craftcms/awesome

Resources

Getting Started

Craft CMS through the eyes of a website designer by Laura Montgomery/A Digital Agency– 3 September 2021

Resources

Deployment

Atomic Deployments Without Tears by Andrew Welch/nystudio107

Official Links

Craft + Craft Commerce Demos - craftcms.com/demo

Resources

Nitro

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

Official Links

Craft Commerce - craftcms.com/commerce

Craft Nitro - getnitro.sh

Craft CMS Tutorial – craftcms.com/docs/getting-started-tutorial

Craft CMS 3 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/3.x - Class Reference

Craft CMS 2 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/2.x - Class Reference

Craft Commerce 3 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/commerce/3.x - Class Reference

Craft Commerce 2 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/commerce/2.x - Class Reference

Craft Commerce 1 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/commerce/1.x

Craft Nitro 2 Docs - craftcms.com/docs/nitro/2.x

Knowledge Base - craftcms.com/knowledge-base

Showcase

Official Case Studies

% Arabica - Project: arabicacoffee.hk by Digital Butter

Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity - Project: kappaalphatheta.org by TrendyMinds

McKinnon and Harris - Project: mckinnonharris.com by Foster Made

Poki - Project: poki.com by Evermade

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

Resources

Performance and Testing

Static File Caching with Craft CMS 3, aka The Best Of Both Worlds by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 21 Nov 2018

Resources

Security

Securing Front-End User Profile and Entry Forms in Craft by Ben Croker/PutYourLightsOn - 4 May 2021

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

Showcase

Organizations Using Craft

Betterteam

NameSnack

Official Links

Dot All Conference - dotall.com

Resources

Praises

Why We're Craft CMS Developers by Honcho - 16 Apr 2019

Showcase

Organizations Using Craft

OneSignal

Resources

Plugins

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

Resources

Plugins

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

Resources

Local Dev

A Craft CMS Development Workflow With Docker: Part 1 - Local Development by Matt Gray - 4 Dec 2018

Showcase

Organizations Using Craft

City of Marion, IN

Resources

Craft 3

Why you should update your website to Craft CMS 3 by Lauren Swarbrick/Abstrakt - 22 Nov 2019

Showcase

Official Case Studies

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

Mixmag Media - Project: mixmag.net by The Rye Agency

Samuelsohn - Project: samuelsohn.com by Digital Surgeons

Showcase

Organizations Using Craft

An Event Apart

Atlassian: Design

BigCommerce

Confab Events

Grill'd

iDE Global

Medialoot

Mixmag Media

Outreach

Pingdom

Samuelsohn

Visit Victoria: Corporate

Community

Meetups - Find a local Craft meetup.

Slack - Join the Slack group dedicated to Craft CMS discussion.

Community

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

Resources

Plugins

Getting Started with Craft Plugin Development with Ben Croker by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

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

Resources

Presentations

The Art Of Plugin Development by Ben Croker - 27 Sep 2018

Resources

Performance and Testing

Large websites and performance in Craft CMS by Jason Mayo/MadeByShape - 2 Apr 2017

Resources

Presentations

Twig Super Power Roundup by Jason Mayo - 1 Nov 2018

Resources

Content Migrations

Add users to Craft with content migrations by Joren Van Hee - 28 Oct 2018

Showcase

Organizations Using Craft

Bill Nye

Dialpad

Guy Fieri

Mini: Miles Ahead

Naughty Dog

Nissin Foods

Reddit Inc.

Resources

Presentations

Building a Smarter Craft Commerce Website by Stephen Callender - 27 Sep 2018

Design Processes and Systems in Craft by Courtney Bradford - 27 Sep 2018

How to Migrate Legacy Content to Craft Without Losing Your Sanity by James Greig - Sep 28 2018

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

Resources

Podcasts

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

Dot All 2018 Conference Recap & Analysis, Live from Berlin! - The dev​Mode​.fm crew recaps the Dot All 2018 Con­fer­ence in Berlin.

