Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft 3.1, Dot One, coding tips, plugins and more.

Welcome to another collection of Craft news and links. Every issue starts as a blank slate, and the Craft community comes through every time. Thanks to those of you who wrote the posts and shared their knowledge.

We’ve got the new Craft 3.1 beta, Craft 3 stable channel updates, the introduction of the Craft partner network, plus loads of tips and plugins. If you live down under, you’ve got Dot One to look forward to as well.

Thank you to Solspace for sponsoring this issue. Twitter tells me there is a big update to Freeform 2.5. Got form needs on your site? Give Freeform a spin.

Let’s hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Dot One Australia in 2019

Australia Craft devs, rejoice! Dot One Australia in Melbourne is coming your way on February 5, 2019.

Introducing the Craft Partner Network

Craft now has an official Partner Network. Check out the Craft Partners Overview for full details.

Craft 3.0.32 and 3.0.33 released

Craft 3.0.33 has one change that caught my eye. "The default allowedFileExtensions config setting value now includes webp." If that interests you too, look for the Why and how to use WebP images today link below in the It's not Craft but it's interesting section.

Craft 2.7.4 released

Craft 2.74 fixed a potential PHP error when calling CategoriesService::getAllGroupIds().

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Using Project Config in Craft

Excited about learning how to use Project Configs in the new Craft 3.1 beta? CraftQuest already has a video to help you out. You can watch it with a free account.

The Craft {% cache %} Tag In-Depth

Andrew has updated his post on the cache tag for Craft 3.

{% cache %} Thanks, Andrew. {% endcache %}

Locked out of your site?

If you’re locked out of your site but have access to MySQL, you can still get back in with this tip.

How can I link to an Asset from the Rich Text editor in the Craft control panel?

ngrok

ngrok provides “secure introspectable tunnels to localhost”. Or, in words that I understand, it creates public URLs for testing on mobile devices.

Perfecting your technique

Challenge #2 – 5 Minute Read Solutions

This edition of the Craft Coding Challenge tested participants’ Twig skills to create a macro calculating the approximate reading time of an article. The post includes solutions.

Challenge #3 – The First Draft, including solutions

Craft Coding Challenge #3 was to create "a module that listens for the EntryRevisions::EVENT_AFTER_SAVE_DRAFT event". The challenge has ended and the solution is now open to all.

Static File Caching with Craft CMS 3, aka The Best Of Both Worlds

Ben Croker, the creator of the Craft Coding Challenge, goes into detail in this post about static file caching and the new Blitz plugin, mentioned below in the plugged in section.

A happier “Happy Lager” Craft CMS demo site showing modular template architecture.

Following up on his presentation “Architecting a Content Website” at DotAll 2018, Souvik Das Gupta forked the official Happy Lager Craft Demo site to follow a modular template architecture.

Element-API migration and passing through related categories

MAMP Pro to DDEV (with Craft specific examples)

"DDEV isn’t perfect, but it’s been a welcome MAMP replacement and I’m going to try and convince you to try it."

Website CMS User Manual for End Users

Sean Smith discusses making his clients' lives easier with Craft user manuals created for end users.

Let’s Chat GDPR and Abandoned Carts with Pete Eveleigh of Moresoda

devMode.fm // Leveraging Laravel for Truly Custom Projects

"We discuss when a CMS like Craft makes sense, and when it makes sense to utilize Laravel in addition to or instead of a CMS."

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Pic Puller: The Instagram plugin for Craft CMS

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 Publisher

Schedule publish dates for drafts and forget about the cache busting headaches.

Imager Pretransform plugin for Craft CMS 3.x

Pretransform any Asset on save, with Imager.

Catch PDF Export for Craft Commerce 2

Mass export PDF invoices in one go.

PDF transform

Transform a PDF page to an image (JPEG, PNG) with this Craft 3 plugin.

Craft Sheets to Tables plugin

This plugin provides a Twig function to convert Spreadsheets into HTML tables.

Blitz

The Blitz plugin provides intelligent static file caching for creating lightning-fast sites with Craft CMS.

Published Event for Craft 3

This plugin triggers an event for entries when they are published or expire in the future.

oEmbed

This simple plugin allows you to extract media information from websites, like YouTube videos, Twitter statuses or blog articles.

Wishlist

This new plugin from Verbb allows users to create lists for any element, for example, a favorites list for entries, or a wishlist for products.

Cloner

A Craft CMS plugin to easily clone entry sections and entry types.

Craft iCalendar:

Ensures that text conforms to the RFC 2445 iCalendar specification.

The Craft Advantage

An Event Apart moves from ExpressionEngine to Craft CMS

The blog A List Apart may be moving over to Wordpress, but their sister site, An Event Apart, has just moved to Craft.

Why We Use Craft CMS / Cosmic

Craft vs. WordPress: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Data

Ask DN: Wordpress vs. Craft CMS

Overheard

Brandon Kelly on Craft 4 licensing ideas

In the past few weeks, ExpressionEngine has gone open source. That change has created some discussion on licensing in the Craft community as well. Brandon weighed in on Twitter on the topic.