Crafty Field Migration
Migrating content between fields in Craft is not as simple as it might be. In the wake of Craft 5, I've been getting a lot of practice, and wanted to write up some of the techniques I've been using.
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Craft 5, Matrix Entries, & Custom Sources
Craft 5 introduces entry-based Matrix fields, but being able to see the entries created this way is surprisingly tricky. Thankfully, it can be done!
Creating content migrations in Craft CMS
A useful primer on how to use migration files in […]
A GitHub content editor
Prose is a service that connects with any GitHub repo you want, and then lets you edit Markdown and plain text files directly from a dedicated text editor. Particularly useful for people using GitHub […]
A static-site CMS that runs in VS Code
A clever, open-source CMS designed for static site generators like Eleventy, Astro, and Hugo which use Markdown files and frontmatter metadata. The CMS itself runs directly in your IDE, giving you a […]
DDEV: A Worthwhile Investment?
Various notes from my battle to get a local development environment working for Craft CMS.
Craft vs Bitdefender: Certificate Wars
For the last month, I've been getting show-stopping errors in Craft. My web host couldn't find any faults, Craft support had no clue, and it only affected one machine: one with Bitdefender installed. I wonder...
Improving Craft on Smaller Screens
Craft CMS can be a very enjoyable mobile authoring experience, but it can be improved with some clever plugins and a few relatively new core features.
Craft Update Woes
CraftCMS has a habit of imploding when running software updates, for which I have developed several coping strategies.
Recording Records
A look at the largely manual workflow I've used to convert my physical music collection into a digital data archive.
Get static
At the start of the pandemic, Eric made a strong case that all critical websites needed to rapidly optimise for high traffic and accessibility (here very much meaning both a11y and device/situation […]
Jamstack Conf 2020
Notes from the 2020 Jamstack Conf. Some interesting dives in the Jamstack community and various applications of Jamstack technologies, with tweet threads as usual.
Useful Entry URIs with Headless Craft
When using Craft in a headless configuration, your entry URIs will default to the wrong domain and won't be properly configured to match your actual site structure, but that can be fixed.
Structuring Reviews
It turns out that there are a lot of gotchas to creating a clear category structure for media reviews. Well, after a year of messing around with various setups behind the scenes, I think I'm starting to get somewhere.
Animated GIFs with Craft CMS on Krystal Hosting
Every time I upload a GIF to this website it ends up rendered as a single frame. It's taken me quite a while to get to the bottom of why that is.
Crafty Aliases & Environment Variables
Craft CMS has the ability to accept environment variables as well as aliases. It can be worthwhile understanding how these two seemingly similar concepts differ, and when you might want to use one over the other.
Adding Search: Refining The Frontend (Algolia, Gatsby, Craft CMS - Part 3)
The search page is live, the index is populated, but it all looked a bit rubbish and it didn't quite work as well as I wanted. Now it's using custom-styled components, queries are tracked/stored via the URL for persistence, and you can filter results based on category.
Adding Search: User Interface (Algolia, Gatsby, Craft CMS - Part 2)
Having hooked up Algolia with my Gatsby build pipeline and populated a search index from my Craft CMS API, the next step was the build a frontend UI to enable users to actually query my posts. It turned out to be a pretty simple process.