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Craft CMS

A collection of awesome Craft CMS plugins, articles, resources and shiny things.

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General

Craft CMS

is a flexible, extensible content management system for building bespoke digital experiences.

Community

Craft Coding Challenge

A training ground for Craft CMS developers to test and improve their coding skills.

Craft Cookbook

Quick solutions to common Craft CMS problems.

CraftQuest

Unlimited access to Craft training (and more).

Discord

The official Discord community for Craft CMS.

Facebook

Like the official Craft CMS Facebook page.

Issues, Feedback, Discussions

Post feature ideas and bug reports on GitHub.

Meetups

Find a local Craft meetup.

StackExchange

Q&A for administrators, end users, developers and designers.

Twitter

Follow the conversation, official community hashtag is #craftcms.

Mastodon

Latest news, on the newest network.

Work With Craft

Dedicated job board aimed to connect employers with Craft professionals.

Plugins

Craft 4 Plugins

Craft 3 Plugins

Developer Portal

Generator

Resources >Core Technologies

PHP

A popular general-purpose scripting language.

Yii

A fast, secure, and efficient PHP framework.

Twig

The flexible, fast, and secure template engine for PHP.

MySQL

The world's most popular open source database.

In 9 listsDetails

PostgreSQL

The world's most advanced open source database.

In 9 listsDetails

Resources >Articles

9 Tips For Speeding Up Your Imager Transforms

by André Elvan/Værsågod - 12 Jun 2017

Creating Optimized Images in Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 9 Sep 2017

Responsive Images with srcset & Craft

by Trevor Davis/Viget - 22 Mar 2016

Simple Static Asset Versioning in Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 6 Jan 2018

Support for Imgix in Imager for Craft

by André Elvan/Værsågod - 10 Jul 2017

Multi-attribute variant selection in Craft Commerce

by André Elvan/Værsågod - 13 Feb 2017

Craft CMS Content Builder: The Client Experience

by Cosmic - 1 Feb 2017

Creating a Content Builder in Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 16 Jan 2017

Add users to Craft with content migrations

by Joren Van Hee - 28 Oct 2018

Using Content Migrations in Craft 3

by Matt Shearing/A Digital - 23 Feb 2018

11 Things You Need to Know About Craft 3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Why you should update your website to Craft CMS 3

by Lauren Swarbrick/Abstrakt - 22 Nov 2019

Atomic Deployments Without Tears

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107

Global Sets in the Craft Element API

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Lazy Loading with the Element API & VueJS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 14 Jan 2017

Database & Asset Syncing Between Environments in Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 7 Apr 2017

Localization & Multi-Environment Setup in Craft

by Ian Ebden/Design Karma - 4 Apr 2017

Multi-Environment Config for Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 4 Sep 2017

Craft CMS AJAX Page Transitions with history.pushState

by Cosmic - 1 Feb 2017

Editing a Front End Form with Matrix

by Sean Smith/Caffeine Creations

Language switcher for Craft 3

by Jan D'Hollander - 25 July 2018

20 Principles for Craft CMS

by Knut Melvær - 30 Sep 2017

Craft CMS 3 Orientation Guide

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 31 July 2018

Craft CMS through the eyes of a website designer

by Laura Montgomery/A Digital Agency– 3 September 2021

How To Get Started With SEO In Craft CMS

by Galaxy Weblinks - 22 June 2018

Setting up a New Craft CMS 3 Project

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 12 Jan 2018

Sending notifications to Slack and other channels with Craft CMS

by Rias Van der Veken

The Living Component Library

by Graham Smith/Clearleft - 13 Mar 2017

Getting Started with Craft CMS 2 and Laravel Valet

by Jalen Davenport - 9 Feb 2018

Getting Started with Craft CMS 3 and Laravel Valet

by Jalen Davenport - 23 Feb 2018

How I Automate My Local Development Craft CMS 2.x Installs

by Tim Knight - 17 Jul 2017

A Craft CMS Development Workflow With Docker: Part 1 - Local Development

by Matt Gray - 4 Dec 2018

Enhancing a Craft CMS 3 Website with a Custom Module

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 19 Mar 2018

A/B Split Testing with Nginx & Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 29 Nov 2017

Debug Tool in Craft 3: Here’s all you need to know about it

by Galaxy Weblinks - 2 July 2018

Large websites and performance in Craft CMS

by Jason Mayo/MadeByShape - 2 Apr 2017

Profiling your Website with Craft CMS 3’s Debug Toolbar

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 9 Apr 2018

Speed up your Craft CMS Templates with Eager Loading

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 21 Dec 2017

Static File Caching with Craft CMS 3, aka The Best Of Both Worlds

by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 21 Nov 2018

Static Page Caching with Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 25 Dec 2017

