Craft CMS

Craft CMS Craft is a flexible, user-friendly CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web and beyond.

I can’t believe I’m this far in and I have not mentioned my current CMS, @craftcms.com! It’s really extensible. I have used it for 6.5 years. I kinda run it headless today, with Eleventy, but it has a very capable theming system!

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A guide to learning Craft CMS in 2025 A guide to learning Craft CMS in 2025

Switched from WordPress to Craft CMS just over a year ago. Steep learning curve at times, but no regrets. Wrote up some of the best resources that helped me get started—hope it’s useful to other newbies too!

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Testing Craft CMS | Viget If you’re building a Craft CMS project and not testing, this post is your practical, no-nonsense starting point.

🧪Curious how to get started with testing Craft CMS (@craftcms.com)? My latest article shows what testing means, why it's important and some no-nonsense jumping off points. ✅

Check it out here! 🔗 www.viget.com/articles/tes...

Guide to Craft CMS for Modern Websites If you're a technical decision maker and are currently evaluating CMS options for your project, below is a detailed list of what you should consider and…

Guide to Craft CMS for Modern Websites craftquest.io/articles/gui...

Introduction to Extending Craft CMS This is a survey-level guide to how to extend Craft CMS. We'll look at the different ways you can extend Craft CMS, compare plugins, private plugins, and…

✅ Course Complete!

The Introduction to Extending Craft CMS course is now live in its entirety on CraftQuest!

Learn the fundamentals of how to go beyond implementation only and start extending Craft CMS with your own modules and plugins. craftquest.io/courses/intr...

YouTube video by Craft CMS What's New in Craft 5.8

What’s new in Craft 5.8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfTn... #CraftCMS

What's New in Craft CMS 5.8 A short overview of Ryan's favorite features in Craft CMS 5.8.

🚀 Craft CMS 5.8 is out. Here are the most important new features you should know about! buff.ly/P3s8t8r #craftcms

Craft 5.8 Released | Craft CMS Craft 5.8 introduces new ways to structure and organize your content.

Craft 5.8 is here!

• Content Block fields
• Generated fields
• Collapsible source headings
• Grouped entry types
• Expand/collapse all blocks
• Entry type search
• Inline element search for relational fields
• Inline entry creation

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✅ All Craft Cloud sites appear to be back up and running. #CraftCMS

Craft Cloud is experiencing... | Craft CMS Welcome to Craft CMS status page for real-time and historical data on system performance.

⚠️ Due to a broad Cloudflare service outage, Craft Cloud sites are currently down. status.craftcms.com/incident/601... #CraftCMS

We’re excited to announce that @rias.be has joined the team! He’s a real artisan, who’s here to help illuminate Craft’s codebase with a collection of eloquent changes. #CraftCMS

Dot One Melbourne 2025 | Craft CMS June 10, 2025  , Melbourne, Australia: Dot One Melbourne is a one-day event to bring together the Australian Craft CMS Community! This year's event will…

Pretty excited to share a couple major Craft 5.8 features at Dot One Melbourne next week craftcms.com/events/dot-o... #CraftCMS

Introduction to Multi-Language Sites with Craft CMS This guide outlines how to create and manage multilingual websites from a single Craft installation. It covers creating sites in different languages,…

🆕 Introduction to Multi-Language Sites with Craft CMS - Follow along as Moritz L'Hoest shares the steps required and information you should know about setting up multi-language sites with Craft CMS. 🇩🇪 craftquest.io/courses/mult... #craftcms

Presenting Sidekick, an AI tool for rapid Craft development AI-based tools have become essential for many modern programmers, which is why we're introducing Sidekick, the most tightly integrated AI tool for Craft…

Presenting Sidekick, a new AI tool for rapid #CraftCMS development... ✨
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GitHub - craftcms/starter-astro Contribute to craftcms/starter-astro development by creating an account on GitHub.

🆕 Get up and running quickly with our new Craft + Astro Starter! 🚀 github.com/craftcms/sta... #CraftCMS

Moving Our Website to Craft CMS • Needmore Designs Blog After two decades on WordPress, we rebuilt our website from scratch with Craft CMS. The result? Lightning-fast pages, perfect Google scores, streamlined…

Recently turned 21 and our own site felt like a Portland Victorian—quirky, overloaded, and dimming the lights when the espresso kicked on. Switched to @craftcms.com, rebuilt lean, pages load in half the time, updating is fun again. Highly recommended.

