Introduction
Hello folks
It's been a great few weeks for Perch links and it's fab to read new posts appearing from Perch users. There's some fantastic work out there!
Thanks for reading .... and if you have published a post about Perch, launched a Perch site, or have some code that would help Perchers, let me know.
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News
Perch CMS v Craft CMS - Which is Better?
A comparison of Perch and Craft CMS. I've not used Craft but I like this assessment from someone who has used both systems.
I wanted to write a post that tried to summarise the two without becoming boring. It highlights the advantages and disadvantages of both, and thus helps you choose between the two.
New search engine for Perch Assets
We developed a new search engine for perch assets for one of our clients. You can search by: Asset file name By Bucket name By Date uploaded. You can also preview the asset before downloading it It will also show you what page the asset resides on the site.
Add-Ons
Catalog v1.2: manually reorder your products
An update for the Catalog app that adds drag and drop product re-ordering.
How Do I?
User-filtered Product Listing
Here's a tutorial showing how to set up a product listing page with Perch Shop. This allows the user to filter by category and brand and by more than one value.
Exclude unused categories in a category list
This is a great thread in the forum with two suggestions how to filter and display categories and exclude categories without items.
Site Examples
Qvoice, London based Voice Over Agency
Uses an advanced filter search and cookies for shortlist functionality.