The Craft {% cache %} Tag In-Depth

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 24 Jan 2018

Thoughts on full page caching in Craft

by Josh Angell - 29 Aug 2017

3 Things to Know About Craft Plugin Development

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft Plugins in Craft 3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Getting Started with Craft Plugin Development with Ben Croker

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Inspiration for Your First Craft Plugin

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft CMS E-Commerce: Why and How I Built a Snipcart Plugin

by Matt Stein

The Guide to Craft CMS Development

by Ryan Masuga

The Ultimate Craft CMS vs WordPress Guide

by Ryan Masuga

Introduction to Craft CMS

by Jérôme Coupé/Webstoemp (on Github)

Securing Front-End User Profile and Entry Forms in Craft

by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 4 May 2021

Securing Your Craft Site in 2022—Part 3

by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 24 May 2022

Securing Your Craft Site in 2021—Part 2

by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 26 Jan 2021

Securing Your Craft Site in 2021—Part 1

by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 13 Jan 2021

Storing Secrets in Craft CMS

by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 6 July 2021

Common Security Vulnerabilities in Craft CMS Plugins

by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 31 Oct 2021

Enforcing better passwords in Craft CMS

Rias

Hardening Craft CMS Permissions

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 19 Mar 2017

Hashing Redirect Params in Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

The Case of the Missing PHP Session

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 3 Oct 2017

Using Categories in Craft CMS

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Brief Overview of Craft Routing to Templates

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Building Complex Queries by Extending the ElementCriteriaModel

by Keith Damiani/Tighten Co - 10 Feb 2016

Creating an Age Drop-down with Twig range()

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

DRY Templating with Twig and Craft CMS

by Pierre Stoffe/Base Digital - 31 May 2017

Filters in Twig and Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Handling Errors Gracefully in Craft CMS

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 20 Oct 2017

How to check for undefined variables

by Ben Rogerson - 24 July 2018

Key Value Arrays in Twig

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Passing data from Twig to JavaScript

by Ben Rogerson - 1 Aug 2018

Quick Tips: Craft CMS

by Gregor Terrill - 26 May 2017

Three Twig Tag Types in Craft CMS Explained

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Twig Processing Order & Scope

by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 3 Jan 2017

Using Macros in Twig and Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Using Variables in Twig and Craft CMS

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Where am I in the Twig Loop?

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Tips for Craft multilingual websites

by Jérôme Coupé/Webstoemp - 15 Jul 2015

Combined searches and filters using Craft

by Jérôme Coupé/Webstoemp - 17 Feb 2016

SVG Sprites and Twig Macros in Craft CMS

by Sean Smith/Caffeine Creations - 29 June 2018

Responsive tables in Craft

by Jan D'Hollander - 10 July 2018

Resources >Videos

Craft 3 Remote Volumes with AWS S3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Image Editing in Craft 3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Images and Image Editing in Craft 3

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 17 Mar 2017

Remote Asset Sources in Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Fundamentals of Craft Commerce

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

Introduction to Craft Commerce II

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 12 Feb 2016

Pushing the Limits of Craft CMS's Matrix Field

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 17 Mar 2017

Customizing the Craft Control Panel

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 1 Jul 2016

An initial look at Craft 3

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 5 Aug 2016

Craft 3 Command Line

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft 3: What You Need to Know

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Better Build Processes with Gulp and Craft

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 29 Jun 2016

Creating an Element API in Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft CMS 3 Manual Installation

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - 5 Apr 2018

Craft CMS Essentials

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

Craft Starter Pack

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

Up and Running with Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

Craft-Powered Apps

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 16 Sep 2016

Composer and Craft 3

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 20 Apr 2018

Installing Composer

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Installing Craft 3 (beta)

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Installing Craft CMS

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Updating Craft 3 Beta

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Upgrading Craft 2 to Craft 3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Managing Multiple Sites in Craft 3 – Sites and Localization

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 10 Mar 2017

Using Craft CMS 3 Multi-Site

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

How I Use Craft Scripts in Craft CMS Running in Craft Nitro 2

Hot Module Reloading with Laravel Mix v6 and Craft Nitro 2

Local Development with Craft Nitro

Yii Debug Toolbar in Craft CMS 3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft 3 Plugin Development - Controllers & Variables

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 7 Apr 2017

Craft Plugin Development

by Ben Croker/Mijingo - Paid

Craft Plugin Development Workbook

by Ben Croker/Mijingo - Paid

Getting Started with Craft Plugin Development (Craft 3)

by Ben Croker/CraftQuest

Getting Started with Craft Plugin Development (Craft 2)

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Migrating a Field Type plugin from Craft 2 to Craft 3

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 24 Mar 2017

Migrating a plugin from Craft 2 to Craft 3

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 3 Mar 2017

Migrating a website with plugins from Craft 2 to Craft 3

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 4 May 2018

Plugins in Craft 3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Tools for getting started with plugin development?

