Updating CraftQuest to Craft 3.4

Ryan walks through his process for updating CraftQuest to Craft 3.4.

New Functions in Twig and Craft

Ryan and Andrew demo the new Twig functions map, reduce, and filter, and the new attr function in Craft.

Using Structured Data and JSON-LD

Ryan and Andrew review what JSON-LD is and how to use it to improve how Google sees your content.

SEO Audit and Twitter Player Cards

Ryan and Andrew perform a quick SEO audit on CraftQuest, improve thing, and then look at building Twitter player cards.

Coding in the Right Place

Ryan & Andrew talk about the coding layers in Craft, and how to find just the right home for your code when building a project.

Craft Plugin Development Q&A

Ryan is joined by plugin developer Ben Croker to answer common questions about Craft plugin development.

Injecting Environment Variables with Dotenvy

Ryan and Andrew review how to use the Dotenvy plugin to inject variables into an environment.

The DL on dotenv

Ryan and Andrew cover the ins and outs of environment variables, aliases, and more during this livestream.

A Git/Craft CMS Development Workflow

Ryan walks through a typical Git/Craft CMS workflow.

Using Gitflow

Ryan steps through what Gitflow is and how he uses it.

What are Service Workers?

Ryan and Andrew discuss how to use a service worker to pre-cache important pages so they are available even without a network connection.

Using PageSpeed Insights and Lazy Loading Disqus

We review how to use Google PageSpeed Insights tool and then improve the CraftQuest website by lazy loading Disqus.

Nested Navigation via Structure Section

Continuing on with the simple site build, I code a nested on-hover navigation using the Craft nav tag, and more.

Performance Audit and Improvements

Ryan and Andrew look at how to test your site performance and improve TTFB.

GraphQL, NextJS, and Craft CMS with Mark Huot

Ryan is joined by Mark Huot to walk through how to make headless Craft site using GraphQL and Next.js.

Enhancing Performance in Craft with Redis

Ryan and Andrew cover the performance-improving option of implementing Redis to handle sessions in Craft.

Creating a Boilerplate Craft Project

Learn how to build your own custom default Craft project and generate it using `composer create-project`.

Optimizing Images in Craft, Part 2

In part 2 of a short series on optimizing images in Craft, Ryan and Andrew continue with their work. This livestream covers ImageOptimize plugin, webp images, and lazy loading.

Optimizing Images in Craft, Part 1

In part 1 of a short series on optimizing images in Craft, Ryan and Andrew cover a lot ground on why you want to optimize images for different viewports and how that works.

Migration Plugins

Ryan goes into the plugin store and take a look at some new add-ons.

Tower vs. Git SHOWDOWN

Ryan puts the brand new version of Tower side-by-side with Git CLI.

Building a Craft Module

Ryan and Andrew talk about what a Craft module is, when to build one instead of a plugin, and then they build a simple module live.

Quick Look: Visual Studio Code and Craft CMS

Ryan takes a quick look at Visual Studio Code and how you can make it better for Craft CMS development.

Modern SEO

Ryan and Andrew review the major tenants of modern SEO.

Mixing Entries Data and Matrix Data

Ryan codes a page module that includes data from multiple sections and data from a Matrix field.

Deploying Craft CMS

Ryan is joined by Andrew Welch of nystudio107 to talk about deploying Craft CMS.

Building a Blog in Craft CMS

Follow along as I build a simple site using Craft CMS version 3.

Exploring the Craft 3 Plugin Store

Poking around the new Craft 3 plugin store.

Craft Multi-site Walk-Thru, Part 2

The second part of a walk-thru in setting up a multi-site in Craft 3.

Craft Multi-Site Walk-thru, Part 1

The first part of a walk-thru in setting up a multi-site in Craft 3.

Deploying a Craft Site with DeployHQ and Composer

You have your site complete, but how do you deploy it?

The Slowest Git Commit in the World

Ryan gets inside Git and shows how you can manually create a commit in Git.

Craft 3 Remote Volumes with AWS S3

Adding a remote S3 Assets volume in Craft 3.

Craft 3: What You Need to Know

Ryan does a long form live stream about all of the changes in Craft 3.