Perchology Links

This is a list of Perch CMS add-ons by third party developers (the official apps are here).

This list includes add-ons, field types, template filters, plugins etc. Many of these links were orginally published in the Perchology Newsletter.

Note: Please check the capabilities and requirements for each app/add-on before using these on your Perch site.

Another Note: I'll be pruning this list if I think something is too old to be useful.

Index

• Add-ons
  • Analytics
  • API Emails
  • Collections
  • Email Lists
  • Forms
  • Forum
  • Icons
  • Image Optimisation
  • Instagram
  • Locations
  • Members
  • Redirects
  • Search Engine Optimisation
  • Sharing
  • Shop
  • Shortcodes
  • Site Search
  • Translations
  • Users
• Dashboard Widgets
  • Backup
  • Links
  • Pages and Regions
  • Shortcuts
  • SSL
• Field Types
  • Collections
  • Colors
  • Date and Time
  • Duplication
  • Images
  • Inputs
  • Lists
  • Strings
  • Tables
  • Tags
• Plugins
  • Editors
  • UI Scripts
• Template Filters
  • Images
  • Navigation Menu
  • Text
• Themes
  • Admin
• Other
  • Export

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Add-ons

Analytics

• Fathom Analytics
  Display a Fathom Analytics shared dashboard in Perch admin.
• Go Squared Analytics
  Add GoSquared Analytics to Perch admin.

API Emails

• Cognetif ApiMail
  ApiMail allows you to configure Perch to send email via web based API's such as SendGrid rather than SMTP or sendmail.

Collections

• RG Sheets
  This app will allow you to import data from a Google sheet, into a specified Perch collection. And to schedule that import.

Email Lists

• Campaign Monitor
  View Campaign Monitor lists and campaigns in Perch admin. Using Perch forms you can also subscribe new users to your lists.

Forms

• Clean Talk Anti-spam
  This Perch add-on uses the CleanTalk API "check_message" method to help prevent spam on Perch Forms.

• Form Builder
  An app to build forms and configure their fields via Perch admin.

• MBK Forms
  Perch Forms Recaptcha uses Google Recaptcha v3 with Perch forms.

• Perch Response Prune
  An addon that deletes form responses older than a specified age.

Forum

• YB Forum
  A forum add-on.

Icons

• Font Awesome App
  Add inline SVG icons from the popular Font Awesome icon library without any JavaScript.

Image Optimisation

• Perch Image Optimiser
  Compress images that are generated by the CMS.

• Timyimg
  Uses the Tinify service to optimise images on upload.

Instagram

• Perch Instagram App
  An app for pulling in Instagram posts.

Locations

• Perch Locator
  An app to manage addresses and locations.

Members

• Member Tags
  Allow an administrator to view and edit all the tags that are currently used by the Perch Members app.

Redirects

• Perch Redirects
  An app to manage 301/302 redirects from within Perch Admin. Currently only works with Perch Runway.

Search Engine Optimisation

• Chirp
  Chirp allows Perch content editors to analyse their content, and improve their on-site SEO.

Sharing

• Pipit Sharing
  Quickly and easily add sharing links for popular social media sites.

Shop

• Cognetif Ordervars
  A Perch app to pass variables to an order from before the checkout step in Perch Shop.
• Pipit Catalog
  Provides an alternative listing page for Shop Products with product thumbnails and easy filtering options. The listing also highlights sale and stock states.
• Root Perch Shop Omnipay Update
  This is an update to the gateways for Perch Shop to make use of the latest Stripe Omnipay gateway so that Stripe is able to use 3DS2.

Shortcodes

• Pixelfix Shortcodes
  A simple Perch admin app to build support for shortcodes.

Site Search

• Perch Algolia Sync
  Uses the Algolia API to communicate with your Algolia account and update site search results.

Translations

• Translation Helper
  An add-on for Perch to help with translating content in templates.
• User Interface Translations for Perch 2
  User-submitted language files for Perch admin.

Users

• Event Logger
  Tracks the activity of users with CMS access. For assisting clients or for auditing your content editors.

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Dashboard Widgets

Backup

• Runway Backup Status Dashboard Widget
  A dashboard widget that shows the status of latest backups.

Links

• Perch Dashboard Links
  Displays a list of links. Links are added by a user in the Perch Settings page.

Pages and Regions

• Edit Pages from Dashboard
  Displays a list of all region items from all pages on the dashboard. Click each Page or Region item to go to its edit-page.

Shortcuts

• Pipits Shortcuts
  Choose menu sections, managed in Perch Runway's Menu Manager, to be listed in the widget.

SSL

• SSL Certificate Status
  A simple widget that shows the time remaining on SSL/TLS certificates.

