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I’ve faced a lot of headache with video logistics too, especially when you have all sorts of different formats and sizes from clients who just want it to “work.” Self-hosting was never smooth for me, and every time bitrate or compatibility issues popped up, it just ate up hours. I know some folks set up ffmpeg pipelines, but honestly, I like to keep things simple and user-friendly. Anything that automates the heavy-lifting or even provides presets for common exports makes my life easier, especially if less techy people are involved. What’s helped in my personal workflow is relying on tools that streamline editing and automatic conversion, so I can focus on the content rather than the nitty-gritty of formats and uploads. I’ve been experimenting with movavi for this reason, it handles a lot of these basic headaches in a lightweight way and makes prepping files less technical for the rest of the team.

Was looking at this recently. We wanted to move to an EU / UK service (from Mailgun who have been absolutely fine but we're on an old PAYG tier with unlimited domains that we suspect might be removed soon). Brevo and Lettermint were on our list but we're currently giving AhaSend a go. It's only been a week so far and we've not stressed it much but the onboarding was good and it's working fine with WireMailSmtp. Decent amount of emails on the free tier as well.

Well that was quick! 😅 Wrapping with json_encode() worked for me. Gsap text animation now works: const paragraphs = [ <?=json_encode(__("Here is some text"))?>, <?=json_encode(__("Here is some more text"))?> ];

I have a javascript animation similar to this codepen here: https://codepen.io/Anthony-Osceola/pen/YPPXwJw My version requires that the string is contained in a const variable. This is what I've tried: ..... .......... const paragraphs = [ <?=__("Here is some text.")?>, <?=__("Here is some more text")?> ]; function buildParagraph(text) {.......... While I've managed to translate the rest of the page, I'm having trouble getting text within javascript tags to work. They show in the admin but the translated text won't display for the JS animation. Would I be better off just creating another template for this translated page? I thought that doing so could be bad for SEO if it's counted as duplicate content. Any advice appreciated.

Brevo works for me

Hi @adrian When uploading and inserting an image into a field (e.g., a TinyMCE "body" field) with this module active, any UTF-8 characters (like Greek letters) in other Textarea fields on the same page (e.g., a plain text "seo_description" field) are unexpectedly converted into HTML entities (e.g., "α" becomes "&alpha;" ) and saved to the database. I asked Gemini to provide a solution. Steps to Reproduce: Create a page with a TinyMCE field (body) and a standard Textarea field (seo_description). Enter UTF-8 characters (e.g., Greek text) into the "seo_description" field and save. Upload and insert an image into the "body" field. Save the page. Check the "seo_description" field or the database; the UTF-8 text has been converted to HTML entities. Root Cause Analysis: The issue stems from the "replaceRteLinks" method, which is triggered to update image URLs after a rename. Scope Logic: The method fetches all fields of type FieldtypeTextarea and FieldtypeTextareaLanguage and processes them using DOMDocument, regardless of whether the field actually contains the image URL. Encoding Handling: DOMDocument::saveHTML() natively converts extended characters into HTML entities. Because it processes unrelated fields, it permanently alters their raw text in the database. Proposed Solution: Updating the "replaceRteLinks" method to strictly check if the field contains the target URL before processing it, and utilizing ProcessWire's native sanitizer to restore entities converted by DOMDocument. Here is the patched method: private function replaceRteLinks($newFilename, $oldFilename) { $textareaFields = $this->wire('fields')->find("type=FieldtypeTextarea|FieldtypeTextareaLanguage"); $fieldsStr = $textareaFields->implode('|', 'name'); $oldRelativeUrl = str_replace($this->wire('config')->paths->root, '', $oldFilename); $oldRelativeUrlSansExt = str_replace(pathinfo($oldFilename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION), '', $oldRelativeUrl); foreach($this->wire('pages')->find("$fieldsStr%=$oldRelativeUrlSansExt, include=all") as $p) { foreach($textareaFields as $taf) { // FIX 1: Only parse the field if it actually contains the image URL. if($p->$taf != '' && strpos((string)$p->$taf, $oldRelativeUrlSansExt) !== false) { // FIX 2: Explicitly declare UTF-8 for the DOMDocument $pagedom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8'); libxml_use_internal_errors(true); // add <cun> as fake root element $pagedom->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?><cun>' . $p->$taf . '</cun>', LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD | LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_SCHEMA_CREATE); $pagedom = $this->replaceRteLink($pagedom, $newFilename, $oldFilename, 'a', 'href'); $pagedom = $this->replaceRteLink($pagedom, $newFilename, $oldFilename, 'img', 'src'); // remove fake root element $html = str_replace(['<cun>', '</cun>', '<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?>'], '', $pagedom->saveHtml()); // FIX 3: Restore UTF-8 characters converted to entities by DOMDocument $html = $this->wire('sanitizer')->unentities($html); $p->of(false); $p->$taf = $html; libxml_clear_errors(); $p->save($taf); } } } }

Postmark is nice. I use it on all my sites. I picked up a lot of credits before they went subscription only. Nice UI, reliable, good support and docs too.

