Recently in the CraftCMS world... The inaugural Dot All conference was a big success. Pixel & Tonic announced some exciting things: the Craft 3 GA release date (4/4/18), new licenses, a CKEditor 5 fieldtype, and more. Michael and Andrew talk about the talks they liked, their takeaways from the conference as a whole, and how they don't want to do an…

In this episode, we wish you a Happy New Year and chat about some [mostly Craft-related] technologies and trends we're looking forward to in 2017: Craft CMS 3, Yii 2, the Craft plugin store, VueJS, Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, content marketing, CMFs (content management frameworks), and a golden age of #perfmatters. We wrap up…

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Michael and Andrew have been talking and writing about AMP — and Craft is the perfect CMS for implementing AMP content! Solspace released Freeform. Toronto and Melbourne have upcoming Meetups. Michael attempts to speak 'Strayan; Andrew is jealous.By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

Michael & Andrew interview two developers who have made the switch from Drupal to Craft CMS: Patrick Harrington and Marko Srdo?. Some very interesting discussion ensued about the strengths of Craft CMS, and also where Craft CMS could learn from Drupal. The unique perspective that two experienced Drupal developers offer on their take of Craft CMS is…

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Pixel & Tonic announced that Craft 3 will support multi-site setups by expanding the concept of locales into "sites."By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

Recently in the CraftCMS world... PT has ported all the 2.5 and 2.6 functionality to the 3.x branch, which means Craft 3 beta is coming in hot. We talk about how Yii 2 is the focus for the 3.0 release, and why this is awesome.By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

Andrew & special guest host Earl Johnston interview long time ExpressionEngine developer Sean Smith from http://caffeinecreations.ca/ , discussing his recent transition to using Craft CMS. We cover both the moments of unbridled joy, and the moments of frustration as Sean discusses his approach to learning to use Craft, and the contrasts between it …

Michael & Andrew continue the conversation about website performance, focusing on efficient Twig templating with Craft CMS. Topics covered include how to code performant templates, using the {% cache %} tag efficiently, how to profile and optimize your front-end dev, and a good discussion of Eager Loading. TTFT (Time To First Teet is also covered)…

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Build 2.6.2791, Craft's first ever critical update, addresses a clever template injection vulnerability. Pixel & Tonic released a fix in less than 24 hours from initial disclosure, and you should definitely make sure you've updated. In this episode, Brad Bell walks us through how the exploit works and how they patc…

Michael & Andrew continue the conversation about website performance. This time we cover server-side performance, and the benefits of embracing performance-minded server tech like PHP7, Nginx, MariaDB, and HTTP2. As in our previous episode, we cover the practical implications, how to educate your clients about these technologies, and why you should…

Recently in the Craft CMS world... ImageMagick (used by many Craft installs) has a security vulnerability. Michael & Andrew talk about the details and emphasize the importance of keeping your software up-to-date. We also talk about some emerging security best practices for Craft CMS as well as a new security audit plugin Sherlock.…

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Andrew had a birthday and released a truckload of new stuff: Retour (for handling 404 redirects), Recipe, and generator-craftinstall (Yeoman generator for bootstrapping CraftCMS projects). Michael released Hue, a color picker fieldtype w/ true null values for empty colors. Solspace released a massive new Calendar p…

Recently in the CraftCMS world... Craft now utilizes eager loading on the element index pages for a much faster CP experience. Template Modes are the new template paths. Straight Up Craft added elastic search for plugins, and craftplug.in launched. PicPuller is back! Printmaker got an upgrade; PDFs are now emailable.…

Andrew Welch returns to the Craft Podcast, this time to talk about server and client-side performance practices. Performance is an afterthought to many designers, developers, and even clients, but it is a crucial part of creating a modern website. In the first part of this two part podcast, we discuss why performance is so important in terms of use…

In this episode, we talk with Andrew Welch about SEO: What does SEO mean in 2016? How do we tell if we're doing well? What are the modern best practices, and how do we implement them in Craft? Meta tags, structured data, JSON-LD, Twitter Cards, Facebook Open Graph, Page Speed - we cover a ton of ground. Equally as important as the technical impleme…

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Craft 2.6 brings lots of new goodies: Eager loading for elements, a new Charts library, better link controls in Rich Text editor fields, customizable Client account permissions, and much more!By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Craft Kint enables powerful PHP debugging in Craft templates. Papertrail enables Craft templates and plugins to publish events to a live, aggregated log feed. Flexibility provides a robust polyfill that enables Flexbox directives in legacy browsers. And, Pixel & Tonic's Craft Case Studies show that CraftCMS is being …

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Fred Carlsen & Mats Mikkel Rummelhoff ported Lettering.js into a plugin: Craft Lettering. Sprout Email now supports several Craft Commerce events. Philip Zaengle and his team integrated Craft Commerce with a reservation booking system and wrote about it in their blog. Straight Up Hangouts are back, starting with an I…

In this episode, Pixel & Tonic founder Brandon Kelly, and newly-minted Chief Customer Officer Leslie Camacho give us a personal introduction to P&T's new Craft Services program and share their vision for helping Craft customers be more successful.By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Search Plus brings elastic search to Craft via Algolia. The null coalescing operator is now available natively in Twig, so it'll hopefully be coming to Craft sometime soon. The latest report shows CraftCMS owning 0.1% market share among top CMSs. PeersConf opened their 2016 Call for Proposals. GeeUp tickets are on sa…

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Reasons helps you show/hide fields based on the content of other fields; use with caution. Embedded Assets lets you treat remote content (YouTube/Vimeo/etc.) like native Assets. Sprout Reports is ready to play; check out the slick new API for defining your own reports/sources. The first-party Contact Form plugin has …

Lately in the CraftCMS world... Andrew Welch released PluginFactory.io, a Yeoman generator for Craft plugins, and SEOmatic. Michael released QQ and hopes that everyone starts using the null coalescing operator. Rob Sanchez wrote a Craft CLI. And, best news of the week... Craft's rich text editor now lets you add your own URL fragments to Entry link…

In this episode, Les calls Michael in Singapore to talk about how to get involved in the CraftCMS community, the importance of StackExchange, Slack etiquette, and how we're all in this to make each other better.By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

In this follow-up to Episode 4, Michael — joined again by our friend Steven Grant — talks about Craft's technical merits and explains how Craft adds value to projects from a developer perspective. We discuss Craft's flexible, content-first architecture, the benefits of API dogfooding, why developers love Twig, and how Craft makes it easy to create …

Leslie walks us through his value-first sales philosophy and explains how to make an effective pitch for Craft as a business solution.By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

Michael answers some 'getting started' questions from our friend Jesse Schutte — a veteran developer on several platforms, but brand new to Craft. We talk about setting up and structuring Craft sites, using Craft's multi-environment config setup, and exploring Craft's API and framework.By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

We catch up with the founder of Pixel & Tonic and Craft's creator Brandon Kelly. We cover the state of Craft, where it came from, where its going, and manage a little biz talk along the way.By Michael Rog & Andrew Welch

We were fortunate to catch Ben in person at Peers Conference. Ben is a partner at Barrel Strength Design and the founder of StraightupCraft.com, the number one Craft Community website. He's also an economist (yes, really) who wants to make creating and supporting Craft plug-ins healthy, sustainable, and profitable. We find out how in this interview…