Introduction
Hello folks
It's a bumper issue of the Newsletter this week! There are some great links including a nice review of Perch developments over the year. And a Redactor plugin for inline Perch Assets.
This is the last newsletter for 2018. I hope the holiday season is a good one for everyone.
See you in 2019!
News
Old Perch installs and PHP 7
Make sure that your site is running on PHP 7 or greater because PHP 5.6 security updates are ending at the end of the year. For PHP 7 hosting, you will need to be running Perch 2.8.34 or greater. Otherwise, you won't be able to log in to Perch!
2018 Wrapped | Pipits for Perch
An excellent article reviewing developments in the Perch ecosystem over the last year.
Add-Ons
Redactor plugin: inline Perch Assets
The plugin enables users to upload/select assets from the Perch Assets system. Images are displayed inline in the text box of the Redactor Editor.
See also, this forum post about aligning images with Redactor.
Pipit Catalog 1.3
The new version of the Catalog app adds a “View” button on the product edit form allowing editors to quickly and easily view the product on the site.
Pipit Shortcuts
Pipit Shortcuts, a Perch Runway dashboard widget. It allows you to select menu sections managed in Perch Runway’s Menu Manager to be listed in the widget.
How Do I?
Understanding Custom Editors Config
Perch ships with three in-built editors: MarkItUp, SimpleMDE and Redactor. These are configured in a way that hooks them in with functionality provided by Perch such as Assets. You can, however, specify your own configuration. This is useful for adding additional toolbar plugins and so on.
This is a great explanation of editor configuration methods.
Site Examples
Land and Wave, Adventure Activities in Dorset
Great imagery and video hero sections on this site which uses Perch Shop to sell activity holidays.
Perch Documentation
Perch Keyboard Shortcuts
Did you know? g + a is a keyboard shortcut that will take you to Assets in Perch admin. You need to enable keyboards shortcuts in Settings first but there are several other shortcuts available. I use 'em all the time!
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