Ben Parizek
Crafting since 2012
Beautiful California
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Good day. My name's Ben. I'm a Partner at Barrel Strength Design and Product Lead of the Sprout Plugin Suite for Craft CMS.
I work with Craft daily and enjoy training companies, content editors, and other designers and developers on how to get the most out of Craft. My firm specializes in helping businesses migrate to Craft CMS with our service The Great Migration, maintaining and providing support for existing Craft CMS websites, developing Craft sites from scratch (from content architecture to custom plugins and integrations).
On the side, I curate, write articles, and host events on Straight Up Craft – a website dedicated to Craft CMS education – and other pastimes include reading history, swing dancing, and, now and then, writing Animal Songs for Strong Children!
If you'd like to talk shop or share some ideas, reach out and say: "Hello"!
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Articles
- Upgrading from Craft 2 to Craft 3: Update Everything on Craft 2 — August 16, 2019
- Upgrading from Craft 2 to Craft 3: A Fresh Install — August 16, 2019
- Upgrading from Craft 2 to Craft 3: Should I update? — January 22, 2019
- Creating a Yii Module for Craft 3 — May 25, 2017
- Examples of Eager Loading Elements in Twig and PHP — March 20, 2016
- Search Straight Up Craft for Craft CMS Plugins and Articles with Alfred — December 19, 2015
- Notes on Updating Plugins for Craft 2.5 — December 04, 2015
- Testing if something exists: is defined, length, is not null, is not empty — October 30, 2015
- Who uses Craft CMS? — September 18, 2015
- Getting Started With Craft CMS — June 22, 2015
- Getting Started with Twig Templating for Craft CMS — June 22, 2015
- Getting Started with Plugin Development for Craft CMS — June 22, 2015
- Getting Started With Javascript in Craft CMS — June 22, 2015
- Development changes in Craft 3 — May 21, 2015
- Content Strategy And Building Websites With Craft CMS — May 15, 2015
- Try Craft Pro for Free — February 08, 2015
- How to use the craft.entries tag in Twig and PHP — December 29, 2014
- How do I force all users to reset their password in Craft CMS? — November 13, 2014
- The Twig processing order in Craft templates — August 30, 2014
- The Definitive Guide to Validation in Craft — July 29, 2014
- Example Twig code for all default Craft fields — June 17, 2014
- Custom Multi-Environment Config and Examples of How to Customize Each Environment — May 14, 2014
- Custom Redactor Toolbars for the Rich Text Field in Craft CMS — May 11, 2014
- How to add custom Redactor toolbars to the default Rich Text field in Craft CMS — May 11, 2014
- The Craft `entry` variable — May 03, 2014
- Twig Quick Start and Twig Templating Key Concepts — May 01, 2014
- How do I setup a route to point to a controller action instead of a template? — April 18, 2014
- An introduction to relations and reverse relations in Craft CMS, with examples — April 13, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: craft.categories — April 11, 2014
- Shortcut: Use command + s to save an entry in the Craft Control Panel — April 10, 2014
- How do I create a loop for repeating dummy content using Twig to help design my site before I have data in the database? — April 09, 2014
- How do I log errors, warnings, and info in my plugins to a Craft log file? — April 07, 2014
- How do I only display a list of categories that have entries and hide empty categories? — April 03, 2014
- How do I output the first image in a group of images? — March 31, 2014
- How do I create an Archives page and manage the URLs using Routes? — March 31, 2014
- How do I output an Assets Field inside a Matrix Field inside an Entry Type? — March 31, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: craft.entries — March 31, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: Global Variables — March 31, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: craft.tags — March 31, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: craft.request — March 31, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: craft.assets — March 30, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: craft.feeds — March 30, 2014
- Cheat Sheet: craft.users — March 30, 2014
- The First Craft CMS Dev Day - Live Stream — March 08, 2013
Hangouts
- Migrating a website with plugins from Craft 2 to Craft 3 — May 04, 2018
- Composer and Craft 3 — April 20, 2018
- Writing Bulletproof Database Migrations — September 02, 2016
- An initial look at Craft 3 — August 05, 2016
- Critical Updates and Craft CMS — August 12, 2016
- Better Build Processes with Gulp and Craft CMS — July 29, 2016
- PhpStorm Workflows, Tips, and Tricks — July 08, 2016
- Customizing the Craft Control Panel — July 01, 2016
- Performance Review: Straight Up Craft Website — June 24, 2016
- Code Review: Extending Twig with a new Tag and the MN Twig Perversion Plugin — June 17, 2016
- Code Review: Optimized Tag Clouds with Taggregate — June 03, 2016
- Flexbox and Craft — May 27, 2016
- Navigating Navigation in Craft CMS — May 20, 2016
- Code Review: Retour Plugin — May 06, 2016
- Matrix as a Layout Builder — May 13, 2016
- Security and Craft CMS — April 22, 2016
- Javascript in the Control Panel — April 29, 2016
- Twig's null-coalescing operator (??)! — April 08, 2016
- DRY Templating Techniques — April 01, 2016
- Eager-Loading Elements — March 18, 2016
- Tools for getting started with plugin development — March 11, 2016
- EntryModel, AssetFileModel, UserModel – What is a Model? — March 04, 2016
- Troubleshooting and debugging errors in PHP — February 26, 2016
- Troubleshooting common errors in Twig — February 19, 2016
- Introduction to Craft Commerce II — February 12, 2016
- Introduction to Craft Commerce — February 05, 2016
- Exploring the Craft /app folder — July 17, 2013
- Routes and Patterns — July 25, 2013
- craft.entries — August 06, 2013
- Multi-Environment Workflows — September 07, 2013
- Matrix, Entry Types, and Advanced Content Layouts — April 15, 2014
- Introduction to Element Types in Craft CMS - Part 1 of 3 — June 04, 2014
- Element Types and the Element Service - Part 2 of 3 — June 06, 2014
- Exploring the Element Type Model - Part 3 of 3 — June 09, 2014
- Setting up Craft with Vagrant — August 03, 2014
- The {% cache %} tag — February 21, 2015