Latest Perch tutorials, tips & insights

Perch deserves more attention...

Earlier this year @coryetzkorn posted an article about Choosing the Best CMS. It was included in quite a lot of the weekly roundups and got loads of retweets. It’s a good roundup, but after reading it, I couldn’t help thinking why wasn’t Perch included?

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Submitting perch forms using Ajax

A common feature on most perch websites is a contact form. The Perch Forms app makes this easy and it works great, but you can make these forms a bit slicker using AJAX to submit the form data without requiring a full page refresh. In this post we’re going to learn how to hijack the perch forms app, so that our data is submitted using AJAX. We’ll be using jQuery to make the Javascript a bit more accessible.

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Tips & Tricks: Vol 1

This is the first in an ongoing series of posts gathering tips and tricks from the Perch community. Many thanks to all those who contributed.

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Introducing Tips & Tricks

Here on perchd.io, every few months, we’re going to try to pull together some of these tricks and share them with the wider community. FInd out how you can get involved.

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A page for Perchers...

Part of the aim of perchd.io is to help develop a community around Perch, so today we’re launching a new section of this site that does just that.

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Custom function and options

Once you’ve got your head around the basics of perch_content, you can begin to explore more advanced features that are available in custom functions.

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A more in-depth look at perch_content

Perhaps the most simple function in Perch’s arsenal is perch_content. This is used to create editable regions within the CMS and, like perch_layout, it’s one of those things that perchers use everyday.

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