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 »

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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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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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Routes and Patterns

A closer look at routing in general, how requests in craft are routed, and setting up your own routes in the control panel and in the routes.php file. Read More »

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craft.entries

Curious how the craft.entries tag works? From the craft variable to the Entry element type to the ElementCriteriaModel, let's dig as deep as we can and find out how this tag works in our templates and how we can access it in our plugins. 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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Matrix, Entry Types, and Advanced Content Layouts

Explore Craft's ability to create advanced, user-friendly content layouts using the Matrix field and Entry Layouts. These two features give us a delightful amount of design flexibility while still maintaining tight control over the user experience for content editors. Read More »

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Introduction to Element Types in Craft CMS — Part 1 of 3

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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Element Types and the Element Service — Part 2 of 3

This recording is Part 2 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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Exploring the Element Type Model — Part 3 of 3

This recording is Part 3 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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Setting up Craft with Vagrant

Vagrant has become an increasingly popular tool to help make managing multiple development environments easy. At this Dev Day, we take a look at how to manage a Vagrant machine to develop a Craft website. Read More »

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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 »

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The First Craft CMS Dev Day — Live Stream

An extremely long conversation about Craft CMS. Read More »

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