Straight Up Hangouts are loosely structured conversations on Craft CMS. From design to development to content strategy and more.
Join Barrel Strength Design (the team behind the Sprout Plugins) and special guests from the community and learn to master Craft CMS.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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