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Introducing Varnish Purger for Craft CMS

The rise of AI crawlers has had a massive impact on smaller websites - more traffic means a higher bandwidth bill and a worse experience for regular human users. Over the past 6 months, I've seen this become a bigger and bigger issue at my day job and I've been actively working on our larger projects and with our hosting partner to improve performance. That same hosting partner bundles a Varnish option into their offering and we weren't really taking advantage of it so I decided to see if I could write a plugin that would make this easier to do.

Schema Builder API for SEO Fields

Until now, schema rendering in SEO Fields was all-or-nothing: the plugin auto-generates a basic JSON-LD schema based on your section-level settings, or you disable it entirely and roll your own. There was no middle ground — no way to set a main schema type in a template and then progressively add to it from includes.That changes with the new Schema Builder API released in version 5.4.0 .

dotall 2025 Lison: Craft goes Laravel

Craft 6 will be LaravelThe biggest announcement from the Pixel & Tonic team was that Craft CMS will be switching frameworks, away from Yii and to Laravel with its 6.0 release. The plan to do this had been announced 2 years ago but during the workshop on Tuesday the team layed out their roadmap a...

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WCAG Color contrast validation in Craft

While talking with 2 colleagues last week, we were discussing a project where the client asked for the option to be able to "theme" certain pages themselves, to match the branding of some of their own future projects. Letting a client choose their own background color probably brings out a bunch of red flags for you - as it did for me.

Craft CMSAccessibility

A fresh start for Easy Address Field

When I first dipped my toe into plugin development during the Craft 2 days, a dedicated field for addresses was the first plugin I released. I made the first commit in October 2017, and it was high time to give the codebase some extra attention.

Subscriptions for Mollie

A feature that has been long requested, and I’m happy to announce it is finally here: you can now set up and receive recurring payments on your Craft CMS website through my Mollie Payments plugin.

Craft CMSMollie

Exports made easy with Element Exporter for Craft CMS

I'm happy to release a first version of my new plugin today: Element Exporter. The plugin tries to take the hassle out of exporting data from your Craft CMS website, and it was built with customizability in mind. Let's have a look!

SEO Fields 4: Schema.org, automatic redirects & updated template functions

A big update for my SEO Fields plugin was just released and in this post I'd like to tell you a bit more about what was added, what was changed and what you need to check before upgrading.

Add shortcuts to Craft's control panel

When building out a site, I often find find myself clicking through to fields, sections and sites repeatedly. To make this a tiny bit easier, I like to add shortcuts to the Control Panel sidebar for quick access to the things I need most often.

Craft CMSTips & tricks

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