How do you create site navigation in Craft? From Table and Matrix fields to Structures and nav plugins, in this hangout we'll discuss navigation in its many forms and the tradeoffs between usability, flexibility, development costs, and more. Read More »
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What is the Matrix? Craft's Matrix field is a powerful tool for creating rich content, but it can be used for much more than that. This week we'll take a look at using Matrix fields to manage navigation, forms, and content layouts. We can show you the door. You're the one who has to walk through it. Read More »
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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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In this hangout, we'll take a closer look at Garnish, craft.js, and the many things that javascript does in the Craft Control Panel. From Element indexes to field layouts to modals to charts – while the javascript that helps power Craft is largely undocumented, its a core part of the user experience. Read More »
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What's in a name? That which we call a null-coalescing operator by any other name would smell as sweet. Explore when and how to use the null-coalescing operator; simplify conditionals in your templates. Read More »
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By default, Craft lazy loads elements in your templates. In many cases, this works just fine and no further optimization is needed. However, if your content requires queries to the database to retrieve additional related data, you may want to consider optimizing your queries by eager loading elements. Read More »
Ben Parizek
Explore common techniques for optimizing your templates by writing reusable code. In this hangout, we'll discuss considerations as we use Twig tags like extends, set, block, macro, and more. Read More »
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Improve the performance of your website and optimize your element database queries using eager-loading and the `with` parameter. Eager-loading elements gives you the ability to tell Craft which sub-elements you need up front so Craft can fetch them in advance and you and your clients can smile at the end of each page load. Read More »
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In this hangout, we'll look at various tools and resources to help kick-start plugin development, or just learn more about it. We'll take a closer look at pluginfactory.io and the Business Logic plugin template for Craft CMS. Read More »
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Throughout Craft – from the documentation to template error messages to plugin development – we see references to models. In this hangout will take an everyday look at models and how we interact with them in our Craft templates and code. Read More »
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Dump, die, throw, log. In this hangout, we'll take a look at the various tools we have to help identify and troubleshoot errors in PHP as we design and develop websites and plugins with Craft CMS. We take a look at various simple, dump-driven development techniques and then compare those to debugging in PhpStorm using X-debug. Brad Bell gives a demo on getting X-debug setup in PhpStorm along with several tips to improve your debugging workflow. Read More »
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Is your template throwing errors instead of displaying your content? What do those error messages mean? In this hangout we'll take a look at a few common errors in Twig and various tools we have to help identify and troubleshoot those errors as we design and develop websites with Craft CMS. Read More »
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Join us for the second part of our tour of Craft Commerce with Luke Holder from Pixel & Tonic. We'll take a look at Shipping, Addresses, and more ways to customize Craft Commerce to fit your project needs. Read More »
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Get introduced to Craft Commerce by Luke Holder from Pixel & Tonic. We will look at Carts, Orders, Workflows, and setting up Products. Get confident with the Craft Commerce models and Twig templates. Read More »
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This recording is Part 1 the first introduction to Element Types in Craft CMS given to a small group of Craft developers. The presentation takes place 2 weeks before Peers 2014 where Brandon's course on Element Types attracted a full house and introduced Element Types to a larger audience. Read More »
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