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 11 Mar 2016

Writing Bulletproof Database Migrations

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 2 Sep 2016

Craft CMS E-Commerce: Why and How I Built a Snipcart Plugin

by Matt Stein

Critical Updates and Craft CMS

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 2 Sep 2016

Hashing Redirects in Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Security and Craft CMS

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 22 Apr 2016

Changing Section Labels in Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Control Flow in Twig

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

Craft 3 Service APIs in Templates

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo -DRY Templating Techniques by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 1 Apr 2016

Eager-Loading Elements

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 18 Mar 2016

Flexbox and Craft

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 27 May 2016

Flexible Twig Templates in Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

How I build components in CraftCMS with Twig

by Alex Carpenter - 28 Dec 2017

How to build a content builder in Craft CMS

by Alex Carpenter - 30 Mar 2018

How to build a reusable carousel component with Craft CMS

by Alex Carpenter - 22 Apr 2018

Matrix as a Layout Builder

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 13 May 2016

Navigating Navigation in Craft CMS

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 20 May 2016

Nested navigation based on Structure section

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - 30 Jan 2018

Passing Data with Twig Include

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Twig Templates in Craft

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

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

by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 8 Apr 2016

Using .all() in Craft 3

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Using the Batch Filter in Twig

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Building a Blog in Craft CMS

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - 23 Jan 2018

Contact Form in Craft CMS

by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Resources >Presentations

Building a Smarter Craft Commerce Website

by Stephen Callender - 27 Sep 2018

Craft 3 Plugin Development

by Brandon Kelly - 26 Apr 2017

Crafting Modern SEO

by Andrew Welch - 23 Oct 2017

Design Processes and Systems in Craft

by Courtney Bradford - 27 Sep 2018

Designers Guide to Craft CMS Plugins

by Jason Mayo - 3 Nov 2016

Dot All 2017 Keynote

by Brandon Kelly - 23 Oct 2017

How to Migrate Legacy Content to Craft Without Losing Your Sanity

by James Greig - Sep 28 2018

Intro to Craft

by Philip Zaengle - 29 Apr 2016

Intro to Craft 3

by Brandon Kelly - 26 Apr 2017

Making a Craft CMS Website That Flies

by Andrew Welch - 27 Sep 2018

Modern Frontends with Craft CMS, GraphQL, and React

by Paulo Elias

Multilingual Sites in Craft 3

by Zoltan Varady - 27 Sep 2018

Running Craft as a 12-factor app on Heroku

by Bob Olde Hampsink - 27 Sep 2018

Scaling Craft CMS Sites for Large Launches

by Matt Weinberg - 28 Sep 2018

State of Craft 2018

by Brandon Kelly - 28 Sep 2018

The Art Of Plugin Development

by Ben Croker - 27 Sep 2018

Twig Super Power Roundup

by Jason Mayo - 1 Nov 2018

What’s the Deal with Craft CMS?

by Brandon Kelly - 21 Apr 2016

Working with Craft Commerce

by Jason Mayo - 2 Nov 2017

Resources >Praises

10 Reasons Why We Love Craft CMS

by Taecho Group

A Review of Craft Commerce

by Adam Fairholm/New Media Campaigns - 19 May 2017

A love letter to Craft CMS

by Harry Keller/diesdas.digital - 18 Apr 2017

An Overview of Pixel & Tonic’s Craft CMS

by Matthew Soyka - 21 Feb 2017

Craft CMS vs WordPress: A comparison & why we love Craft CMS

by Chris Cox/Made by Bridge - 17 Nov 2021

Craft CMS Vs WordPress: Why Choose Craft?

19 June 2018

Crazy About Craft

by Nathan Huening/New Media Campaigns - 27 Feb 2017

How we chose Craft CMS for our product websites

by Eugene Fedorenko/Wildbit - 1 Nov 2016

Why Content Managers Love Craft CMS

by Lauren Swarbrick/Abstrakt - 17 May 2017

Why Content Writers Love Craft CMS

by Sean Smith/Caffeine Creations

Why Craft CMS is the best content management system we (and you) have ever used

by Owen Matthews and Andy Green/Ten4 Design - 21 Apr 2017

Why We Love Craft CMS

by Trevor Davis/Viget - 17 Oct 2014

Why We Use Craft CMS

by Cosmic - 1 Feb 2017

Why We Use Craft CMS

by Masonry - 7 Nov 2017

Why We're Craft CMS Developers

by Honcho - 16 Apr 2019

Why We've Fallen Head Over Heels for Craft CMS

by Welford Media - 14 Oct 2016

Why we develop websites using Craft CMS instead of Wordpress

by Abstrakt - 25 Apr 2017

Why you should be considering Craft over WordPress

by Sam Goddard/Kind - 21 Mar 2017

Why Craft?

by Jérôme Coupé/Webstoemp - 17 Jun 2015

Resources >Podcasts

Craft.Podcast

A voice for the #CraftCMS community.

