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Let’s review what happened in the Perch universe in 2020

Use MySQL’s FIELD() function to fetch Perch items from the database in a custom order

Use the sort attribute on the perch:categories tags to output categories in a custom order.

What is the each callback function in Perch? What does it do? How can you use it?

Compatibility issues and workarounds: Perch v3.1.6 (or older) and MySQL 8

How to check the variables available to you in a Perch email template

Using custom tag attributes on Perch-templated forms

Bring global sections and PHP into the flexible world of Perch Blocks

Perch’s conditional tags is a powerful feature of its templating engine. Yet, you can in some cases replicate the outcome of perch:if tags with tag attributes and write less code in the process.

A handy Perch template feature is the append attribute. The template engine appends the value of the append attribute to the end of a field.

The else attribute provides a quick and easy way to output a default if a field is empty, but can’t it output falsy values?