Straight Up Craft Dev Day

Straight Up Craft Dev Day's started out from the interest of several community members to learn more about Craft CMS. While Craft can handle some pretty advanced sites already, Craft is still young and lots of features continue to be added so it's hard to plan out a formal curriculum on many topics that might not get dated quickly. Dev Day's have helped fill this gap and are planned as loosly structured conversations. They are a bit rough, and probably address several items that will get improved and changed over time, but they are a good place to start to start exploring what Craft has to offer.


Migrat­ing a web­site with plu­g­ins from Craft 2 to Craft 3

In this hangout, we'll start with a walk through upgrading a simple Craft 2 site to Craft 3. We'll explore how the upgrade process works with plugins that exist in and don't exist yet on Craft 3 and deepen our understanding of how Craft behaves during the upgrade process so we can plan successful migrations. For plugin developers, we'll continue the discussion on how to plan for and test migrations during the upgrade process, including the new Install migration and how to make sure your plugins are ready for PostgreSQL. Read More »

Ben Parizek

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 »

Barrel Strength Design

The {% cache %} tag

Interested in optimizing your website? Let's take a closer look at our mysterious friend the {% cache %} tag. The {% cache %} tag is quite talented, but can be hard to get to know. We'll take a look at what's happening when we use the {% cache %} tag, explore some of the settings, and discuss alternatives to the {% cache %} tag when it comes to keeping zippy. Read More »

Barrel Strength Design

Martini Icon

Level up in Craft CMS with practical examples, snippets, and patterns.
Craft The Planet emails are sent out several times a week.