News
Hand-coded Perch site vs WordPress
A cautionary tale (for clients) of how a bloated WordPress-powered site can hurt the visitor experience
It is difficult to compares sites in this way because the skillsets will be different. Yet, here's a description of how a site was changed from Perch to WordPress.
Relative Paths Podcast, Episode 46, CSS Grid Layout and Perch with Rachel Andrew
We talked about the origin of Grid, what we’ll be able to do with it and when it’s going to be ready to use (sooner than we realised). We also talked about how she got started as a developer, her work with the W3C CSS Working Group, and of course Perch CMS.
Code
Gallery album social sharing image
Here's how to pull an image from the Gallery add-on album.php page into page attributes for use as social media sharing image.
Videos
Perch 3 Video Tutorials
All new video tutorials. These videos are a great way of getting started with Perch and learning more about the system.
Site Examples
Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation
This site has a range of event formats including lists, calendar views, and full pages. It's a nice example that uses the Perch Events add-on.