Resources

Podcasts

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

Resources

Dev Tools

Craft 3 Multi-environmentstars75 - Craft 2 Versionstars83 - Efficient and flexible multi-environment config for Craft CMS.

Resources

Getting Started

Craft CMS 3 Orientation Guide by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 31 July 2018

Resources

Templating

Passing data from Twig to JavaScript by Ben Rogerson - 1 Aug 2018

Resources

Templating

How to check for undefined variables by Ben Rogerson - 24 July 2018

Resources

Front End

Language switcher for Craft 3 by Jan D'Hollander - 25 July 2018

Community

Discord - The official Discord community for Craft CMS.

Resources

Praises

Craft CMS Vs WordPress: Why Choose Craft? - 19 June 2018

Resources

Templating

Responsive tables in Craft by Jan D'Hollander - 10 July 2018

Resources

Performance and Testing

Debug Tool in Craft 3: Here’s all you need to know about it by Galaxy Weblinks - 2 July 2018

Resources

Getting Started

How To Get Started With SEO In Craft CMS by Galaxy Weblinks - 22 June 2018

Resources

Templating

SVG Sprites and Twig Macros in Craft CMS by Sean Smith/Caffeine Creations - 29 June 2018

Resources

Performance and Testing

Profiling your Website with Craft CMS 3’s Debug Toolbar by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 9 Apr 2018

Community

CraftQuest - Unlimited access to Craft training (and more).

Resources

Publications

Introduction to Craft CMSstars81 by Jérôme Coupé/Webstoemp (on Github)

Resources

Templating

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

Resources

Praises

Why Craft? by Jérôme Coupé/Webstoemp - 17 Jun 2015

Resources

Security

Enforcing better passwords in Craft CMS - Rias

Critical Updates and Craft CMS by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 2 Sep 2016

Security and Craft CMS by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 22 Apr 2016

Showcase

Organizations Using Craft

Wildbit

Hootsuite

Sonos

Community

Envato Tuts+ - Find videos and online courses to help you learn.

Resources

Templating

Filters in Twig and Craft by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Resources

Commerce

Introduction to Craft Commerce II by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 12 Feb 2016

Resources

Content

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

Resources

Control Panel

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

Resources

Craft 3

An initial look at Craft 3 by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 5 Aug 2016

Resources

Development

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

Resources

Getting Started

Craft CMS 3 Manual Installation by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - 5 Apr 2018

Resources

Plugins

Craft 3 Plugin Development - Controllers & Variables by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 7 Apr 2017

Migrating a website with plugins from Craft 2 to Craft 3 by Ben Parizek/Straight Up Craft - 4 May 2018

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

Resources

Presentations

Craft 3 Plugin Development by Brandon Kelly - 26 Apr 2017

Crafting Modern SEO by Andrew Welch - 23 Oct 2017

Designers Guide to Craft CMS Plugins - by Jason Mayo - 3 Nov 2016

Dot All 2017 Keynote by Brandon Kelly - 23 Oct 2017

Intro to Craft by Philip Zaengle - 29 Apr 2016

Intro to Craft 3 by Brandon Kelly - 26 Apr 2017

What’s the Deal with Craft CMS? by Brandon Kelly - 21 Apr 2016

Working with Craft Commerce by Jason Mayo - 2 Nov 2017

Official Links

Website - craftcms.com

Partners - craftcms.com/partners

Licence Management - id.craftcms.com

Repository - github.com/craftcms/cmsstars2.7k

Community

Facebook - Like the official Craft CMS Facebook page.

Issues & Feedback - Post feature ideas and bug reports.

Mijingo - Video courses and how-to articles for learning Craft.

Professionals - Find folks who are skilled and passionate about working with Craft.

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

Straight Up Craft - Tutorials, plugin directory, event listings and more.

Twitter - Follow the conversation, official community hashtag is #craftcms.