Amazing, thanks both.

We are using Emailit, and it is working very well. We got a lifetime deal on AppSumo. Check: https://appsumo.com/products/emailit/

Hello, Recently I did an extensive research and found https://maileroo.com/pricing to be the best value compared to similar services I found. I registered with them, but the project I will use it for has not yet reached the point where it is actually needed. The ProcessWire instance in question can also handle the initial email sending volumes using the VPN’s own SMTP service.

The client hosting company has a cap on emails per hour that is fine for now but we might exceed it eventually. Can anyone recommend a paid SMTP service that scales in tems of volume and works well with the stock ProcessWire SMTP module? I just want something that will plug and play but inputting the SMTP credentials rather than having to authorise an app, etc. I have used Mailgun before so that is an option and found the module in the PW directory works. I just find some SMTP services don't always work right away so I wondered if there are any you can recommend. The server is based in the UK so something that has a server nearby would be a bonus for lower latency. Thanks. 🙂

The content owner of this video that I randomly chose from the YouTube homepage had marked this particular video content as not-embeddable, so the JSON response from the oembed provider of YouTube responded with "Unauthorized" which the Essence library doesn't really handle (it just returns nothingness, which in this case is kind of appropriate). Once I tracked that down, I tried another YouTube video URL and it worked as expected. 🤦

Hi Folks. I've got a client with an e-commerce jewellery shop. She's been updating the prices a lot in the lasts week or so (price of silver!) but can only go about 30 minutes before the site crashes. I've had a look a the logs and see frequent "SQLSTATE[42000] [1203] User xxxxxx_admin already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections (/wire/core/WireDatabasePDO.php:556)" notices followed by "SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 Server has gone away (/wire/core/WireDatabasePDO.php:1000)" notices (the xxxxx_admin is the database admin account). The site's been in use for about 5 years without issues, she uses the 'live search' feature in the PW backend (upper right corner) to jump from product to product by typing in the product_code (a field I had added via the PageSearch modules' config/settings). She said she often would type a PC like '41-PB-1001' and would often make mistakes, then backup to the second hyphen then that's when things would sometimes freeze. I've checked the cPanel when the site goes down and the CPU uses is always screaming at 99%/100%. They get pretty good traffic on the site, so I've been hesitant to updated anything, but last week I updated php to 8.2, then today I brought PW up to 3.0.255 but it didn't fix it. I can't reproduce it easily, partly because I can't take the time to type searches for 20 or 30 minutes! Anyone ever seen this before? Thanks.

Hey all, MediaHub is ready! Thanks for the kind words and the questions about availability. I've been replying to a few people privately, but here's the latest.. It has been given a thorough kicking on my own site(s) and 2 client sites. I'm opening up a waitlist for those interested in purchasing early access. I want to limit it initially to the first 5-10-ish people. IE small batches so I can make sure the purchase and licensing flow works smoothly hear how the setup goes across different environments provide proper support to each person. If you're interested, DM me here. Early access members will get a discount on the first year of updates as a thank you for feedback. I'll post a walkthrough video here shortly, but the screenshots earlier in the thread should give you a pretty good picture of things. Cheers everyone, Peter

Something I've adopted for my PW sites is putting environment-specific DB credentials and configuration in a separate file, /site/config.local.php: /** * Installer: Database Configuration * */ $config->dbHost = '127.0.0.1'; $config->dbName = 'db'; $config->dbUser = 'default'; $config->dbPass = 'default'; $config->dbPort = '3306'; /** * Installer: HTTP Hosts Whitelist * */ $config->httpHosts = array( 'my-local-domain.test'); And then including that file into /site/config.php: /*** INSTALLER CONFIG ********************************************************************/ // DB Config, Hosts Whitelist include dirname(__FILE__) . '/config.local.php'; I find this makes it easier to push changes when using version control (i.e. git) across different environments, and keep the credentials and other sensitive information excluded from the repo. On some managed hosts like Cloudways, you can pull and push DB changes from staging to/from production applications, as well as branch changes from git. Obviously this doesn't help when you make DB changes locally, though. Otherwise, I will either export/import the entire DB via the Database Backups module, or Pages Import/Export (under Admin > Modules, Core modules) depending on the kind of changes. After using Vercel and Netlify for static-based websites, it does make me wish there was a quicker way to push/pull DB changes, but perhaps that extra bit of friction is good so you don't inadvertently disrupt your production data. Definitely something I can improve in my own workflow! Managing local/remote image assets Occasionally I've added this code snippet to /site/ready.php, that allows for your local installation to pull down the asset from prod, which can save you some time. I'm also generally curious to know more about other folks' deployment strategies – could be a potentially useful thing to collect and make more visible in the PW docs, too.

