Craft CMS
A curated collection of awesome Craft CMS plugins, articles, resources, and community showcases.
What is Craft CMS?
craftcms/awesome is the official curated list of resources for Craft CMS. It aggregates plugins, articles, tutorials, videos, tools, and case studies to help developers, designers, and content managers build and maintain websites with the Craft CMS platform. It solves the problem of fragmented information by providing a single, community-vetted source for learning and tool discovery.
Craft CMS developers, plugin creators, agency teams, and content managers seeking to deepen their knowledge, find reliable plugins, or discover best practices for building and optimizing Craft-powered websites.
Developers choose this resource because it is the official, maintained collection endorsed by the Craft CMS team, ensuring quality and relevance. It saves significant research time by centralizing the ecosystem's most valuable learning materials and tools in one constantly updated repository.
Overview
A collection of awesome Craft CMS plugins, articles, resources and shiny things.
Use Cases
Best For
- Craft CMS developers looking for recommended plugins and extensions
- Teams onboarding new members to the Craft CMS ecosystem
- Finding advanced tutorials on Craft CMS performance optimization and security
- Discovering real-world case studies and organizations using Craft CMS
- Learning Craft CMS plugin development through curated guides and videos
- Staying updated with community events, podcasts, and development tools
Not Ideal For
- Projects requiring off-the-shelf, pre-designed themes without custom development
- Teams needing 24/7 official support or guaranteed SLA-backed resources
- Developers looking for a minimal, opinionated starter kit rather than a comprehensive resource dump
- Content managers who prefer WYSIWYG page builders over structured content modeling
Pros & Cons
Pros
As the official list endorsed by the Craft CMS team, resources are vetted for relevance and accuracy, reducing time spent sifting through low-quality content.
It maps the entire Craft CMS landscape, from plugins and dev tools to in-depth articles and real-world case studies, serving as a one-stop hub.
Open to contributions via GitHub, ensuring the list stays updated with new plugins, tutorials, and best practices as the ecosystem evolves.
Includes hands-on tools like Craft Scripts for environment management and Docker setups, directly aiding local development and deployment workflows.
Cons
The sheer volume of links—hundreds across articles, videos, and plugins—lacks guided learning paths, making it difficult for newcomers to find a starting point.
As a community-maintained list, some resources may become outdated or broken over time, requiring users to verify links and information independently.
While curated, it doesn't include user ratings or detailed reviews for plugins and tools, forcing developers to trial them without community feedback.
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