another issue of tips, plugins and other Craft CMS news in this issue. I see different people gearing up for DotAll later this month as well. It's going to be a busy season.

Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3.0.22 released

Craft 3.0.22 is now the current release, but Craft 3.0.21, also released since the previous issue, added the following worth note:

Most element query parameters can now be set to ['not', 'X', 'Y'], as a shortcut for ['and', 'not X', 'not Y’].

Craft CMS Partners Page

The Craft partners page is live.

Element Queries documentation gets a big update

The documentation for Craft has been getting a lot of attention recently. The Craft team announced the Element Queries have gotten some love now too.

Some Neo news related to Craft 3.

There are many Neo fans out there so this should be some welcome news.

Featured 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.

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Craft CLI setup wizard gets MAMP-specific attention

If MAMP is your favorite flavor for local development, these changes should make your life a bit easier.

Filter expressions in Twig

Andrew giving tips. Always.

Is there a "sticky post" function built into Craft?

Plugin I created is asking for a license key

Call me by your other name.

CraftRemote

Check up on and be notified of all your updates, plugins and licenses on Craft CMS sites.

About “missing” plugins

h/t Ryan Masuga on Twitter

How to claim a plugin license purchased from another email address

Exclude certain entries and its children from navigation

VScode Tailwind CSS

Tailwind CSS class name completion for VS Code.

Craft CMS 3 Plugins — Our favorites

Some from the Craft CMS 2 plugins are gone. Some new plugins come with Craft CMS 3.

F-Bar. Manage your Laravel Forge servers from your menubar

I use this too. There is also an iOS app version.

Teaching Your Clients How to Use The Website You Built Them

CSV to JSON

Online tool to convert your CSV or TSV formatted data to JSON.

Oni - Modern Modal Editing

Another text editor enters the ring.

Perfecting your technique

Plugin Licenses | Craftnet API Documentation

Ever need to generate a license for a plugin you wrote yourself? Check this page in the docs. (Also check out the next entry in the newsletter.)

Craftnet CLI: A CLI for the Craftnet API.

Ever need to generate a license for a plugin you wrote yourself? Now you have a command line interface. That's handy.

Free Continuous Integration for Craft 3

Plugged In

Comments Plugin now available for Craft 3

Take control over comments for your site, by having them sit alongside your content.

Seeder for Craft 3 from Studio Espresso

Placeholder content made easy.

Patrol for Craft 3

Maintenance Mode and SSL Routing for Craft 3

Entry Relations Manager

Keep track of relations to entries. See which entries are safe to delete, and easily replace entry relations.

Craft Fixtures

This plugin provides all the necessary means to run Craft Elements as Yii2 fixtures.

Craft fortrabbit Object Storage Driver

This is an external storage driver for Imager that uploads your Imager transforms to fortrabbit's object storage. Object Storage is an AWS S3 compatible storage type, so the plugin utilizes the same S3 client as Imager's AWS storage does.

Digital Download plugin for Craft CMS 3

Provide secure digital download links to your files.

Siteswitcher

The plugin formerly known as "Language Link" is now available for Craft 3. What does it do?

This plugin provides an easy way to switch between sites on your website. Regardless of which page you are currently on, you will be linked to the same page in its parallel site.

The Craft Advantage

A Signal in the Static

TJ Fogarty built his site and Craft but decided to move to a static site generator instead. Why am I posting this in the section called "The Craft Advantage" then? It turns out Craft's Element API made the transport of the data between systems a breeze.

Ultimately, there are many options to build things and having the right tool for the job is key. The Element API makes using Craft an option to try even if you ultimately go somewhere else.

Overheard

Some kind of mysterious math

Slack feels some Discord?

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