Is anyone using this recently? I have had this installed as a "just in case" type of module, and when originally developing, it worked. In trying to audit my code for accessibility practices a little more thoroughly, this module is currently not working (and I unfortunately hadn't used it for any saved data embeds as of yet). I'm getting the error message of, "No oembed data or provider found," and no error logs seem to be generated in ProcessWire, and PHP deprecation notices for the essence library on the webserver logs (PHP 8.2). My test embed was a YouTube video as a simple check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cdrVNfngo0 Haven't yet tried to track down the issue, only just noticed and thought I'd ask other users first. 🙂

Still using Seomaestro. Discovered a scenario where it missed pages in the sitemap that used urlsegments. In my case, it was the blog module authors page. It should also handle paginated pages but untested. Hope this helps. $wire->addHookAfter('SeoMaestro::sitemapItems', function(HookEvent $event) { $items = $event->return; $pages = wire('pages'); $users = wire('users'); $roles = wire('roles'); $config = wire('config'); $seen = []; foreach($items as $item) { if(!empty($item->loc)) { $seen[rtrim($item->loc, '/')] = true; } } $getSeoSettings = function(Page $page) { foreach($page->template->fieldgroup as $field) { if(!$field->type instanceof FieldtypeSeoMaestro) { continue; } $seo = $page->get($field->name); if(!$seo || !$seo->sitemap->include) { return null; } return [ 'priority' => $seo->sitemap->priority, 'changefreq' => $seo->sitemap->changeFrequency, ]; } return null; }; $appendItem = function($url, $lastmod, array $settings) use (&$items, &$seen) { $key = rtrim($url, '/'); if(isset($seen[$key])) { return; } $item = new \SeoMaestro\SitemapItem(); $item->set('loc', $url); $item->set('lastmod', date('c', (int) $lastmod)); $item->set('priority', $settings['priority']); $item->set('changefreq', $settings['changefreq']); $items[] = $item; $seen[$key] = true; }; $appendPaginatedItems = function(Page $page, $totalItems, $perPage, $lastmod) use ($config, $getSeoSettings, $appendItem) { $settings = $getSeoSettings($page); if(!$settings) { return; } $totalPages = (int) ceil($totalItems / $perPage); if($totalPages < 2) { return; } for($pageNum = 2; $pageNum <= $totalPages; $pageNum++) { $appendItem( $page->httpUrl . $config->pageNumUrlPrefix . $pageNum . '/', $lastmod ?: $page->modified, $settings ); } }; $blogPostsPage = $pages->get('template=blog-posts'); if($blogPostsPage->id) { $latestPost = $pages->get("template=blog-post, sort=-modified"); $appendPaginatedItems( $blogPostsPage, $pages->count("template=blog-post"), 8, $latestPost->id ? $latestPost->modified : $blogPostsPage->modified ); } foreach($pages->find('template=blog-category, include=hidden') as $categoryPage) { $latestPost = $pages->get("template=blog-post, blog_categories=$categoryPage, sort=-modified"); $appendPaginatedItems( $categoryPage, $pages->count("template=blog-post, blog_categories=$categoryPage"), 10, $latestPost->id ? $latestPost->modified : $categoryPage->modified ); } $authorsPage = $pages->get('template=blog-authors'); $authorSettings = $authorsPage->id ? $getSeoSettings($authorsPage) : null; if($authorsPage->id && $authorSettings) { $authorRole = $roles->get('blog-author'); foreach($users->find("roles=$authorRole, sort=title") as $author) { $authorSlug = wire('sanitizer')->pageName($author->title); if(!$authorSlug) { continue; } $postCount = $pages->count("template=blog-post, created_users_id=$author"); if(!$postCount) { continue; } $authorUrl = $authorsPage->httpUrl . $authorSlug . '/'; $latestPost = $pages->get("template=blog-post, created_users_id=$author, sort=-modified"); $lastmod = $latestPost->id ? $latestPost->modified : ($author->modified ?: $authorsPage->modified); $appendItem($authorUrl, $lastmod, $authorSettings); $totalPages = (int) ceil($postCount / 10); if($totalPages < 2) { continue; } for($pageNum = 2; $pageNum <= $totalPages; $pageNum++) { $appendItem( $authorUrl . $config->pageNumUrlPrefix . $pageNum . '/', $lastmod, $authorSettings ); } } } $event->return = $items; });

@jploch @diogo Awesome work, I love the new website!