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Wrote a little bit of a write up on how to access the new CKEditor options for Longform Content in @craftcms.com.

Any questions let me know!

#craftcms #headless #graphql

https://jackwhiting.co.uk/posts/parsing-ckeditor-longform-content-in-craft-cms-with-graphql

Release 4.8.0 · craftcms/ckeditor Added the “Field Limit” field setting, which can be set to a character limit or word limit. (#384) Added the “GraphQL Mode” field setting. (#403) Editor toolbars now have dedicated nested entry cre...

CKEditor for #CraftCMS v4.8.0 is out, with some big improvements:

⚙️ Query nested content via GraphQL
➕ Toolbar buttons for adding nested content
🔖 Bookmarks CKEditor plugin
🔤 Character limit setting
💅 Nicer editor styling

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Beautiful site!

YouTube video by Craft CMS What’s new in Craft 5.7

What’s new in Craft 5.7 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNIb... #CraftCMS

Building Bridges: Inside the Life of a Craft CMS Developer Relations… In this episode of the, Thomas engages with Travis Gertz, a Developer Relations Engineer at Pixel & Tonic, to discuss the latest release of Craft CMS 5.7.…

🎙️ I'm thrilled to share the latest episode of the CraftEntries podcast! This week, I chat with @travisgertz.bsky.social about the exciting updates in #craftcms 5.7 and his work as Developer Relations Engineer 🌟

Also available on Spotify or Apple Podcasts

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Accessibility Updates for Q1 2025 | Craft CMS Learn about the accessibility improvements we’ve made in the last few months.

Accessibility Updates for Q1 2025 #CraftCMS

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Craft 5.7 Released | Craft CMS Craft 5.7 makes working with nested content smoother and more intuitive.

Craft 5.7 is here!

• Copy-and-paste elements
• Duplicate nested elements
• Element UI improvements
• Read-only fields
• Button Group fields
• Icons and colors for option fields
• JSON fields
• GraphQL improvement
• Static entry statuses
• Lots more!

craftcms.com/blog/craft-5... #CraftCMS

Behind the tech: webdna’s Craft CMS work at MWC Barcelona Delivering a unique interactive event experience with great design and Craft CMS development.

How can @craftcms be used to support exhibitions and events? webdna partner @sportscienceagency was invited to demo @vodafone PLAYER.Connect for Vodafone’s 2025 exhibition stand at Mobile World Congress. Read more about the development and design process in our article:

An Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS 5 · Matthias Ott Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design...

✍️ New post: An Inter­net Archive Plu­g­in for Craft CMS 5

#craftcms #plugin #internetarchive #indieweb
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Webmention for Craft CMS 5 · Matthias Ott Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design...

✍️ New post:

Web­men­tion for Craft CMS 5

🎉🥳 – huge thanks to @brandonkelly.io! 🙏🤗💚

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A business case for Craft versus WordPress 2025 Nine years ago, I wrote an a business case in response to a client who wanted to understand why our agency chose Craft CMS over WordPress. Given my renewed experience with Craft recently, I felt it wa...

Nine years ago, I wrote a business case to help a client understand why our agency chose Craft over WordPress. Given my renewed experience with Craft and the situation in the WordPress community, I decided to revisit the subject for 2025. @craftcms.com

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Unlocking Real-Time Reactive Search in Craft CMS with Datastar - SuperGeekery This blog post showcases creating a reactive search page in Craft CMS using the Datastar plugin. Datastar, a lightweight JavaScript framework, provides real-time search functionality without necessita...

I've published a post about using Datastar and the Datastar for Craft CMS plugin. Thank you to Ben Croker for looking it over and offering suggestions along the way. #craftcms #datastar supergeekery.com/blog/unlocki...

WordPress-to-Craft CMS I share my experience of converting my WordPress site into Craft CMS by using the WP import plugin and starter project from the makers of Craft.

I wrote an article about converting my WordPress site to Craft CMS. This project allowed me to apply what I had learned/relearned by taking courses on CraftQuest. I hope this will help other WordPress developers explore this option. @craftcms.com @craftquest.io

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Our CKEditor plugin (plugins.craftcms.com/ckeditor) or Vizy (plugins.craftcms.com/vizy) are the closest things, but neither is especially concerned with *layout* out of the box, so not visual like Gutenberg.