Introduction
Happy New Year Everyone!
I hope you had a great holiday season. I spent part of it staying in my friends' hotel in Cornwall on the rugged south west coast of the UK. It was a fab break!
In this issue, there's a new app for styling Perch admin and a useful, simple, Redactor customisation config file. There have been quite a few posts about Redactor editor customisation on the Perch Forum so this config file might be just what you need.
Also, if you missed it last time, here's a link to join Perchology Slack which is a community chat for Perchers. It's a replacement for the Perch Chat Slack which closed at the end of last year.
See you next time.
Add-Ons
Admin Styling App for Perch admin
This is a very simple App which allows you to style the admin interface for different clients.
Perch Algolia Sync App
Algolia provides an autocomplete search function for sites. This app does not provide the front end code but syncs your Perch site with Algolia via its API.
Code
Customisation file for the Perch CMS Redactor text editor.
A good example of custom modification of Redactor editor. Shows how to add specific editor buttons.
Perch admin theme.
This theme uses Google's Open Sans font and adds more contrast and visual hierarchy to the Perch UI.
How Do I?
Utilise Perch Production Modes
Here's how to use different production modes for each hosting environment and how to check for the mode in your pages. For example, this could be used to include Google Analytics scripts only on the live site and not on local or staging sites.
Videos
Perch Runway - Managing Content - YouTube
In this new video, Drew from Perch describes two approaches to managing content with Perch Runway. Editing on a page-by-page basis and using Collections.