Craft CMS 3 as an Application Platform

devmode.fm and Ben Crocker dis­cuss using Craft CMS 3 as an appli­ca­tion plat­form.

Craft CMS 3 with Pixel & Tonic Founder Brandon Kelly!

Get an insider’s view of the the devel­op­ment of Craft CMS 3.

Dot All 2018 Conference Recap & Analysis, Live from Berlin!

The dev​Mode​.fm crew recaps the Dot All 2018 Con­fer­ence in Berlin.

Talk­ing Craft CMS 3 RC1!

The inau­gur­al episode of the dev​Mode​.fm pod­cast.

Commerce Minded

A Craft Commerce-centric podcast that goes behind the scenes to chat with ecommerce merchants, developers, and vendors.

Resources >Dev Tools

Craft CLI

Command line interface for Craft CMS 2.

Craft CMS Bootstrap

Streamline Craft CMS bootstrapping and configuration.

Craft CMS Docker

Get started playing with Craft CMS 3 in a few command lines with Docker.

Craft 3 Multi-environment

Craft 2 Version - Efficient and flexible multi-environment config for Craft CMS.

Craft Scripts

Shell scripts to manage common tasks between Craft CMS environments.

Craftman

To help speed set up and start a new Craft CMS installation smoothly.

Crafty Vagrant

A boilerplate dev environment for jump-starting Craft CMS projects.

Generator Craft Install

Yeoman generator for Craft CMS installs.

Happy Lager Demo Site

A fork of the Craft CMS demo site, updated for Craft 3.

Nginx Craft

An Nginx virtual host configuration for Craft CMS that implements a number of best-practices.

Plugin Factory

Generate Craft CMS plugin code scaffolding that conforms to P&T’s Coding Standards.

Showcase >Official Case Studies

% Arabica

Project: arabicacoffee.hk by Digital Butter

Associated Press

Project: blog.ap.org + insights.ap.org by Vector Media Group

Barefoot Contessa

Project: barefootcontessa.com by Apartment One & Jonathan Melville

Grill'd

Project: grilld.com.au by Evolution 7

iDE Global

Project: ideglobal.org by Flipbox Digital

Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity

Project: kappaalphatheta.org by TrendyMinds

McKinnon and Harris

Project: mckinnonharris.com by Foster Made

Mixmag Media

Project: mixmag.net by The Rye Agency

Poki

Project: poki.com by Evermade

Samuelsohn

Project: samuelsohn.com by Digital Surgeons

Segway

Project: uk-en.segway.com by Wirelab Digital Agency

Simon Fraser University (SFU) Beedie School of Business

Project: beedie.sfu.ca by Goat

Ultimate.ai

Project: ultimate.ai by Function & Form Digital

YumEarth

Project: yumearth.com by Electric Enjin

Showcase >Organizations Using Craft

Agatha Christie

An Event Apart

Associated Press: Blog

Plus the Insights website.

Atkins

Atlassian: Design

End-to-end design language to create straightforward and beautiful experiences.

In 4 lists

Betterteam

BigCommerce

Bill Nye

Canary Media

City of Marion, IN

City of Oakland

Confab Events

Dalai Lama

Dialpad

people-first phone and meeting system that includes internet fax and follows you where you work

In 2 lists

Duck Brand

Emily Carr University

Field Notes

Uses Craft Commerce.

Foursquare for Business

Grill'd

Guy Fieri

Hootsuite

Add speed and agility to your social media strategy. From one dashboard you’ll schedule Tweets and Facebook posts, monitor conversations, and more. When you need to prove your social ROI, quickly create and customize ready-to-present analytics reports.

In 6 listsDetails

Icon Motorsports

iDE Global

Intel: Managed Service Providers

Klipsch

LA Marathon

Layer Tennis

A Coudal Partners production sponsored by Adobe.

Medialoot

Mini: Miles Ahead

Mixmag Media

NameSnack

Naughty Dog

Naviance

Netflix: Media Center

Nissin Foods

OneSignal

Mobile and web notifications.

In 4 listsDetails

Outreach

PBS Kids Games

Craft powers the APIs used for the app.

PBS Parents

Pingdom

A tool to get the uptime of your website (with probes from different locations).

In 3 lists

Princeton Theological Seminary

ProPublica

Reddit Inc.

SalesforceIQ

Samuelsohn

Sonos

is the wireless home sound system that fills as many rooms as you want with great-sounding music, movies, and TV.

In 2 lists

Stanford Research Park

Stearns & Foster

Visit Victoria: Corporate

Wildbit

Yale Environment 360

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