“Blueprints, Fields and Fieldsets in Statamic”
A cinema website gave me a practical way to introduce Statamic’s content structure, building movie details with Blueprints, Fields and Fieldsets at PHP Adelaide.
2 Aug 2024
1 min read
Caching Laravel routes with Statamic's static cache
Custom Laravel routes can still belong to a Statamic website, and I found a way to give their rendered output static caching while drawing content from an external application.
15 Jul 2024
7 min read
Advanced static cache usage with Statamic and an external Laravel app
Keeping time-sensitive content fresh across a Laravel app and a Statamic website led me to selective cache clearing, while retaining the benefits of full static pages.
8 Jul 2024
8 min read
How to set a custom logo for dark mode in Statamic
Our dark logo disappeared against Statamic’s new dark Control Panel, so I contributed a separate setting that lets each theme use a suitable version while keeping configuration straightforward.
22 May 2024
2 min read
How to use custom Laravel ValidationRule rules in Statamic
Contributing support for Laravel’s newer validation rules opened up more flexible checks in Statamic, including reusable rules that accept their own configuration parameters.
5 Mar 2024
3 min read
How to use Blink to improve complex tag performance in Statamic
Running the same expensive lookup in several tag methods adds up quickly, and Statamic’s Blink cache helped me share the results across related operations within a single request.
9 Feb 2024
4 min read
“Statamic for Laravel Devs” at Laracon AU 2023
My Laracon AU 2023 talk paired a live Statamic demo with lessons from our development workflow, showing how content management can fit inside an existing Laravel app.
14 Dec 2023
3 min read
How to use a scope with a query builder in Statamic
A Feedamic feature request sent me looking at Statamic scopes, and how their reusable query logic could be applied to custom Query Builder instances outside the standard collection tag.
5 Dec 2023
4 min read
Passing runtime data for a Form fieldtype in Statamic
Some form fields need information that only exists when the page loads, so I contributed a way to pass runtime data into templates from the fieldtype’s server-side logic.
28 Nov 2023
3 min read
Hello from Laracon AU
A conversation on a mountain walk became an abstract, then a talk, and suddenly I was in Sydney preparing to share Statamic with the Laravel community at Laracon AU.
15 Nov 2023
2 min read
