Studio Espresso

One-man web development & consulting shop, focussing on Craft CMS at the moment. studioespresso.co

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Schema Builder API for SEO Fields

Until now, schema rendering in SEO Fields was all-or-nothing: the plugin auto-generates a basic JSON-LD schema based on your section-level settings, or you disable it entirely and roll your own. There…

Mar 18·4 min read·608 words

dotall 2025 Lison: Craft goes Laravel

Craft 6 will be LaravelThe biggest announcement from the Pixel & Tonic team was that Craft CMS will be switching frameworks, away from Yii and to Laravel with its 6.0 release. The plan to do this …

Oct 4·3 min read·409 words

WCAG Color contrast validation in Craft

While talking with 2 colleagues last week, we were discussing a project where the client asked for the option to be able to "theme" certain pages themselves, to match the branding of some of their own…

Jul 2·4 min read·695 words

A fresh start for Easy Address Field

When I first dipped my toe into plugin development during the Craft 2 days, a dedicated field for addresses was the first plugin I released. I made the first commit in October 2017, and it was high ti…

Jan 5·2 min read·280 words

Subscriptions for Mollie

A feature that has been long requested, and I’m happy to announce it is finally here: you can now set up and receive recurring payments on your Craft CMS website through my Mollie Payments plugin.

Jul 1·2 min read·284 words

Exports made easy with Element Exporter for Craft CMS

I'm happy to release a first version of my new plugin today: Element Exporter. The plugin tries to take the hassle out of exporting data from your Craft CMS website, and it was built with customizabil…

Mar 11·3 min read·403 words

SEO Fields 4: Schema.org, automatic redirects & updated template functions

A big update for my SEO Fields plugin was just released and in this post I'd like to tell you a bit more about what was added, what was changed and what you need to check before upgrading.

Jan 10·2 min read·357 words

Add shortcuts to Craft's control panel

When building out a site, I often find find myself clicking through to fields, sections and sites repeatedly. To make this a tiny bit easier, I like to add shortcuts to the Control Panel sidebar for q…

Dec 30·2 min read·210 words