Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Craft Revue, Releases & Robust Queues

Welcome to another issue of Craft Link List. Craft CMS links, news, and plugins await.

Highlights include revenue numbers for Craft plugin sales, Craft CMS 3 and Craft Commerce have updates, and Andrew Welch is back making us all better developers with 2 new articles + some shared source code. There are also plenty of tips, plugins and more.

This issue has 28 links in total. That's a lot of links for a typical link newsletter, but fewer than average for CLL. Got a link to share? Submit a link to the newsletter.

Next month's Dot All conference should make upcoming issues burst at the virtual seams. Speaking of which...

Thank you to this issue's sponsors.

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Freeform from Solspace is the go-to form-building plugin for Craft CMS. It includes a whopping 17 API integrations.

Thank you to Jalen Davenport for help with this issue.

Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

Craft 3.2.10

Craft 3.2.9 included some Control Panel UI enhancements and stability & security improvements. Craft 3.2.10 added a new javascript function Craft.startsWith(), which you can read about in the docs. For the full rundown, read the changelog.

Craft Commerce 2.1.11

2.1.11 includes a change in how customer carts are merged.

Straight Up Craft + Craft Cookbook

As this issue wrapped up, Ben Parizek announced on Discord that Straight Up Craft is adopting the Craft Cookbook site. Plans are afoot for new educational resources for the Craft community.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

What is the best way to exclude an array of entries?

There are several options described in this post, including using the without filter.

Pagination with the Element API

Jake Dohm shares a tip on Twitter on setting elementsPerPage as a query string parameter, making it easy to paginate your API calls to Craft’s Element API.

Luke Peters on developing Hampton Yachts

Luke Peters has written a post on the development of the multi-site capability of Craft CMS for Hampton Yachts.

From a technical perspective, we decided to build a complex Craft CMS multi-site. One website would be for the factory and one would be for the dealerships, with sub-sections for each specific dealer.

SSL on LocalHost with MAMP Pro for Windows

Sean Smith has a post on how to get MAMP working with an SSL certificate using mkcert.

Perfecting your technique

Robust queue job handling in Craft CMS ⭐️

Andrew wants to help you avoid stalled or failed queue jobs.

Headless Preview in Craft CMS ⭐️

Andrew's back. Craft CMS 3.2 introduced headless content preview. Here’s an exploration of how it works, and how you can implement it.

SKUs Galore: Eric Marthinsen and Tracey Corbitt

Tune in to learn why Craft Commerce was the right choice for Rochester’s site build with Eric Marthinsen of Built and Tracey Corbitt of Rochester Electronic.

They discuss sales and digital marketing from a technical perspective, and what to watch out for when rebuilding, re-platforming, or building a fresh site.

Website for the devMode.fm podcast

Want to see behind the scenes of a Craft CMS / Vue site written by Andrew? You can now check out the source code for devmode.fm.

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Plugged In

Symlinked Entries

The concept of symlinks, transported to Craft CMS.

AWS serverless image handler

A Craft CMS plugin to generate image URLs from your twig templates via an AWS serverless image handler. Automatically detects client webp support.

{% set settings = {
    width: 2600,
    height: 450
} %}

{{ craft.awsserverlessimagehandler.getImgUrl(entry.slider.one(), settings) }}

Cart Notices

Show deals, offers, and messages to a user based on what the customer has in their cart or their referrer.

Craft Static

Provides the ability to save rendered output as html files on the fly.

Servd Asset Storage

Use this plugin to make use of Servd's built-in asset storage service and integrate deeply with additional Servd functionality.

Overheard

Praise

Some words of praise for Craft. (You must be a member of the Craft Discord community to view this link. )

It’s not Craft, but it’s interesting.

Do you have a secret?

A recent discussion on Discord surfaced some helpful links. The question was about how to securely send passwords to clients. You have options.

Native lazy-loading for the web

The laziest way to lazyload images is now built into Chrome.

Best Practice Patterns for Tailwind ⭐️

If you’re using Tailwind you’ll want to see this. Adam Wathan, the guy who created Tailwind, shows tips on how he uses it himself.

MJML turns 2 and levels up with a new version: MJML v4

The Real Dark Web

It's not so much that we need cheers to validate our work; it's merely recognizing that not everything has to be on the bleeding edge of technology. There's something to be said about "simple and boring" projects.

Vue.js 3: Future-Oriented Programming

The State of Fluid Web Typography

Fluid typography gives us so many opportunities to better design the reading experiences on the web but, at the same time, it introduces problems of font sizes scaling uncontrollably and potential accessibility issues.

Paletton - The Color Scheme Designer

Colors rule.

GitHub stars won’t pay your rent

In a previous issue, there was a link to Sizy, the web browser that will display many web views of your pages at once as you work on them. This article from the creator discusses why after several years as an open source project, he took it commercial to keep the project alive.

Conclusion Solve your own problem Show your solution to other people as soon as possible Package it and distribute it as soon as possible (note to self) Don’t be scared, ashamed, or discouraged to make it paid Don’t let anyone tell you how much you should charge for your work