Introduction
Hi folks
Perch fact: Did you know? It's possible to use the old English word 'betwixt' instead of 'between' for the match attribute in Perch conditionals. I rediscovered this recently when browsing the Perch core code (as you do). I think this is a 'hidden feature' :-)
Anyway, in this week's newsletter, there's a fab write-up of a new Perch Runway site by Graham Street. I love to read about a site's Perch development because it often highlights new functionality. So, if you are thinking about a site write-up .... I encourage you to put it out there!
See you next time
News
Streets Ahead and Kingfisher Design launch All About Magazines for Holt Publishing
Here's a great write-up of a new Perch Runway site for a local magazines group in the UK. The site uses the Perch Forms add-on with a custom form handler to write form submissions to the database so that, for example, local business information can be displayed on the site. The site also has a 'switch' that changes the site's content over to the next month's data.
Being part of the IndieWeb
Want to discuss and suggest IndieWeb features for Perch? Here's where you can do that.
How Do I?
Videos
Site Examples
All About Magazines
A directory site for local community magazines powered by Perch Runway. As described in News item above.
Perch Documentation
Correcting Links with the replace attribute
How do I make sure people enter correct links to a website address? Content editors sometimes forget to add a full website address including the http:// leaving you with broken links on the site. You can use the
replaceattribute on a template tag to ensure that you end up with an http:// at the beginning of a URL
See what is available in a template
The <perch:showall />tag is incredibly useful for displaying all available fields in a template (including Perch-generated fields). I used it last week to find out how to order items in a multiple item region when there was no immediately obvious field to order by.