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It is always interesting to find where processwire is mentioned, so this is the topic to post links to articles, blog posts, discussions, tweets etc which are about or related to ProcessWire. I started with this one, which is well written article about some basic differences between WP and PW: http://www.globi.ca/articles/articles/processwire_vs_wordpress/

Here are a few ProcessWire sites I've launched in the last month or so. Nothing real big or exciting here, but figured it's good to post new stuff here when available. Blue Ridge Beverage This is a beer distributor for the state of Virginia in USA. I designed it back in 2009, but the client only recently came back and wanted it developed and launched. A friend did most of the development and did a great job getting everything working in ProcessWire. The client is still populating content here, so there are a few holes, especially in the Beverages database. Almanac of Architecture & Design Before you click on this one, note that this is using the default ProcessWire "basic site" profile (the client fell in love with it and didn't want to change… what can I do). But don't let that fool you, because this is actually quite a large and comprehensive site, particularly the Architecture Firms database. This one has dynamic maps, graphs, search engines and stats galore. There's also some fun stuff in the Buildings section. This site is an on-going project, so some sections are built out more than others, and stuff will be continually added to it. Jamaica Villas I just did the development on this one (not the design, other than tweaks). The design they had was very much in line with the Kickstart framework, so I stuck with it when producing in ProcessWire. I enjoyed using it, and was nice to use a framework developed by another ProcessWire user. I've worked on a few other villa sites in the past, and this one is smaller in terms of quantity of properties, though still involved a lot of work. This one has a full calendar and availability tracking system built into it (all running on ProcessWire), so it can search by availability or look at availability calendars and such. So there's a lot of power packed into this one. I just wish I'd had the opportunity to do the full design on this one, but it was still a satisfying and enjoyable project (as most are, when using ProcessWire)

As a bit of a MediaWiki learning experience i've put the project walktrough on the wiki. Not sure if this is the place where it ultimately resides, but anyways. http://wiki.processwire.com/index.php/Small_Project_Walktrough The wiki could do with a bit of syntax highlighting. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi Maybe later on i can actually contribute to the actual content of the tut.

Here's an update on the blog profile. It now supports themes. The first theme I've made for it is based on Nikola's Futura admin theme: http://processwire.com/blogtest/?theme=futura I've also made a ProcessWire theme, but I think it still needs work (a little too girly right now): http://processwire.com/blogtest/?theme=processwire I'll probably put in one or two more themes for the distribution version. You can select the theme from the homepage. It's just a page reference field where it lets you select from pages using the "theme" template. The "theme" template is nothing more than a files field with all of the theme's assets in it. Typically this would be a CSS file(s), JS file(s), and images or font files (if used). I also had color pickers for defining the themes colors, but backtracked on that. I want themes to be self contained so that can create a new "theme" page, drag a ZIP file into the page, and be done with it. Once color pickers get involved, it becomes much less portable. Though I may still provide the option for overriding theme colors, but I have a feeling most people would prefer to just edit the included CSS file and then drag it back in. This version also is better optimized for mobile use. In addition to converting the top navigation to a <select> in mobile views, it now moves the search box and any other navigation to the bottom. That way people on mobile should still see the primary page headline and some of the copy without having to scroll.