Plugins

Craft 3 Plugins

Submit Craft 3 Plugins

Craft 2 Plugins

Plugin Factory

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.

Resources

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

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

Resources

Commerce

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

Fundamentals of Craft Commerce by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo - Paid

Resources

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

Resources

Content Migrations

Using Content Migrations in Craft 3 by Matt Shearing/A Digital - 23 Feb 2018

Resources

Craft 3

11 Things You Need to Know About Craft 3 by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft 3 Command Line by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft 3: What You Need to Know by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Resources

Element API

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

Creating an Element API in Craft by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Resources

Environments

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

Resources

Front End

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

Resources

Getting Started

20 Principles for Craft CMS by Knut Melvær - 30 Sep 2017

Setting up a New Craft CMS 3 Project by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 12 Jan 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

Resources

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

Resources

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

Resources

Modules

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

Resources

Performance and Testing

A/B Split Testing with Nginx & Craft CMS by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 29 Nov 2017

Speed up your Craft CMS Templates with Eager Loading by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 21 Dec 2017

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

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

Resources

Plugins

3 Things to Know About Craft Plugin Development by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Craft Plugins in Craft 3 by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Inspiration for Your First Craft Plugin 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

Plugins in Craft 3 by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Resources

Publications

The Guide to Craft CMS Development by Ryan Masuga

The Ultimate Craft CMS vs WordPress Guide by Ryan Masuga

Resources

Security

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

Hashing Redirects in Craft by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Resources

Taxonomies

Using Categories in Craft CMS by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

Resources

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

Handling Errors Gracefully in Craft CMS by Andrew Welch/nystudio107 - 20 Oct 2017

Key Value Arrays in Twig by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

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

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

Resources

Integration

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

Resources

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

Resources

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

Resources

Tutorials

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

Contact Form in Craft CMS by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

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

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'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

Resources

Podcasts

Craft.Podcast - A voice for the #CraftCMS community.

Craft CMS 3 with Pixel & Tonic Founder Brandon Kelly! - Get an insider’s view of the the devel­op­ment of Craft CMS 3.

Talk­ing Craft CMS 3 RC1! - The inau­gur­al episode of the dev​Mode​.fm pod­cast.

Resources

Dev Tools

Craft CLIstars142 - Command line interface for Craft CMS 2.

Craft CMS Bootstrapstars4 - Streamline Craft CMS bootstrapping and configuration.

Craft CMS Dockerstars35 - Get started playing with Craft CMS 3 in a few command lines with Docker.

Craft Scriptsstars349 - Shell scripts to manage common tasks between Craft CMS environments.

Craftmanstars127 - To help speed set up and start a new Craft CMS installation smoothly.

Crafty Vagrantstars58 - A boilerplate dev environment for jump-starting Craft CMS projects.

Generator Craft Installstars57 - Yeoman generator for Craft CMS installs.

Happy Lager Demo Site - A fork of the Craft CMS demo site, updated for Craft 3.

Nginx Craftstars280 - 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

Organizations Using Craft

Agatha Christie

Associated Press: Blog - Plus the Insights website.

Atkins

City of Oakland

Dalai Lama

Duck Brand

Emily Carr University

Field Notes - Uses Craft Commerce.

Foursquare for Business

Icon Motorsports

Intel: Managed Service Providers

Klipsch

LA Marathon

Layer Tennis - A Coudal Partners production sponsored by Adobe.

Naviance

Netflix: Media Center

PBS Kids Games - Craft powers the APIs used for the app.

PBS Parents

Princeton Theological Seminary

ProPublica

SalesforceIQ

Stanford Research Park

Stearns & Foster

Yale Environment 360

Community

Craft Cookbook - Quick solutions to common Craft CMS problems.

Craft Link List - Curated publication collecting interesting links.

CraftX - Open source site built on Craft 3, and community of web professionals hosting hangouts.

Community

Work With Craft - Dedicated job board aimed to connect employers with Craft professionals.