Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

DotSome of DotAll 2018, Craft news, tips, plugins and more.

As I write this from NYC, I see status updates of fellow Craft devs boarding planes leaving Berlin headed back to their homes. DotAll 2018 is a wrap.

If you were unable to attend this years' sold out Craft conference, this issue will give you a glimpse at some of what you missed. We've got slide decks from many of the presentations.

What links can't provide is the opportunity of meeting each other in person and exchanging ideas. The good news is that DotAll will happen again next year in Montreal.

Before diving in, thank you to the sponsors of this issue. Please check them out.

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Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Pluginfactory.io gains collaborators

The next time you use Pluginfactory.io to scaffold out a Craft plugin, you've got even more people helping you. Go team!

Happy Lager demo now runs Craft 3

Happy Lager was how many people were introduced to Craft and it's now running on Craft 3.

Featured Sponsor

SEO Keywords Pro: I need your feedback!

Interested in SEO for your Craft sites? I (@lukestevens) need your feedback! SEO Keywords Pro (in planning) will display your Google Search Console keywords data in the Craft CP. What features do you (yes you!) need? I'd love to get your feedback through this quick questionnaire. <3

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Design Processes and Systems in Craft by Courtney Bradford

Check out Courtney Bradford's DotAll 2018 slides on how to reframe our design approach to be more human-centric and systems-minded.

Prioritizing Author Experience by Katie Fritz

Katie Fritz shared her slides fromDotAll 2018 presentation on making a better authoring experience in Craft. (Tip: when going through the slides, use all 4 arrow keys to navigate, not just left and right.) Based on what I saw on Twitter, she shared many helpful tips, like this one and this one, during the presentation.

Color coding your Craft sites

Katie Fritz, the Craft-tipmeister of the issue, shared this gist on visually differentiating the backend of a multi-site Craft install.

How can I make a template output its own filename?

Put this inside a check for devMode and you're golden.

{% if currentUser and craft.config.devMode %}
<pre>What template is this? "{{ _self }}"</pre>
{% endif %}

Multilingual Sites in Craft 3

Zoltan Varady's slides from DotAll 2018.

Craft CMS Video Course by Alex Carpenter

From installation to launch, everything you need to know to build, launch, and manage a Craft CMS site. Sign up for updates on this project.

Getting Started with Craft Plugin Development

In this WIP CraftQuest mini-course plugin developer Ben Croker walks through some Craft plugin development fundamentals. Learn the steps involved in setting up a basic plugin, how to add a Settings page, and more.

Craft Hosting with Hyperlane

A free course from CraftQuest learn the fundamentals of using Hyperlane to host Craft CMS.

Design Processes and Systems in Craft

Courtney Bradford’s slides on design systems from DotAll 2018.

BundlePhobia: cost of adding a npm package

Find the cost of adding a npm package to your bundle. (Cost, meaning K size and time to download for your end users.)

MicroBadger

What's inside your Docker containers? Inspect labels, layers and other metadata.

Sublime Merge

The new Git client by the makers of Sublime Text.

Craft equivalent to EE snippets for use in templates?

If you're an EE-expat, you may be wondering.

Perfecting your technique

devMode.fm // Craft CMS 3 as an Application Platform

Another devMode podcast on getting more from Craft.

Running Craft as a 12-factor-app on Heroku

Bob Olde Hampsink‘s slides from DotAll 2018.

How to remove a category group via migration in Craft CMS v3

Craft 3.1 will make this even easier, but while you wait, check out this post.

Podcast: Lifestyle-Based Business Goals

Craft Commerce expert Jonathan Melville discusses the impact his personal life has on his business goals, his work on the Barefoot Contessa site, and navigating the tricky issue of ecommerce shipping.

Making a Craft CMS Website That FLIES

Andrew Welch’s DotAll 2018 slides on making Craft sites speedy. He’s knows that of which he speaks.

Scaling Craft CMS Sites for Large Launches

Matt Weinberg shared his DotAll 2018 slides on launching big sites and minding their performance.

Modular Architecture for Building Content Websites

Souvik Das Gupta slides from DotAll 2018 on the OOUX methodology and modularity.

Modern Frontends with Craft CMS, GraphQL, and React

Paulo Elias' slides on Craft + GraphQL + any flavor of reactive view libraries.

Sponsor

Portal - advanced Live Preview tools for Craft CMS 3

Preview your content on tablet & mobile in the device emulator and add additional target templates for users to switch to, all within the primary Live Preview window. Check out the introductory video for a quick overview or try it now in the plugin store.

Plugged In

GeoMate for Craft 3

GeoMate is a friend in need for all things geolocation. IP to geo lookup, automatic redirects (based on country, continent, language, etc), site switcher... You name it.

PDF Crowd for Craft 2.x

This plugin allows you to generate PDFs of your webpages using Pdfcrowd API v2.

CP Style Guide

The CP Style Guide plugin provides a style guide for control panel pages in Craft CMS. It helps you when designing and building your plugin's control panel pages by providing markup and twig template tags for generating native elements and form fields in Craft.

Redactor Custom Styles plugin for Craft CMS

Apply predefined custom styles to selected text in Redactor fields.

Craft Twigpack

Twigpack is a bridge between Twig and webpack, with manifest.json & webpack-dev-server HMR support. Want to see it in action? Check out this short video on YouTube.

Flickr Gallery

The Plugins adds the method call flickrAlbum() to Craft's twig environment.

Craft Colorit

A slick color picker fieldtype plugin for the Craft CMS 3 control panel.

Overheard

Jake Dohm live tweets of State is Craft talk at @DotAllConf

DotAll photos

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Working with Babel 7 and Webpack

Laravel Valet changes incoming, says Matt Stauffer

Laravel Valet will soon have a lot of changes/features. Likely will be 2.1 instead of 2.0.13.

Autofill: What web devs should know, but don’t

Top 6 Reasons to Choose React for Frontend Development

Aspider

An async web scraping micro-framework based on asyncio.

Reduce JavaScript Payloads with Code Splitting

Part of the Web Fundamentals guide from Google.

Five on Design – Podcast by Daniel Nisbet

In five minutes, Five on Design covers a broad range of topics for graphic designers, freelancers and other creative or entrepreneurial types. New episodes are posted every Tuesday and Friday.

Best order for elements in HTML head tags

In the previous issue of CLL, I had a link to a Tweet about the order of head tags. By the time the issue published, the author had removed the Tweet. (Dang you Internet!) Links are ephemeral. I'm pretty sure the final link you'd have been directed to was this post, featuring a reusable snippet to get your head tags in your templates.