Guides and tutorials

Debugging tools built into ProcessWire

1 July 2022 3

ProcessWire's core comes with a lot of helpful debugging tools and capabilities built-in. In this post we'll cover some of these useful tools and how to use them. More

Starting a site with the “blank” profile

10 June 2022 4

ProcessWire 3.0.200+ comes with just 1 site installation profile, the site-blank profile. This profile makes very few assumptions, making it a minimal though excellent starting point. Here’s how you might use it. More

ProcessWire 3.0.181 core updates + “Hello World”

2 July 2021 2

ProcessWire 3.0.181 has fixes and improvements as usual, but the biggest addition is a nice pull request from LostKobrakai, plus major updates to our Helloworld and ProcessHello demonstration modules. This post covers it all. More

ProcessWire 3.0.179 core updates

28 May 2021 3

ProcessWire 3.0.179 adds great new admin theme customization tools that put you in full control over the admin styles. More

ProcessWire 3.0.177 core updates

30 April 2021 4

This week we focus in on a new and unique Inputfield module added to the core that enables a lot of useful new input capabilities for tags, sortable multiple selection and custom user input. More

ProcessWire 3.0.173 core updates: New URL hooks

5 March 2021 6

ProcessWire 3.0.173 adds several new requested features and this post focuses on one of my favorites: the ability to hook into and handle ProcessWire URLs, independent of pages. More

WebP images on an existing site

16 August 2019 2

In this post we’ll look at a process used for migrating an existing website to use WebP images. We’ll cover everything from preliminary considerations to implementation and testing, with lots of tips and tricks along the way. More

ProcessWire 3.0.137 core updates

2 August 2019 2

Core version 3.0.137 on the dev branch adds the ability to hook multiple methods at once, in a single call. This post details how it works and provides a useful example of how you might put it to use in your development environment. This version also refactors and improves upon several core classes. More

Two new WireMail modules and using Gmail with PW

19 July 2019

A look at two new WireMail modules for sending email, plus details on how you can configure ProcessWire to use Gmail for sending email. More

ProcessWire 3.0.135 core updates

3 July 2019

Version 3.0.135 of ProcessWire on the dev branch focuses on .htaccess updates, adds additional layers of security, adds clarity to debug mode, and improves upon the installer. More

Using InnoDB with ProcessWire

17 August 2018 4

This week we take a look at a couple of reasons why you might want to choose InnoDB as your MySQL database engine when installing ProcessWire. More

What to do after upgrading to the latest master

23 March 2018 7

With everything running smoothly on the new master version, we wanted to recommend a few additional steps that will help you take advantage of some of the new features. Plus a look at developing for and with ProcessWire. More

ProcessWire 3.0.91 core updates

9 February 2018 4

This week we take a look at an interesting and useful new way to find pages in ProcessWire: by Fieldtype. More

Building custom admin pages with Process modules

1 December 2017 8

A tutorial on building custom admin pages in ProcessWire with Process modules, by Bernhard Baumrock. More

ProcessWire 3.0.62 and more on markup regions

5 May 2017 4

This post covers what's in ProcessWire 3.0.62 and provides an in-depth look at the final spec of markup regions, how they work, and how to use them. More