Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Prepping for Dot All, Craft CMS news, tips on the QL, plugins and more.

Dot All is this week so the top story in this issue is the schedule of events. There are many great presentations on the calendar but spending time with the Craft community is going to be the big draw. I hope to see you there!

Additional highlights in this issue include new Craft CMS support plans, a host of GraphQL links, other Craft CMS tips, and plenty of new plugins.

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Let's hit the links.

-John Morton

News

New Support Plans | Craft CMS

We’re thrilled with Craft’s continued growth, and we want to ensure that developers, agencies, and businesses continue to find success with it. That’s why today we’re excited to launch two new developer support plans: Pro Support and Premium Support.

This as a sign of a healthy Craft ecosystem. When you're making the case to a client for Craft, this is another reason for them to trust the platform.

Craft CMS 3.3.3 released

There have been two releases of Craft since the previous issue. As you might expect, GraphQL support is getting additional refinements. For example, you can now "apply transforms to assets via url field arguments."

Website 101 Podcast: Advice From a Pro at Dot All

Sean and Mike from the Website 101 Podcast will be at Dot All, "asking other professionals to give the one piece of advice they would like all small business owners to know." Keep an eye out for them and remember to enunciate.

Servd | Zero Config Craft CMS hosting

Servd, the new Craft-specific hosting platform sounds intriguing. The promise: "Get all the Craft best practices without needing to configure a single thing."

The Servd beta is now live. If you're interested, sign up.

Craft Commerce 2.1.13 is released

Looks to be a small release, with fixes. Fixes are good.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Andrew on how to learn something.

There's a reason you've thought, "I bet Andrew has a post on that topic."

Quick Start: Gridsome + Craft CMS GraphQL API

Jake Dohm demonstrates how to use the new GraphQL API to integrate with Gridsome.

How to find your Craft ID account details.

Did you know you don't automatically get a Craft ID account just from making a purchase? You need to do that separately.

If you create one with the same email address you've made purchases with, those purchases and license.key files will automatically be tied to your account so you can manage them and the domains they are associated with.

Available template variables in Twig

In Craft Discord, Ben Parizek reminded us of a useful Twig code snippet that will show the variables available to your template. Bookmarked.

{{ dump(_context|keys) }}

Temporarily disable a module in Craft 3

Ben Parizek mentioned another handy tip on how to temporarily disable a custom module.

Open your config/app.php file and comment out your custom module where it is loaded on the bootstrap line.

GraphQL Debug

If you're trying to debug a GraphQL request, Craft's debug toolbar will help. As Brandon mentions in this feature request on Github, look for the X-Debug-Link in the API response. "That will give you a URL... to view a full-page debug toolbar output of the API request."

This tip also gets a mention by David Hahn on the Twitter machine.

Fundamentals of GraphQL

CraftQuest subscribers put this on your to-watch list. (Not a subscriber? Get details here.)

Learn how to get started using GraphQL as an API to distribute content and data from Craft CMS. This course focuses on the fundamentals of GraphQL and how to use it within Craft CMS.

How to provision Google Cloud Storage buckets for Craft CMS 3.x

Mark Croxton shows you how it's done.

Abstrakt's go to Craft CMS Plugins

Jamie Jenkins from Abstrakt shares his top 6.

After years of testing, comparing and trialing, I’ve put together my top 6 Craft CMS plugins that I use for optimum performance and ease of user experience.

Working with SVG images in Craft CMS templates ⭐️

Piotr Pogorzelski on how to load, process, and modify SVG images in Craft CMS templates using a Twig macro.

Working with dates in Craft CMS templates

Piotr Pogorzelski is back with more advice on improving your Craft skills. Learn how dates work in Twig, and improve your templates with "time ago" and "default date format" Twig macros.

How We Roll With Craft CMS: Templates in Twig

Matsuko Friedland discusses "some problems with variables that can arise when using include in Twig."

Composer, why not?

Stefan Bauer reveals the magic of using composer why-not <package> <version> when a specific package can not be installed.

Get IP address without a plugin in Craft

{{ craft.app.request.userIP }}

Why Website Maintenance is Important

Sean Smith reviews why you need to maintain your site.

PYLO docs

Looking for the docs for Put Your Lights On plugins? They’ve got a new home. And a 🐒.

Perfecting your technique

Getting your Craft CMS website ready for production

Thomas Schoffelen discusses the "steps in getting those beautiful websites ready for launch."

Configuring NPM for use with GitHub Package Registry

Issue 88 mentioned the introduction of the GitHub Package Registry. Here's how to configure NPM to use it.

How to save Matrix data programmatically in Craft 3

Deploying a CraftCMS website with Dokku

Mitch Stanely has written a piece on Craft and Dokku. What is Dokku? Mitch says, "Dokku is a small PaaS service powered by Docker that you can run on your own servers."

Strategies For Headless Projects With Structured Content Management Systems

h/t to Andrew for finding this one.

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Plugged In

Email 2FA

Email-based Two-factor authentication plugin for Craft CMS.

Include {{ requireTwoFactorLogin() }} in the template for pages you want to require two-factor authentication. Users will be redirected to the verify page link set in the plugin settings.

GPS tagged entries

This plugin lets you add a coordinates field to your entries. You can place a marker on the (Google) map manually or can search for a business or locations through the Google Place API.

Social GitLab

This plugin integrates GitLab with the Social plugin.

Scout v2

Craft Scout provides a simple solution for adding full-text search to your entries. Scout will automatically keep your search indices in sync with your entries. If you're upgrading from Scout v1, be sure to read the notes on upgrading.