Essential Statamic for PHP and Laravel Developers

Get up and running with Statamic, a flat-file CMS powered by Laravel and Git. This course covers everything from installation to the deployment of a Statamic website on Netifly.

Introduction

• Introduction to Statamic

1. Introduction to Statamic

• What is Statamic?
• Statamic vs. WordPress vs. Jigsaw SSG
• Statamic as a standalone web app vs. as a Laravel package

2. Getting Started with Statamic

• Installing Statamic as a standalone project
• Installing Statamic as a Laravel package
• Statamic starter kits
• Creating a user in Statamic
• Statamic control panel
• Adding and styling content in Statamic
• Challenge: Creating a new Statamic project
• Solution: Creating a new Statamic project

3. Statamic Internals

• File structure in Statamic
• Blueprints, fieldtypes, and fieldsets in Statamic
• Assets in Statamic
• Antlers, the templating engine in Statamic
• Variables in Statamic
• Globals in Statamic
• Navigation in Statamic
• Challenge: Creating a blueprint, a fieldset, and a navigation
• Solution: Creating a blueprint, a fieldset, and a navigation

4. Deploying Statamic on Netlify

• Statamic as an SSG
• Introduction to Netlify
• Uploading a Statamic website to GitHub
• Deploying a Statamic website to Netlify
• Challenge: Deploying a Statamic project to Netlify
• Solution: Deploying a Statamic project to Netlify

Conclusion

• Where to go from here