Twig Templating

Code Review: Extend­ing Twig with a new Tag and the MN Twig Per­ver­sion Plugin

Do you write clean, optimized code and aspire to best practices? Whether you're actively developing Craft plugins or just getting started, in this Code Review we'll demo real Craft plugin code that's out in the wild and discuss what we can learn from it and how to make it better. This week we'll look at MN Twig Perversion, one of the daring plugins that has ventured into extending Twig to create a new Twig Tag. Twig Tags are a complex feature that require we get a better understanding of Twig's internals as we extend the template engine with Token Parser and Node classes. Read More »

Barrel Strength Design

Flexbox and Craft

In this hangout we will appreciate Craft's BYO HTML approach to templating and take a closer look at the CSS Flexbox Layout module. Breaking away from the float-based approach that has guided web layouts for many years, Flexbox brings a new way of thinking to to how we approach the components of our websites and web applications giving us a variety of new features to help keep things flexible as we design for multiple devices and screen sizes. Read More »

Barrel Strength Design

Twig’s null-coa­lesc­ing operator (??)!

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 »

Barrel Strength Design

Exam­ples of Eager Load­ing Ele­ments in Twig and PHP

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

DRY Tem­plat­ing Techniques

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 »

Barrel Strength Design

Entry­Mod­el, Asset­File­Mod­el, User­Mod­el – What is a Model?

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 »

Barrel Strength Design

Trou­bleshoot­ing com­mon errors in Twig

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 »

Barrel Strength Design

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 »

Barrel Strength Design

Notes on Updat­ing Plu­g­ins for Craft 2.5

Craft 2.5 gives us several new opportunities in our Craft CMS plugins. Read More »

Ben Parizek

How to check if a vari­able or val­ue exists using Twig

A reference of the expected results for numerous conditional tests you can perform in your Twig templates. Read More »

Craft CMS Package for Atom

Add snippets and template tags for the Craft CMS to Twig & HTML files in Atom. GitHub

Respon­sive images with Twig macros

This article will discuss responsive image markup and twig macros to automate generating that markup. Read More »

Marion Newlevant

Intermediate Twig: Logic, Macros, and more with Andrew Welch

Special guest Andrew Welch joins the show to help us take a deeper look at Twig, the templating language for Craft CMS. We discuss some of the features that developers should consider for more efficient development, namely filters and macros. CTRL+CLICK CAST

Tips for Craft CMS Multilingual Websites

I live and work in Belgium, a country with three official languages. Multilingual websites are quite a common sight around here. Here is what I learned along the way after building a few of those using Craft CMS. Jérôme Coupé

Notes on how to create a Language Grammar and Custom Theme for a Textmate Bundle

Over the past couple of years I've been working a lot with Craft CMS and Twig. There was an existing PHP-Twig Textmate bundle which was a good starting point but there were several Craft-specific improvements I wanted to make... Ben Parizek, Barrel Strength Design