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A prac­ti­cal map of the AI ecosys­tem around Craft CMS 5 in 2026: edi­tor-fac­ing plu­g­ins, agent tool­ing like MCP servers and Side­kick, and mak­ing your site AI-ready with GEO and llms.txt.

Com­pre­hen­sive sta­tis­tics on the Craft CMS plu­g­in ecosys­tem, track­ing 1,270 active plu­g­ins across 477 devel­op­ers with 730,715 total installs. Data includes plu­g­in dis­tri­b­u­tion, pric­ing mod­els, ver­sion sup­port, release fre­quen­cy, and cat­e­go­ry break­downs. The store shows 64% free plu­g­ins, aver­age 4.9‑star rat­ings, and most plu­g­ins sup­port mul­ti­ple Craft ver­sions.

Image Col­ors is a Craft CMS plu­g­in that auto­mat­i­cal­ly extracts dom­i­nant col­or palettes from images across six regions, offer­ing weight­ed col­ors, focal point aware­ness, and mul­ti­ple access meth­ods includ­ing a field type, Twig API, and GraphQL sup­port. Fea­tures include auto­mat­ic extrac­tion on upload, asset index swatch­es, and a con­sole com­mand for bulk pro­cess­ing. Free to use and com­pat­i­ble with Craft 5.

Pro­duc­tion-ready Claude Code skills, agents, and project tem­plates for Craft CMS 5 devel­op­ment. Includes tools for plugin/​module devel­op­ment, site devel­op­ment, con­tent mod­el­ing, and Twig tem­plates. Install via Claude Code Plu­g­in mar­ket­place or Ver­cel Skills CLI for auto­mat­ed set­up and con­text-aware assis­tance.

Moritz L’Hoest shares his default config/general.php for new Craft CMS projects. He explains spe­cif­ic set­tings and why he prefers them, offer­ing a prac­ti­cal start­ing point.

Con­nects Craft CMS to AI assis­tants. It pro­vides AI tools to explore con­tent and schema, enabling faster, accu­rate devel­op­ment by under­stand­ing your unique con­tent mod­el.

Pre­vents brute force pass­word attacks on the Craft CMS con­trol pan­el by track­ing failed login attempts per IP address and block­ing access after a con­fig­urable thresh­old.

Craft CMS’s secu­ri­ty overview details their com­mit­ment to time­ly updates. It out­lines the process for report­ing, triag­ing, and dis­clos­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties.

Con­fig­ure Claude Code with project con­text via CLAUDE​.md so it stops guess­ing about your Craft ver­sion, name­space con­ven­tions, and local envi­ron­ment.

Head­less Craft CMS can be com­pli­cat­ed — but not any­more! The Craft Query API plu­g­in by Samuel Reichör makes Craft’s query builder acces­si­ble across any fron­tend. You don’t have to use GraphQL or REST API to cre­ate head­less web­sites with Craft CMS.

Every­thing you need to know about con­fig­ur­ing alter­na­tive texts for images in Craft CMS for opti­mal acces­si­bil­i­ty and author expe­ri­ence.

Build­ing a small val­i­da­tion rule to cov­er WCAG Col­or con­trast rules, with some help from Claude Code

Ever won­dered what exact­ly a ​“mod­ule” is? In this post, we’ll be tak­ing a deep-dive into what a mod­ule is in Craft, how to cre­ate one from scratch and…

Pro­vides secu­ri­ty patch­es for out-of-date Craft CMS installs — craftcm­s/se­cu­ri­ty-patch­es

The Word­Press project is at a cross­roads, a per­son­al per­spec­tive on the cur­rent Word­Press con­tro­ver­sy and the impact this may have on the indus­try as a whole.

When man­ag­ing cron jobs in Lin­ux, ensur­ing that only one instance of a script runs at any giv­en time… Tagged with lin­ux, cron­jobs, sys­temad­min­is­tra­tion, script­ing.

The spe­cif­ic steps required to deploy Craft CMS depend on your host­ing set­up.

Log­ging is essen­tial for leav­ing an audit trail of CMS events. Monolog is a log­ging library that ships with Craft CMS 4.

Stack­Ex­change Q&A about the Asset class.

I’ve been for­mat­ting code by hand in VSCode for months because the twig auto-for­mat­ting was com­plete­ly bro­ken. Here’s how I got it work­ing at last!

Trans­form in the cloud, serve for­ev­er from your own serv­er. A mid­dle ground made pos­si­ble with the new Imgix Down­load Trans­former.

IndigoStack is the local dev envi­ron­ment you will love. It is a native macOS app that will rev­o­lu­tion­ize the way you con­fig­ure and run local web servers on your Mac.

One-click PHP devel­op­ment envi­ron­ment. Zero depen­den­cies. Zero headaches. Lar­avel Devel­op­ment per­fect­ed.

Twig lan­guage sup­port for VS Code. Con­tribute to moetelo/​twiggy devel­op­ment by cre­at­ing an account on GitHub.

A boil­er­plate repos­i­to­ry for Craft CMS, Vite and Tail­wind — darylknight/​boilerplate

This ser­vice can be used with any project type. The exam­ples below are Dru­pal-spe­cif­ic. Con­tri­bu­tions for docs and tests that show this ser­vice work­ing with oth­er project types are appre­ci­at­ed.

A Craft CMS starter project using DDEV for local host­ing and Vite for front-end bundling and HMR. Includ­ed Apple Sil­i­con M1 advice.

MySQL 8.0 dep­re­cat­ed the utf8mb3 char­ac­ter set(opens new win­dow), as well as the use of utf8 as an alias for utf8mb3(opens new win­dow). MySQL rec­om­mends utf8mb4(opens new win­dow) instead, and it’s expect­ed that utf8 will become an alias for utf8mb4 in MySQL 8.1.

In Craft 5, the con­trol pan­el now has a col­lapsi­ble side nav­i­ga­tion. In this short les­son, we cre­ate a Craft mod­ule to ensure the side­bar defaults to…