Introduction
Hello again
Gosh, Perch is nine years old. That period has just flown by! I remember seeing the initial announcements and wondering about "the really little CMS". I installed it on one of my personal sites and found it very easy to use ... it just made a lot of sense (and still does!)
Some great links this week. Lots of useful stuff to help with your Perch sites.
See you next time...
News
Perch is nine!
To celebrate the occasion, and to highlight just how far Perch has come in that time, here’s nine ways you can use Perch and Perch Runway.
Add-Ons
Font Awesome App
A Perch app to make it possible to add Font Awesome SVG icons via PHP or in a Perch template.
A data table fieldtype for Perch CMS using Handsontable.
A table fieldtype that works in templates and within blocks. Creates a configurable editable data table within the Perch admin and outputs an HTML <table> element.
How Do I?
Using the Template API
Here's how you can build a Perch app that consumes a JSON API and outputs the data using Perch templates.
Adding Predefined Links to Perch Redactor
A quick guide to adding the Predefined Links plugin into the Perch Redactor editor and populating it with the current page tree.
Make it easy for editors to add links to existing pages.
How to make one super social media metatag with Perch
How to one combine Twitter cards, Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol and Google’s schema.org SEO properties in one Perch template. The principle is straightforward. When content values are the same combine into one tag with multiple properties.
Site Examples
Ward Gethin Archer Solicitors
This site uses the Blog and Forms apps and Collections to display and filter content on pages around the site.