Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

Dot All videos, a birthday, Craft tips, plugins, pets and more.

Hello, fellow Crafters. Welcome to another issue of Craft Link List. What do we have in store?

Videos from Dot All? Check! Tips? Check. Plugins? Check. Another issue is in the bag.

Want more?

Craft Discord got a #pets channel under the off-topic section. This channel is one of the highlights of the internet right now. I can't link to a channel in Discord, but log in and look for the dogs, cats, and snakes. 🐕 🐈 🐍

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News

Craft 3.3.14 released

There have been five releases of Craft CMS since the last issue. GraphQL continues to see refinements, including Graph QL query caching ,which arrived in 3.3.12.

Commerce 2.2 Released | Craft CMS

Commerce 2.2 is here and includes enhancements to.estimated shipping & tax costs, subscriptions, and more.

Introduction to Craft Commerce 2.2

To introduce Craft Commerce 2.2, the Craft team did an introductory webinar. You can watch it here.

November 13, 2012 is Craft’s birthday

According to the official changelog, Craft CMS has a birthday coming up. Seven years old!?! Our little CMS is growing up so quickly.

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Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Using Conditionals in Title Format

Sean had an interesting question about creating a dynamic Title for an entry.

“I'm using these fields [firstName, middleName, and lastName] to generate the Title of the channel entry. However, I would like to add a conditional around middleName so that if it isn't used and is empty, I can avoid having a double-space between first and last name.”

Daryl shared an answer on Stack Exchange.

Make first & last name required for Craft CMS users

Another first name / last name Craft tip? I’m not sure this is related to the previous link, but it’s spooky. (Yes, that’s a bad attempt at a Halloween reference. It’s over now. Let’s move on.)

Craft static message translations in Twig templates

Piotr Pogorzelski has a couple of tips for us this issue. The first is on using the built-in Craft static message translations in your templates.

Blitz & recreating image transforms

Piotr also pointed out in a Tweet that Blitz can be used to recreate your image transforms. Be sure to read the thread of this Tweet to learn how to turn on this feature and POVs doing this on your site.

Troubleshooting Email Errors in Craft CMS

Have you ever had trouble getting mail sent in Craft? There’s an official guide to help with the issue.

Craft 3 plugins for author experience

Katie Fritz has curated a list of Craft plugins to check out to tweak the authoring experience for your users.

How Laravel Valet Works Exactly

Valet is a popular option for local development in Craft. This article gives some details on how it works.

Creating a Simple Job Board in Craft CMS

Sean Smith, aka Caffeine Creations, created a guide on creating a simple job board for a medium-to-large-sized company with realtime keyword filtering.

Looking for Garnish help?

Issue 16 included a link to this video. It’s shared again because Ben P pointed out that even though there is no official documentation for the Garnish javascript library used by P&T in the Craft control, Brandon discusses how it works in this video.

How to clear caches on deployment in Craft CMS

Andrew shares a tip on customizing your composer.json to clear all of your caches on composer update or composer install. The tip applies to Craft 3.0.37 or later.

Perfecting your technique

devMode.fm // JAMstack & Serverless with Netlify

The devMode crew discusses "what exactly Netlify is, and how you can leverage the Edge, Build, and Dev aspect of it to make your development process more enjoyable" plus the "challenges of maintaining Author Experience (AX) in the age of static site generators, using Live Preview functions in a CMS or service to help out."

Using Tailwind CSS with Gatsby, React & Emotion Styled Components

Learn how to use the utility-first Tailwind CSS with Emotion “CSS-in-JS” Styled Components in a Gatsby JS + React project.

Challenge #8 – The Big O Problem

The Craft Coding Challenge is back! Can you crack the Big O Problem and keep your database queries in check?

Is there a way to reduce the search index?

Uninstall option is missing for disabled plugins

Ben Croker asked about uninstalling disabled plugins recently from the control panel. Is it a bug? No, it’s intentional. As the issue link above says, Craft intentionally does not run code from disabled plugins. ~~Disabling~~ Uninstalling a plugin would execute some of that plugin’s code since plugins are responsible for the database tables they potentially create. (Now we both know.)

Note: This was corrected after publishing.

Craft CMS (Element API plugin) source for Gridsome

This package is under development. The API might change before v1 is released.

Craft CMS 3 local development with Lando Docker

This article explains how to install Craft 3 on macOS Mojave using Lando for the local development environment.

Can I add an enabled-by-default lightswitch field to existing entries?

You can't do this out of the box, but there is a way to accomplish it. Read the post for more details.

Eleventy and Craft

This post discusses using Eleventy, the static site generator, and Craft CMS together.

devMode.fm // Luring Clients away from WordPress ⭐️

In this episode of devMode, the crew discusses “strategies we use to lure clients away from WordPress and talk in-depth about what works, and what doesn’t work.”

Business Logic module template for Craft CMS

Need a quick visual to understand how a Craft module works? Lindsey shared this diagram that illustrates how it all fits together.

How to determine source of Elements save event

Mention of this link prompted an addition to the Craft documentation with an example in the EVENT_AFTER_SAVE section.

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Kick-off static deployments from Craft CMS only when you need them.

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