Most important to me is that I understand everything that goes into the core, and that means that AI is used for ideas and suggestions, but the code is still written by hand. And even then, the suggestions and ideas only end up in the core if they produce a measurable improvement. After testing and benchmarking, sometimes the ideas/suggestions result in an improvement, and just as often they do not. I do the same with pull requests. Coding and re-coding something is how I feel comfortable that I understand it. Perhaps too old-school but I don't think that will ever change. So long as I'm in charge of the core, I need that level of understanding with it. On another project I'm working on with a client (an add-on to their website), we're letting Claude handle the code entirely, with lots of instructions from us, but zero code from us. It's kind of a test and a learning experience, and the client initiated it. We don't know the details of the code, but we do know that the code works quite well. Though I had a peek at its code and found it to be quite solid. What's funny is that in this case, Claude is having me build web services it can pull data from. So I'm giving it instructions, but it's also giving me instructions. 🙂

[Update] v1.0.25 – Multi-Email Account Merge A small but handy addition for real-world scenarios: customers sometimes purchase with different email addresses and end up with split accounts. The new Merge User Accounts tool in the module config lets you consolidate them in seconds. You enter the source email (the old/unwanted account) and the target email (the one the customer wants to keep). The module transfers all purchases from the source to the target and permanently deletes the source account. Before committing, you can run it in test mode to see exactly what would be transferred – no changes are written. Once you're confident, check "Merge now", save, and the merge report confirms what happened. One thing worth noting: the source account is permanently deleted after the merge – so double-check in test mode first. 🙂 Feedback welcome!

@Peter Knight Thanks for the work on this, Peter. Gemini AI actually helped me realize that it should work seamlessly with my PhpStorm + Cline + z.ai setup as well. Since your module includes the local Node.js MCP script, I should just be able to point my local Cline instance to that file via its MCP settings, and it will handle the sync workflow right inside PhpStorm. Looking forward to the release!

Hi everyone – very infrequent poster here, and also a long-time PW user in my web development career, for which I am deeply appreciative. Like @Ex-user, I have a lot of intense skepticism about AI, not only because of the environmental consequences being referred to, but also the invisibilized human costs in training these algorithms, as well as the risk of impacting critical thinking skills. I bristle at the way it's being coercively marketed as the inevitable answer to every human problem. That being said, I, like everyone else, recognize I have a career because of the many visible and hidden costs of digital technologies. That neither means I am "pure" or exempt from the hidden costs, nor does it mean I accept everything without pause. I think we all are attempting to make the best decisions for ourselves and consideration for others, and this may be expressed in differing ways when it comes to AI usage. For me, the primary issue with using AI is the matter of trust and accountability – what person is bearing responsibility for the work it produces or choices it makes? If PW's codebase adopts any changes suggested by AI, my hope would be that it undergoes the same level of testing and scrutiny as any other code revision, and it seems like Ryan is doing just that. If I have any say as a PW user in how AI is adopted into the main codebase, my hope would be that it's a transparent, auditable process, and (somewhat idealistically, from my own personal, ethical position) continues to be opt-in.

Thanks for the feedback! Done in v1.1.7! 🎉 You can now manually select your CSS framework in module settings: Setup → Modules → Context → Configure → CSS Framework Options: Auto-detect (default) Tailwind CSS Bootstrap UIkit Vanilla CSS / Custom ← your use case None This will generate more accurate code examples and snippets for AI, specifically tailored to your vanilla CSS setup instead of assuming Tailwind.

Thank you both for the feedback! Added a dedicated sitemap-edit permission in v1.0.1. It is created automatically on module install — just assign it to the roles you need in Access > Roles. https://github.com/mxmsmnv/Sitemap

Hi @maximus Loving your Context module! One small change request. My sites use custom, nested, vanilla CSS. There's no option in the stack (or I've missed it?). It defaults to 'Tailwind'. My workaround is to override the Tailwind setting in the extra comments. Be nice to have that option in the module config. Keep up the great work!