The MonthlyFirehose

May, 2023

Flat Camp 🏕️

Last week we hosted Flat Camp, our first ever Statamic non-conference, up in the mountains of North Carolina. It was magical, exceeding our wildest dreams. It was an incredible experience spending a few days eating, drinking, relaxing and hiking with the community.

We'd like to thank everyone who traveled from all around the world (from 10 countries!) for putting your trust in us and the idea to replace the formal lecture setting with more opportunities for conversation and relationship building. It worked, and it was life-changing in delightful and unexpected ways. 💜

We're working on compiling photos, videos, and stories from the event and we'll be sharing them soon. Oh, and next year we're doing it in Europe.

Statamic 4

Earlier this month we unleashed Statamic 4, a new major version of Statamic.

Statamic v4 graphic with Buckshot Thunderstride, Statamic's new mascot

This release features lots of UI and UX improvements throughout the Control Panel, the modernization of our entire code base, and lots more.

Read all about it in our announcement blog post or watch the video highlighting new features and improvements.

Spin Up Statamic

Andrew Welch, well-known developer and content creator in the Craft CMS world unveiled a new tool at Flat Camp, Spin Up Statamic. It leverages Github Codespaces to spin up a Statamic site in the cloud, in your browser, in seconds.

There are some compelling use-cases for it:

Personalized and completely editable Statamic demo sites
Shipping a self-contained Statamic site to others
Providing working example code & projects to others
Spinning up a local Statamic project using someone else's composer.json for support

This is an awesome new tool for the Statamic community, and we're working to integrate it more closely with our documentation, starter kits, and marketplace.

The Antlers book is out! 🦌

The book about Antlers, Statamic's templating language, is now available from John Koster 🎉

Here's John's summary:

"Antlers: Building Beautiful Websites with Statamic" approaches Statamic website development through the lens of the Antlers templating language. Written by the creator of Antlers Runtime and Antlers Toolbox, this book covers common tasks, strings, loops, nuanced language features, and more to make you more productive building Statamic websites.

Get the eBook on Leanpub (free sample available) or even a printed copy on lulu for your bookshelf. 📚

Newest Starter Kits

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Newest Addons

Icons Plus

Search over 200,000 open source icons at once! No more downloading or copying and pasting SVGs. Search it, select it, use it.

Bluesky Comments for Statamic

Attach a Bluesky thread to your Entries for a commenting system managed through Bluesky.

Instagram Business API

Statamic Instagram Business API lets you fetch data via the Instagram Business API into your Statamic site.

AI Alt Text

AI-powered alt text generation for Statamic assets using OpenAI's Vision-API

Loupe Search Driver

Local SQLite search engine integration

Entriloquent

Statamic addon that lets you use entries of any collection similar to how you use Laravel models

Supersonic

Supersonic is a command palette for Statamic to take your efficiency to the next level.

Raster

Rasterise views and partials to images by simply adding a tag and fetching the URL.

Short URLs

Short Urls is a Statamic addon for managing short urls in CP.

Resend Form Submissions

Adds a button to the submissions list that allows you to resend the email for the form submission

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