Throttling AI bot traffic in ProcessWire
Many websites these days are the feeding ground for AI bots. In this post we look at a tool for taming all the hungry crawlers and bots. More
Performance/optimization
ProcessWire 3.0.226 new main/master version
After 8 months in development we are excited to bring you ProcessWire 3.0.226 main/master. This version has a ton of great new features, improvements and optimizations, plus more than 100 issue fixes. This post takes an in-depth look at highlights from this great new version. More
Output formatting in ProcessWire
Pages have fields, fields have values, and those values can be either formatted or unformatted in ProcessWire. This post tells you everything you need to know about output formatting and how to use it to your benefit. More
Debugging tools built into ProcessWire
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
ProcessWire 3.0.200 new master/main version
This new main/master version has more than 220 commits, resolves more than 80 issues, adds numerous new features, performance improvements and optimizations, and consumes HALF the disk space of our previous release. This post covers all the details. More
Field and template performance/scalability improvements
This week we have some great performance and scalability improvements in the core that enable lazy-loading of fields, templates and fieldgroups. More
ProcessWire 3.0.175 adds new database scalability options
This week ProcessWire gained the ability to maintain separate read-only and read-write database connections to optimize scalability, cost and performance. The post covers why this can be so valuable and how to configure it in ProcessWire. More
ProcessWire 3.0.172 – Find faster and more efficiently
This week ProcessWire gained powerful new tools for finding pages and controlling how they are loaded. If you like to maximize performance and efficiency, you’ll like what 3.0.172 brings. More
About the new ProcessWire ProFields Combo Field
This week we'll take a brief look at a powerful new ProFields module for ProcessWire that's just around the corner—the Combo field. More
Powerful new text-searching abilities in 3.0.160
In ProcessWire 3.0.160 we’ve got some major upgrades and additions to our text-search abilities. This brings a whole new level of power to $pages->find() and similar API calls, especially when it comes to search engine type queries. More
ProcessWire 3.0.153 core updates
This latest version of the core on the dev branch focuses on comments field updates, significant refactoring/improvements to ProcessWire’s core Template class and PagesLoader class (which is used by the $pages API variable), and we introduce a useful new $pages API method. More
ProcessWire 3.0.152 core updates
This week we have some major improvements to our core date/time Inputfield, as well as a new ability to specify your own custom classes for Page objects. Read on for all the details and examples. More
Driving around a DDOS attack
Last Saturday we started getting hit with heavy traffic at the processwire.com support forums, and it soon became a full blown DDOS frenzy. This post describes all the fun, how we got it back under control, and what we learned along the way. More
WebP images on an existing site
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 3.0.135 core updates
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