Craft is a powerful, easy-to-use content management system. The only CMS on the market with a focus on performance and usability.
A short tutorial showing how to add a soft limit on characters for a Craft CMS text field. We use a module to achieve this functionally without using a plugin. A module is a great way to include website/client-centric logic in Craft CMS.
Dot All is the official conference for Craft CMS brought to us by Pixel & Tonic. It’s a three-day event, and it came to Brooklyn, New York, this year.
Recently I got the opportunity to speak at Dot All 2022 in Brooklyn, New York. This is a conference put on by Pixel & Tonic, the creators of Craft CMS. In the talk I gave, I felt I got a good response. I figured it may be too low-brow for the room, but it was good simple advice and tips, which attendees seemed to respond to.
Tutorial for using Prism syntax highlighting on your code blocks in Craft CMS. Very simple setup for assigning languages to code used in entries and displaying them as coloured syntax on your website.
With Craft 5 entering the beta phase, Verbb has provided an update on the status of their plugins. A notable revelation is the discontinuation of SuperTable, as Craft 5 introduces nested Matrix fields, rendering it obsolete. To learn more about Verbb's Craft 5 updates, check out the details on their website.
In this recent episode from craftentries.io, Thomas Sausen is joined by Shawna O'Neal to delve into the recent price hike of Craft CMS and its potential impact on businesses. The conversation explores the feasibility of introducing a more affordable option akin to Craft CMS Light and draws parallels with the Craft Client.
The Craft Coding Challenge has been revived with a new challenge. The Limbo World Championships has called you in to optimise their scoreboard for performance. Find out more here.
The free Shopify plugin from Pixel & Tonic synchronizes products into Craft as elements so you can use them just like entries—in the control panel and your front end. This integration should open many doors to potential Ecommece clients for whom Craft Commerce wasn't a good fit. Read more here.
This is super helpful when doing all your updates in Craft CMS in via composer. The composer plugin prestissimo, downloads packages in parallel to speed up the installation process. To install use a global require.
composer global require hirak/prestissimo
Pixel & Tonic release Craft CMS 3.5 RC1. Very exciting. Highlights include New Field Layout Designer and custom UI elements based on site templates. Full 3.5 changelog
A useful collection of twig tips & tricks from {{craftSnippets}} that will help you with creating better Twig templates. Recently Updated.
From Ben Croker, Sprig is a free plugin for Craft CMS that allows you to create reactive components from Twig templates and/or PHP classes. These components can re-render themselves on user-triggered events (clicks, changes to input fields, form submissions) using AJAX requests, without requiring you to write a single line of JavaScript.
Ryan Irelan and Andrew Welch are doing a livestream tomorrow and covering their favorite localhosting tools. They're looking at Nitro, Valet, Docker, and more. They also promise to share strong opinions about which to use and why.
A 2 part Podcast from Mitchell at Solspace talking to the team at propublica.org and how they deal with large volumes of traffic on their Craft CMS website. Listen to parts one and two.
Nitro is a speedy new local development environment that’s tuned for Craft CMS, powered by Multipass.
Today Pixel & Tonic released Nitro 1.0 Beta, which packs a ton of features for local Craft development, including PHP 7.4, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Xdebug, and Blackfire support.