Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

DotAll 2018 Videos, Craft 3.1 news, plugins, tips and more Craft CMS treats

An eye-popping 20 videos from DotAll 2018 kick off this issue. Those alone are enough to fill your November, but that's just the kick off. We've got Craft 2 and 3 updates, peaks at Craft 3.1, plugins and more.

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Spoon takes Craft's powerful Matrix field and adds loads of visual customizations for your users while never messing with the actual data.

Let's hit the links!

-John Morton

News

Craft 3.029 released

In 3.0.28, you can now create Structure sections with entry propagation disabled. Also, as of 3.0.29, URL fields now have “Placeholder Text” settings. Of course there's more than that. Check the changelog for the details.

Craft 2.7.3 released

Single sections’ entry types’ handles are now updated to match their section’s handle whenever the section is saved.

Environment Variables to be more powerful in Craft 3.1

Craft 3.1 development is humming along. It will allow "using environment variables in a ton of Control Panel settings—complete with autosuggestions". Want more? How about "template path autosuggestions" too.

The Mystery of Presenting at Tech Conferences Revealed

Ben Croker shared thoughts on making tech talks after his DotAll 2018 appearance.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Database backups in Craft 3 with MAMP

MAMP users have a place in the Craft docs just for them.

Easy Responsive Background Images in Craft and WordPress

Where can I download previous versions of Craft?

SEO tip regarding AJAX loading

Another Craft tip from Andrew.

Perfecting your technique

Processing Form Fields added to “Getting Started with Craft Plugin Development” course

Ben keeps adding to his course on plugin development at CraftQuest. The course is free when you sign up for a free account, so if you've got an idea for a plugin, this is a perfect to help you get it built. (Did I mention it’s free?)

Craft Campaign

In this 15 min audio clip on the Craft Campaign site, Philip Thygesen of Boomy shares his experience moving a jobs website from Wordpress and Mailchimp to Craft and Campaign.

Hardening Craft CMS Permissions

Andrew has updated this post for Craft 3.

Getting started with Craft 3.1’s project config

Cache busting your assets

Cruftless Craft on how to automate the cache busting process within both Webpack and Gulp.

Advanced Element Queries in Craft

CraftQuest: Learn how to use Advanced Element Queries in Craft to customize a query and, perhaps, improve performance.

An Annotated webpack 4 Config for Frontend Web Dev

Andrew, 🍺

Vijay Sitaram of Wipertech Talks Craft Commerce and Customer Retention

Listen as Vijay gives some excellent advice on taking care of customers in the digital age, and find out why he made the decision to move the Wipertech site from Magento over to Craft Commerce.

devMode.fm // devMode Roundtable Discussion #1

The devMode crew talks about Craft CMS standing up to a massive soccer mom DDoS, Expression Engine going open source, and migrating projects from older CMSs to new ones.

Setting up Craft CMS 3 on Nanobox

"In this tutorial, we’re going to set you up on Nanobox (an epic SaaS solution for dev-ops) which makes handling CraftCMS oh so much easier."

Sponsor

Spoon - enhance your Matrix fields with groups, tabs and more!

Use Spoon to group Matrix blocks, hide blocks and / or fields, and organise your block layouts with tabs. Spoon lets you have different configurations for different contexts - you could have one Matrix field for all your block types, then choose which sections they appear in.

Spoon even works with Super Table so you can get super inception-y with a Matrix > Super Table > Matrix combo and tightly control the UI as much as you need.

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Plugged In

Craft Print Labels

The Print Labels plugin lets you easily print shipping labels with a DYMO label printer with just one click.

Craft Reorder

Easy reordering of previous Craft Commerce user orders.

QARR Craft CMS Guest Reviews

QARR allows customers to share their opinion about a product or ask questions.

Craft Collapse CP Nav

Alex Aguilar has released this Craft 3 plugin to hide the AdminCP’s left pane navigation & free up more screen real estate.

HTML Cache for Craft 3

This plugin generates static HTML files from your dynamic Craft CMS project. After a HTML file is generated, your webserver will serve that file instead of processing heavier and slower PHP scripts.

Neo for Craft 3

A Matrix-like field type for Craft CMS 3 that uses existing fields.

The Craft Advantage

How Craft Commerce Makes ImageScience.com.au Possible with Jeremy Daalder

Expertise-Based Ecommerce with Jeremy Daalder of Image Science on Commerce Minded

Overheard

Nice things

Craft fields to get reworked in 3.2

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GitHub Actions

Github is adding actions.

Powerful workflows to supercharge your repos. Workflows can be triggered by GitHub platform events (i.e. push, issue, release) and can run a sequence of serial or parallel actions in response.

I never understood JavaScript closures

Good article! The takeaway is that closures carry a backpack of values. That will make more sense after you read the post.