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• 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

• 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.

• Craft 4 Plugins
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• 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.

• 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 withsrcset & 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 11 Things You Need to Know About Craft 3 by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo
• Why you should update your website to Craft CMS 3 by Lauren Swarbrick/Abstrakt -22 Nov 2019

• Atomic Deployments Without Tears by Andrew Welch/nystudio107

• 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

• 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

• Craft CMS AJAX Page Transitions withhistory.pushState by Cosmic -1 Feb 2017
• Editing a Front End Form with Matrix by Sean Smith/Caffeine Creations
• Language switcher for Craft 3 by Jan D'Hollander -25 July 2018

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• Using Categories in Craft CMS by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

• 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

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

• Creating an Element API in Craft by Ryan Irelan/Mijingo

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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.

• % Arabica - Project:arabicacoffee.hk byDigital Butter
• Associated Press - Project:blog.ap.org +insights.ap.org byVector Media Group
• Barefoot Contessa - Project:barefootcontessa.com byApartment One &Jonathan Melville
• Grill'd - Project:grilld.com.au byEvolution 7
• iDE Global - Project:ideglobal.org byFlipbox Digital
• Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity - Project:kappaalphatheta.org byTrendyMinds
• McKinnon and Harris - Project:mckinnonharris.com byFoster Made
• Mixmag Media - Project:mixmag.net byThe Rye Agency
• Poki - Project:poki.com by Evermade
• Samuelsohn - Project:samuelsohn.com byDigital 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

• Agatha Christie
• An Event Apart
• Associated Press: Blog - Plus theInsights 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 - UsesCraft Commerce.
• Foursquare for Business
• Grill'd
• Guy Fieri
• Hootsuite
• Icon Motorsports
• iDE Global
• Intel: Managed Service Providers
• Klipsch
• LA Marathon
• Layer Tennis - ACoudal Partners production sponsored byAdobe.
• 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