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Introduction

Hello!

Thanks for signing up to the Perchology newsletter. I'm a web developer who builds sites with Perch. I hope the newsletter will contain useful links to help with your Perch CMS projects.

This newsletter is independent of Perch themselves but it has their support.

Clive Walker - Perchology

Tips And Tricks

Handy Tips for Perch CMS developers

A list of handy Perch CMS tips and snippets that Philip Gwynne has found useful. For example, a way of including perch:content from a region into a form; this is a nice way of customising the form with pre-populated form fields.

philipgwynne.com

Add-Ons

Store Locator/Finder for Perch CMS

Perch Locator is an add-on that plots places on a map (which can also be searchable by address). Locations are added individually or imported via CSV file.

It's great to see apps like this that extend the functionality of Perch. Nice work!

github.com

Code

Perch Cookie Consent

A Perch template for adding a cookie notice to a site.

github.com

How Do I?

Blog URL Rewrites in Perch CMS

Iain Fergus describes some of the common rewrite rules he uses to achieve clean URLs with Perch.

iainfergus.co.uk

How to Show Related Posts with Perch Blog

I wanted to display related articles from the same category on my single post page. Here's how I have done that with the Perch Blog add-on.

cvwdesign.com

Getting Started with Perch. A Free Minimal Responsive Theme

An older post but a nice one-page responsive theme and a good description of how to use it on a new Perch install (in this and follow-up article).

cliftwalker.co.uk

Perch Documentation

Installing Editors

You don't have to stick with the editors that Perch provides. You can install another editor in a few easy steps.

grabaperch.com