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News
List, Detail and Beyond
An in-depth, easy-to-read article describing how to set up list-detail pages. It includes smart use of layouts, switch statements, and a description of the templates you need. Great post by Hussein Al Hammad.
Perch Resource Wiki
This Wiki is intended for code examples relating to Perch and Perch Runway. Please feel free to contribute. I have started this Wiki mainly for myself as a reference tool. But felt it may help others when they were starting out with Perch and Perch Runway.
Add-Ons
Perch Dashboard Links Widget:
This is a Perch CMS dashboard widget that displays a list of links. Links are added by a user in the Perch admin Settings page.
Code
Runway Tip: Simple list/detail with dynamic title and 404 check
I do this for a lot of my sites, so I thought I'd post it here for reference. This is used for a URL structure where /subpage is the list URL and /subpage/name-of-item is the detail URL.
How Do I?
Site Examples
Platinum Turf Group
Fully responsive built on Boilerplate layout. CSS grid with a Flexbox fallback. Average load speed on US servers is less than 1.5 seconds for all pages most load in about a second.