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Com­pos­er and Craft 3

Craft 3 is available as a composer package and enables developers to manage plugins as composer packages as well. While this is exciting news for some, it's also a source of confusion for many users who don't use composer on a regular basis. In this hangout, we'll talk with Brandon Kelly how they are using composer with Craft and go through several examples of how to manage Craft projects and plugin development workflows using composer as well. Read More »

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Secu­ri­ty Con­cerns in Craft CMS

One of the biggest leaks of all time may have been caused by a vulnerability in a $25 WordPress plugin. This article aims to create awareness and, hopefully, help other developers to be better educated about security issues in Craft and in content management systems in general. Read More »

PutYourLightsOn (Ben Croker)

Craft-Pow­ered Apps

Craft CMS isn't just for websites; it can also be used as a headless CMS. This allows you to take advantage of Craft's flexible control panel to manage content via the web, while making that content available via an API to power apps for mobile and tablet apps. This week we'll be joined by Aaron Berkowitz who has been working with Craft to power multiple apps for PBS KIDS. Read More »

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Bet­ter Build Process­es with Gulp and Craft CMS

This week we'll be looking Gulp, build processes, and how to get started and improve your build processes on a Craft CMS website. We'll start with the basics–for those who are new to build scripts or using Codekit–and then take things to the next level looking at a more advanced setup and additional areas to configure for a powerful Gulp workflow on your Craft CMS site and beyond. Read More »

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Trou­bleshoot­ing Email Errors

Email? <sigh>. Troubleshooting issues when it comes to email can be a tedious task. The problem can be as simple as a misspelling or as complex as several combined issues with configurations across your domain settings, server, or CMS. Today we'll talk through how to approach email troubleshooting and many common issues that cause emails not to send. Read More »

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Cus­tomiz­ing the Craft Con­trol Panel

How do you customize Craft to make it easy to use for clients and admins? In this hangout we'll explore a variety of ways to improve user workflows in the Craft Control Panel. Read More »

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Secu­ri­ty and Craft CMS

What can you do to ensure your Craft install is as secure as possible? What has Craft done? What do plugin developers do? In this hangout will discuss security in Craft and various considerations to keep in mind for managing a secure website. Read More »

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Explor­ing the Craft /​app folder

Our first Straight Up Craft Dev Day is a discussion around the Craft /app folder, how the Craft Control panel can provide you examples for building your own plugins and websites, and various details along the way. Read More »

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Mul­ti-Envi­ron­ment Workflows

The Craft Multi-Environment Config: how it works, how to use it in a team, and several different use cases for when and where it might come in handy. Read More »

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Setting up HTTPS in Cloudflare and Amazon S3 for your Craft CMS site

There's a misconception that adding HTTPS to your site and serving Amazon S3 files from the same domain is difficult. Viget

LAZY LOADING CHANNEL CONTENT IN CRAFT CMS

When used appropriately it’s advantages include cutting down the initial page load time, keeping visitors interested in your content and interacting with your page. Codesion

Why We Use Craft CMS

When building out websites, it’s common to integrate a Content Management System (CMS) to allow for easy editing and updating of content after the site launch. Design by Cosmic

Craft CMS Setup with Gulp, Capistrano and DigitalOcean

The ultimate Craft CMS setup, development, and deployment guide with Gulp, DigitalOcean, and Capistrano. Gumroad

Craft CMS + Mandrill: Reliably Get Those Emails Delivered

Learn to set up Mandrill in Craft CMS in minutes with this screencast. Media Surgery

Tips for Craft CMS Multilingual Websites

I live and work in Belgium, a country with three official languages. Multilingual websites are quite a common sight around here. Here is what I learned along the way after building a few of those using Craft CMS. Jérôme Coupé