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Field Types

Collections

• Collection
  Select a Collection key via the control panel (e.g. in an editable region). Useful when you have multiple Collections and you want to give the editor control over which one to display.

Colors

• Kirk Spectrum Color Picker
  Implements the Spectrum color picker.
• Color Swatches
  A Perch field type to display a selection of color swatches for the editor to choose from.

Date and Time

• Timestamp
  A simple timestamp field type.
• Calendar
  A field type for allowing users to select dates using a calendar.
• Calendar
  An extended version (fork) of the previous calendar field type. Allowing editors to select dates using Flatpickr.js calendar.

Duplication

• CloneItem
  A field type that will clone/copy an item in a multi-item region.
• ClonePage
  A field type that will clone/copy a page and its contents.

Images

• Focalpoint
  A custom field type allowing you to visually select a focal point on an existing Perch image.

Inputs

• Input Mask
  Apply an input mask to a Perch CMS text entry.
• Range Slider
  A basic range slider.
• Range Slider
  An Ion.RangeSlider-powered range slider.

Lists

• Collection List
  A field type for Perch Runway to select an item from a collection.
• Blog Posts
  A field type to select a blog post from the Perch Blog add-on and return a property.
• Pages
  A field type to select a page from the page list and return a property.
• Product List
  A field type for selecting products from the official Perch Shop app.
• Superlist
  Adds a field type to Perch CMS that makes it easy to edit and output unordered/ordered lists.

Strings

• RandomString
  A field type to generate a (pseudo-)random string. Use this as a supplement to/replacement for the Perch-native slug field type, if you need a randomly generated slug, for instance.

Tags

• Tags
  A field type for adding comma-separated tags. Gives visual feedback to the editor, prevents editors entering the same tag more than once and allows blacklist words.

Tables

• Simon A Table
  Creates a configurable editable data table within the Perch admin and outputs an HTML <table> element.

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Plugins

Editors

• Cognetif AceSvg Editor
  An SVG specific editor based on the ACE code editor plug-in from Perch 2 and retro-fitted to work on Runway (only tested on Runway). Adds a code editor with SVG syntax highlighting and an image live preview of the SVG content.
• Redactor: Inline Perch Assets
  Enables users to upload/select assets from the Perch Assets system. Images are displayed inline in the text box of the Redactor Editor.

UI Scripts

• Auto Collapsible Dividers
  Normally field dividers in Perch templates are open and this script makes it possible to collapse them intially.
• Perch Forms response view button
  A Perch UI plugin that adds a "View Response" button for each response on the Perch Forms "Listing Responses" page.
• UI Loader
  The UI loader app enables you to load admin UI assets (CSS, Javascript and favicon). The app comes with zero UI assets. It just loads them for you.

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Template Filters

Images

• Image Orientation Detection
  A Perch template filter to detect whether an image is portrait or landscape orientation.
• Pipit Imgix
  Pipit Imgix is a Perch template filter that generates Imgix URLs for your images. Imgix is a service that lets you process, manipulate and optimise images on the fly and then serve the images via a fast CDN.
• Pipit Cloudinary
  A template filter that enables you to easily upload images to Cloudinary and use their CDN and image processing functionality.

Navigation Menu

• Alternate Menu Name in Navigation
  A filter to enable two menu item names (e.g long and short name) in navigation. Use this if you want your Perch website to show a different menu item name in different situations, e.g a shorter name on smaller screens.

Text

• Anchors
  Adds IDs to HTML headings h1-h6 (based on their content) in a textarea field.
• Calculator
  Performs basic mathematical calculations.
• External Links
  Add target and rel attributes to external links inside textarea field types.
• Linebreak
  Inserts HTML line breaks <br> before new lines in a textarea field.
• Reading Length
  Get a Perch item's reading length in minutes.
• Telephone Numbers
  A template filter for formatting phone numbers.

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Themes

Admin

• Perch Admin Menu Icons
  A very simple way to add icons to your Perch admin sidebar menu.
• Perch Admin Style
  This app allows you to style the admin interface for different clients with some base styling defaults.
• Perch Admin Theme
  Adds a little more contrast and visual hierarchy to the Perch UI.
• Perch Admin Theme
  A blue admin theme.
• Perch UI Theme
  A dark "carbon" theme for Perch admin.
• Skill UI
  An airy modern style that looks nice with blocks. It will also convert all radiobuttons to toggle switches.

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Other

Export

• Export Perch Blog to JSON
  Two scripts to export Perch blog posts to JSON and then import the JSON into a Perch Runway collection. Use the first script to create a JSON file for importing into other CMS.
• toKirby
  Perch Dashboard app for exporting content to (Kirby) text files and Kirby blueprint files.