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Showcase
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- 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 (⭐2.9k)
Starter Project - github.com/craftcms/craft (⭐158)
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 (⭐2.9k) - 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 (⭐83) 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 (⭐139) - Command line interface for Craft CMS 2.
Craft CMS Bootstrap (⭐4) - Streamline Craft CMS bootstrapping and configuration.
Craft CMS Docker (⭐36) - Get started playing with Craft CMS 3 in a few command lines with Docker.
Craft 3 Multi-environment (⭐72) - Craft 2 Version (⭐83) - Efficient and flexible multi-environment config for Craft CMS.
Craft Scripts (⭐359) - Shell scripts to manage common tasks between Craft CMS environments.
Craftman (⭐125) - To help speed set up and start a new Craft CMS installation smoothly.
Crafty Vagrant (⭐57) - A boilerplate dev environment for jump-starting Craft CMS projects.
Generator Craft Install (⭐56) - Yeoman generator for Craft CMS installs.
Happy Lager Demo Site (⭐8) - A fork of the Craft CMS demo site, updated for Craft 3.
Nginx Craft (⭐299) - 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 Overview

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Getting Started

Integration

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Nitro

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Presentations

Praises

Podcasts

Dev Tools

Showcase

Official Case Studies

Organizations Using Craft