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Hi guys, my latest PW project. Client: ProximaXP One page design this time, so there is not much on PW power here, but I used a lot pages and fields for customizing all aspect and functions of the website. http://proximaxp.com

I think you should probably take a look at the concept behind ProcessWire first, then some of the other docs and the cheatsheet as Macrura suggest - start with the Concept page from here: http://processwire.com/api/ The Cheatsheet then gives you a look at most the possible functionality at your disposal in page templates to access your data and files. As for explaining the line of code you quoted: $skyscrapers = $page->skyscrapers->find("limit=3, sort=random"); From memory, "skyscrapers" is actually a "featured skyscrapers" field, so is just a Page field that links to other pages (probably the most useful fieldtype there is. Here is the exact translation: "For the current page (homepage in this instance), find 3 random pages from the skyscrapers field". The $skyscrapers = bit is just storing the results in a PageArray (it's in the docs linked further up my post here) that can then easily be iterated through to print whatever output you desire. If you're wondering why the demo doesn't seem to pick three random pages, I think page caching must have been accidentally left on here so it's always showing the same 3 in the demo, but that's easy to switch off The syntax is based on jQuery and aims to be human-readable. If you imagine that there are a few database tables and queries behind that code, you can easily see how quick that is to write and all without a line of SQL. You can make all sorts of queries like: $architectsCalledPaul = $pages->find("template=architect, title*=Paul"); // finds all architects (pages with the template "architect" with the name Paul somewhere in the title field // and so on... The idea behind ProcessWire is that once you've learned the basics you can build pretty complicated data structures in the admin quicker than you'd be able to writing database tables from scratch and you have a hugely powerful set of functions at your fingertips to do with that data as you please. Most folks here would agree that it has shaved hours/days/weeks/months off their site build times depending on website scale, but any time saved is good!

This module adds page to Admin -> Setup -> Redirects where you can add 301 redirects (inside your site or to other domains). Screencast: http://www.screencast.com/users/apeisa/folders/Jing/media/e29abcca-5ef0-44dd-ac9a-2cc70f53d2c6 (I have Chrome with Instant on so it previews pages before hitting enter.. but I'm too laze to record another screencast. Also there is sneak preview to my upcoming admin theme...) Download & Installation: https://github.com/apeisa/ProcessRedirects/archives/master, unzip all the files to /site/modules/ProcessRedirects/ folder, check new modules from bottom of the modules page and hit install on ProcessRedirects. More information and "tutorial" how this was done can be found from here: http://processwire.com/talk/index.php/topic,167.msg1071.html (and like you can see, most of the code came from Ryan's hands, I just wrapped it all together). Hope you guys find this useful. Not tested yet on many servers, so all the feedback is more than welcome. ProcessRedirects5.zip

Yep - 'sharpening' => 'none' on the image sizer options cures the issue. Thanks again Martijn. Wish I'd found that post sooner!

Hey, I just went the route to switch the language fields manually now. Took me about an hour, so everything is fine now. I red something about scripts too that would make the switching possible but the time to set up one would take the same to just do it manually I guess. I mean in the end it was my fault not set englisch default at first place anyway. It's a .com domain so de just didn't make any sense here. So learned my lesson. PW is so great in many ways (thank you ryan!) and it already saved me such a great amount of time that this one more hour is totally fine. But yes, if there is still something to say about this topic of course I'd be very interested.

Funny.... I've been digging this forum like hell and I stumbled on this one... just after I finished a car site LOL. Still interesting and it seems I was on the right track from the beginning.... Great TUT

@gebeer: Have you tried if "Unpublished" (capital "U") works? Just a guess, but it could be that Edit: my guess was wrong; lowercase would work just fine. The issue is that the code Martijn posted above is from dev branch. If you're running stable (master) branch of ProcessWire, that won't work for you.

I have the same conflict right now for my current project. HTML5 boilerplate suggest just sticking to sans-serif, not specifying a font at all. The vision behind it is simple but clever. (maybe I go this route) Not assigning a font and let the system decide what font renders best. It's logical because the people who build the operating system did lot of font research.

I agree. Why not simply stay with Arial, Helvetica? Maybe we should do a poll? What's more important? good performance and cross browser/OS compatibility nice (visual) typography

It's a bit late to suggest this, but I'd like to seriously question if we really need Arimo. What's it's greatest benefit here? Is it more usable, readable etc. when compared to "web-safe" alternatives or is it purely a visual thing? Personally I can't see anything being so great about it, not even that visual part, but what I can see is a pile of issues. I prefer my fonts to load fast and be readable, that's all, and at the moment I feel that neither of those has improved (quite the opposite really) in this new admin theme. To summarize this, it just seems questionable to me if Arimo is really worth it. I can't see any real benefits, but then again, I'm not the typography guru here either (Note: having to rely on a very slow mobile connection for a while has definitely affected my opinion, as you can see from the attached screenshot. That's not even funny anymore and I've been seeing it a lot lately. Not saying that it's a typical situation, but it's not unheard of either.)

Thank you everyone for the feedback and comments. This is a very nice framework and I hope Ryan and hero member here continues to bring surprises to further bring processwire to the next level.

Since a latest updates to TinyMCE inputfield there's an option to add custom plugins from outside the core to TinyMCE on a per field basis. Here's an example how to add the bramus_cssextras plugin. Ok download the plugin http://www.bram.us/p...xtras/#download 1. create a directory in your site folder i.e. "/site/tinymce" 2. create a plugins folder in it i.e. "/site/tinymce/plugins" 3. put the folder "bramus_cssextras" in there 4. put a content.css in the "tinymce" folder (this is where you can define classes or id's, like: p.lead {...}, ul.list {}, h2.red{ ... } ) (see bramus_cssextras homepage for further infos) 5. now go to the TinyMCE field you want to use it. Under tab "Input" you'll see a "TinyMCE Advanced Configuration Options" collapsed. Open it. 6. add the buttons to one of the theme_advanced_button fields: "bramus_cssextras_classes,bramus_cssextras_ids" if you don't need id's leave it out 7. add the content.css to the content_css field setting like: "/site/tinymce/content.css" 8. add plugin to "Third-party plugin" textarea field like: "bramus_cssextras: /site/tinymce/plugins/bramus_cssextras" as one line. Done. You should now be able to select the class "lead" when cursor inside a <p> tag. Add as much css classes or id's to the content.css as you wish, bramus_cssextras will autodetect them. Have fun.