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Resources
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- Videos
- Presentations
- Praises
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Showcase
- Official Case Studies
- Organizations Using Craft

Official Links

Website - craftcms.com
Newsletter - craftcms.com/newsletter
Craft Commerce - craftcms.com/commerce
Demos - craftcms.com/demo
Tutorial – craftcms.com/docs/getting-started-tutorial
Craft CMS 4 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/4.x - Class Reference
Commerce 4 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/commerce/4.x - Class Reference
Knowledge Base - craftcms.com/knowledge-base
Partners - craftcms.com/partners
Craft Console - console.craftcms.com
Repository - github.com/craftcms/cms
Starter Project - github.com/craftcms/craft
Dot All Conference - craftcms.com/events

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

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.
PostgreSQL - The world's most advanced open source database.

Articles

Assets

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

Commerce

Multi-attribute variant selection in Craft Commerce by André Elvan/Værsågod - 13 Feb 2017

Content

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

Content Migrations

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

Getting Started

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

Integrations

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

Local Dev

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

Modules

Enhancing a Craft CMS 3 Website with a Custom Module by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 19 Mar 2018

Performance and Testing

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

Plugins

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

Publications

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)

Security

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

Taxonomies

Using Categories in Craft CMS by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Templating

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

Videos

Assets

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

Commerce

Fundamentals of Craft Commerce by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid
Introduction to Craft Commerce II by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 12 Feb 2016

Content

Pushing the Limits of Craft CMS's Matrix Field by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 17 Mar 2017

Control Panel

Customizing the Craft Control Panel by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 1 Jul 2016

Craft 3

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

Development

Better Build Processes with Gulp and Craft by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 29 Jun 2016

Element API

Creating an Element API in Craft by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Getting Started

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

Integration

Craft-Powered Apps by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 16 Sep 2016

Installation and Upgrading

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

Multi-site

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

Nitro

Performance and Testing

Yii Debug Toolbar in Craft CMS 3 by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Plugins

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

Security

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

Templating

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

Tutorials

Building a Blog in Craft CMS by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - 23 Jan 2018
Contact Form in Craft CMS by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

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

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

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 devMode.fm crew recaps the Dot All 2018 Conference in Berlin.
Talking Craft CMS 3 RC1! - The inaugural episode of the devMode.fm podcast.
Commerce Minded - A Craft Commerce-centric podcast that goes behind the scenes to chat with ecommerce merchants, developers, and vendors.

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

Organizations Using Craft

Agatha Christie
An Event Apart
Associated Press: Blog - Plus the Insights website.
Atkins
Atlassian: Design
Betterteam
BigCommerce
Bill Nye
Canary Media
City of Marion, IN
City of Oakland
Confab Events
Dalai Lama
Dialpad
Duck Brand
Emily Carr University
Field Notes - Uses Craft Commerce.
Foursquare for Business
Grill'd
Guy Fieri
Hootsuite
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
Outreach
PBS Kids Games - Craft powers the APIs used for the app.
PBS Parents
Pingdom
Princeton Theological Seminary
ProPublica
Reddit Inc.
SalesforceIQ
Samuelsohn
Sonos
Stanford Research Park
Stearns & Foster
Visit Victoria: Corporate
Wildbit
Yale Environment 360

Awesome

Craft CMS

Contributing

Contents

Official Links

Community

Plugins

Resources

Core Technologies

Articles

Assets

Commerce

Content

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Craft 3

Deployment

Element API

Environments

Front End

Getting Started

Integrations

Local Dev

Modules

Performance and Testing

Plugins

Publications

Security

Taxonomies

Templating

Videos

Assets

Commerce

Content

Control Panel

Craft 3

Development

Element API

Getting Started

Integration

Installation and Upgrading

Multi-site

Nitro

Performance and Testing

Plugins

Security

Templating

Tutorials

Presentations

Praises

Podcasts

Dev Tools

Showcase

Official Case Studies

Organizations Using Craft