The answer depends on the field type. Assets, Categories, Checkboxes, Dropdown, Entries, Matrix, Multi-select, Radio Buttons, Tags, and Users fields each will each appear to be non-empty, even if ...

413 errors occur when the request body is larger than the server is configured to allow. Here’s how you can fix it, depending on your web server: Apache: Set the LimitRequestBody directive in either ...

As of Craft 2, you should be using the new siteUrl config setting. There are two advantages to setting your site URL using this config setting. First, The value can be set on a per-locale basis, in ...

Generally you’ll just want to cache areas of your templates that are going to trigger a lot of database queries, or fetch a lot of data, since those are going to have the biggest hit on your site’s ...

You can do this using image transforms. There are a couple things you’re going to need to consider though: Not every image will necessarily be high-res (e.g. a computer screenshot taken on a non-...

Avoiding unnecessary DB queries is definitely the main thing to watch out for. Here’s an example that came up recently in support: Someone wanted to display the first 6 Matrix blocks in an entry, ...

Twig is great for outputting HTML/XML markup, but it’s not exactly the best option when you just want to output some data as JSON. The Element API plugin aims to make outputting entries (and other ...

You can do this entirely with Twig. First, use the |split filter to split your HTML into an array of paragraphs, on their closing </p> tags: {% set paragraphs = entry.myRichTextField|split('&...

You can either have MySQL select the blocks in a random order using RAND(): {% set blocks = entry.myMatrixField.order('RAND()') %} Or you can shuffle the blocks from Twig instead, using Craft’s ...

You can fetch your categories on the front end using craft.categories, which has a group param that can be used to filter categories by a given group handle. {% set categories = craft.categories....

If the “loop” is an ElementCriteriaModel object, then you can grab the first element using .first(): {% set blogPost = craft.entries.section('blog').order('posdDate desc').first() %} -- {% set image =...

That’s what getUrl() returns if the transform hasn’t been generated yet. When the browser requests that URL, Craft will generate the transform, and respond with a 302 redirect to the actual image URL. ...

One thing that’s important to remember is that there’s no inherent relationship between your templates and sections. Any template can show any entry from any section. So there’s no such thing as the “...

You can get the current locale’s name via craft.i18n.getCurrentLocale(). {% set locale = craft.i18n.getCurrentLocale() %} {{ locale.name }} That will output the name using the current locale’s ...

Sortof – you can find out what an image’s width would be with a transform applied to it via AssetFileModel’s - getWidth() and getHeigth() <img src=" {%- if image.getWidth(transform) > 970 -%...

I would create a Single with the URI set to "404", and also set its Template to "404". That entry will automatically get loaded if you go to http://example.com/404, and load your 404.html template, so ...

Rather than trying to store multiple stats together in a single block, another option would be to make a "Stat" (singular) block type, which only holds a single stat, and just have authors create as ...

Create a div with whatever contents you want in the modal, and with a class "modal". Then create a new Garnish.Modal object with it: var $div = $('<div class="modal">...</div>'); var ...

Saving Matrix fields programmatically got a lot easier in Craft 3 thanks to all the content refactoring. use craft\elements\Entry; use craft\elements\MatrixBlock; // Figure out the section & ...

If you go into your Category Group’s settings and set the following settings: Craft 2 Top Level URL Format: {slug} Nested URL Format: {parent.uri}/{slug} Craft 3 Category URI Format: {parent.uri}/{...

BaseElementModel::getContent() will return the element’s ContentModel. It has two purposes: To store the element’s data from the craft_content table table when fetching elements from the DB. To store ...

If you‘ve got a multi-lingual site (or even if you don’t), you can pass variables into strings with the |t filter: {{ "Welcome back, {name}"|t( {'name': currentUser.name} ) }} (See http://...

There are actually two issues with this approach. The first, and the direct reason you’re getting that Twig error, is that templates that extend another template can only output things within {% block ...

If you want to explicitly set the mime type from your template, you can do it with Craft's {% header %} tag: {% header "Content-Type: application/json" %} If it is already set via this method, Craft ...

If you’re comfortable with PHP, Craft has some plugin APIs that make creating content relatively painless. For example, EntriesService::saveEntry().

It’s currently only possible via direct manipulation of the entries in your database. You will first need to visit your sections table to determine the desired section ID, and then the entrytypes ...

Yep, you can do that with Craft.createElementSelectorModal(): var myModal = Craft.createElementSelectorModal('Entry', { resizable: true, storageKey: 'someUniqueID', ...

You can get the current template’s name like so: {{ _self.getTemplateName() }}

You can do that using MySQL’s cast() function: craft.entries.section('mySection').order('cast(title as unsigned)') Alternatively, you might get better performance if you create an actual Number ...

For the Live Preview button to show up, two criteria must be met: Your section’s “Entries in this section have their own URLs” setting must be checked Your section’s “Entry Template” setting must be ...