What are your go-to kirby add-ons?

[HYR]

As I start to get more familiar with Kirby I find myself wondering, what are your go-to kirby add-ons? I use the term “add-ons” so as not to limit it to plugins. I know there are a bunch of gems out there. Perhaps it’s a kirbytext extension or a panel field or a custom plugin you copy from project to project?

As I’m starting a new project I found myself using the following so far:

• Kirby CLI
• Cachebuster Plugin
• Kirby Image Shrink Plugin
• Log (a simple plugin I made to log different activity out to files)

Here are a number I want to try out soon (in no particular order) when I get some time to see how they improve my development workflow:

• ShopKit Plugin
• ImageKit Plugin
• Guggenheim Plugin
• Auto Git Plugin
• Kirby Modules Field
• Kirby Gallery Field
• Focus Plugin
• Kirby - KRB

What are the add-ons you’ve found indispensable?

[jenstornell]

I almost only use my own plugins, but I also have some favourites that are not my own.

Favourites:

• Controlled list
• Kirby color list
• Kirby modules field
• Kirby modules
• Kirby enhanced textarea
• Geo plugin
• Kirby calendar board
• Kirby focus

Want to try OR try more:

• Kirby image shrink Plugin
• Kirby Logger
• Clone-page field
• Relative date
• Kirby dominant color
• Kirby YAKME
• Kirby gallery
• Kirby Imagekit
• Kirby architect
• Kirby quickselect
• Shopkit
• Kirby builder
• Readingtime

[pedroborges]

I have used:

• Auto Git
• Algolia (for indexing only)
• Cachebuster
• Color List field
• Modules
• Modules field
• Page Lock
• Subpage List field
• Uniform

I want to try out:

• AutoID
• Blade Templates
• Patterns
• Reading Time

I have created for myself (not released):

• Sitemap.xml
• AWS S3 uploader
• Podcast.rss

[sylvainjule]

My “Kirby boilerplate” nowadays includes the following :

• An enhanced .htaccess (mostly character encoding, compression and caching settings taken from h5bp’s recs)
• A gulpfile.js that deals with all the uglification / minification of the assets.
• The Cachebuster plugin that greatly replaces gulp-rev
• A image.upload / image.replace big hook combining Image Shrink+ TinyPNG + Dominant color + Some custom infos I get from images.
• A panel.page.create hook that populates a hidden ‘uniqueid’ field so that I can easily target a specific page later.
• Snippetfield I find myself using quite regularly.
• Selector I use every time image selection is on the table.
• The tabs field to keep everything in order.
• Static Translations and Translations in case of multilanguage.

[HYR]

Thanks for sharing these guys! There are quite a few listed I wasn’t even aware of. I’m going to have some fun checking these out.

If anyone else cares to share, please do!

[Malvese]

Plugins I use on pretty much every site, in no particular order:

• Visual Markdown Editor
• Focus Plugin
• Uniform
• Tabs

Also used: Colorlist, Comments, oEmbed

Want to try: Auto Git, Cachebuster, Modules or Builder (I believe both can be useful for different use cases), Image Shrink, Static Translations and Translations for a site I’ll have to switch to multilanguage later this year.

[judbd]

I try to not use to many plugin:

• KirbyTexRaw (hopefully a native function soon)
• Uniform
• Phpmailer driver
• From (tag)

Want to try: all of the plugins mentionned in this topic