CraftQuest contributor and friend, Ben Croker, recently released the Spark plugin that brings Datastar support to Craft CMS Twig templates. What's Datastar? Check out the tutorial below! 👇
Lots more new stuff this week from CraftQuest. Thank you for your support!
🚚 Migrating to Craft CMS
Have you inherited a WordPress project that needs to a secure CMS with stable leadership? Last week, I redid my Migrating to Craft CMS to match changes in Craft 5, Feed Me, and WordPress.
The course covers everything you need to think about before migrating to Craft CMS, and how to prepare export data from WordPress, so it's ready to import via Feed Me.
Spark, by Ben Croker at Put Your Lights On, brings together Datastar and Craft CMS.
In this excerpt from the CraftQuest on Call livestream, Andrew Welch recreated a live search feature as an example project while giving a gentle introduction to Spark and Datastar use in Twig templates.
Sometimes you need to bring in external data and display it in your templates. In this excerpt, from a CraftQuest on Call livestream, Andrew and I show how to connect to an external database from Twig templates.
In Craft 5, CKEditor is now at the front and center of the Craft CMS content authoring experience, so knowing how to extend and modify it is a core competency as a Craft CMS developer.
I just updated the Customizing CKEditor course with three new videos on creating a custom plugin for CKEditor and adding it Craft CMS.
This course teaches you core concepts for customizing CKEditor, which help you make important customizations to your client and customer projects.
All the code snippets are now up-to-date, and I created a new branch of the Craft 5 Starter project that has Vite already integrated and working. Follow the instructions in the readme, and off you go! 🚀
I opened a Discord server for CraftQuest premium subscribers. The link to join is available on the Community page of the site. Make sure you're logged into your account and then join us in the Discord server!
Why Discord?
I wanted a way to chat with the CraftQuest community that wasn't over email or other platforms. This isn't a replacement for the official Craft Discord server; it's a complement to it that, I hope, will be valuable to CraftQuest premium subscribers.
💡Craft 5 Learning Materials
Whether you're new to Craft or just to Craft 5, these materials will help get you on your way. They also make a great list to pass along to colleagues new to the CMS!
