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Hello community! I want to share a new module I've been working on that I think could be a big boost for multi-language ProcessWire sites. Fluency is available in the ProcessWire Modules Directory, via Composer, and on Github Some background: I was looking for a way for our company website to be efficiently translated as working with human translators was pretty laborious and a lack of updating content created a divergence between languages. I, and several other devs here, have talked about translation integrations and the high quality services now available. Inspired by what is possible with ProcessWire, I built Fluency, a third-party translation service integration for ProcessWire. With Fluency you can: Translate any plain textarea or text input Translate any TinyMCE or CKEditor (inline, or regular) Translate page names/URLs Translate in-template translation function wrapped strings Translate modules, both core and add-ons Installation and usage is completely plug and play. Whether you're building a new multi-language site, need to update a site to multi-language, or simply want to stop manually translating a site and make any language a one-click deal, it could not be easier to do it. Fluency works by having you match the languages configured in ProcessWire to those offered by the third party translation service you choose. Currently Fluency works with DeepL and Google Cloud Translation. Module Features Translate any multilanguage field while editing any page. Translate fields in Repeater, Repeater Matrix, Table, Fieldset Page, Image descriptions, etc. Translate any file that added in the ProcessWire language pages. It's possible to translate the entire ProcessWire core in ~20 minutes Provide intuitive translation features that your clients and end-users can actually use. Fluency is designed for real-world use by individuals of all skill levels with little to no training. Its ease-of-use helps encourage users to adopt a multilanguage workflow. Start for free, use for free. Translation services supported by Fluency offer generous free tiers that can support regular usage levels. Fluency is, and will always be, free and open source. Use more than one Translation Engine. You may configure Fluency to use either DeepL, Google Cloud Translation, or both by switching between them as desired. AI powered translations that rival humans. DeepL provides the highest levels of accuracy in translation of any service available. Fluency has been used in many production sites around the world and in commercial applications where accuracy matters. Deliver impressive battle-tested translation features your clients can count on. Disable translation for individual fields. Disable translation for multilanguage fields where values aren't candidates for translation such as phone numbers or email addresses Configure translation caching. Caching can be enabled globally so that the same content translated more than once anywhere in ProcessWire doesn't count against your API usage and provides lightning fast responses. Set globally ignored words and text. Configure Fluency to add exclusionary indicators during translation so that specific words or phrases remain untranslated. This works either for specific strings alone, or present in other content while remaining grammatically correct in translation. Choose how translation is handled for fields. Configure Fluency to have buttons for either "Translate from {default language}" on each tab, or "Translate To All Languages" to populate every language for a field from any language to any language you have configured. No language limits. Configure as few or as many languages as you need. 2, 5, 10, 20 language website? Absolutely possible. If the translation service you choose offers a language, you can use it in ProcessWire. When new languages are introduced by third parties, they're ready to use in Fluency. Visually see what fields and language tabs have modified content. Fluency adds an visual indication to each field language tab to indicate which has different content than when opening the edit page. This helps ensure that content updated in one language should be updated in other languages to prevent content divergence between languages. Render language meta tags and ISO codes. Output alt language meta tags, add the current language's ISO code to your <html lang=""> attribute to your templates that are automatically generated from accurate data from the third party translation service. Build a standards-compliant multi-language SEO ready page in seconds with no additional configuration. Render language select elements. - Fluency can generate an unordered list of language links to switch between languages when viewing your pages. You can also embed a <select> element with JS baked in to switch between languages when viewing your pages. Render it without JS to use your own. Manage feature access for users. Fluency provides a permission that can be assigned to user roles for managing who can translate content. Track your translation account usage. View your current API usage, API account limit, and remaining allotment to keep an eye on and manage usage. (Currently only offered by DeepL) Use the global translation tool. Fluency provides translation on each field according to the languages you configure in ProcessWire. Use the global translation tool to translate any content to any language. Use Fluency from your templates and code. All translation features, usage statistics, cache control, and language data are accessible globally from the $fluency object. Perform any operation and get data for any language programmatically wherever you need it. Build custom AJAX powered admin translation features for yourself. Fluency provides a full RESTful API within the ProcessWire admin to allow developers to add new features for ProcessWire applications powered by the same API that Fluency uses. Robust plain-language documentation that helps you get up to speed fast. Fluency is extremely easy to use but also includes extensive documentation for all features both within the admin and for the Fluency programming API via the README.md document. The module code itself is also fully annotated for use with the ProDevTools API explorer. Is and will always be data safe. Adding, upgrading, or removing Fluency does not modify or remove your content. ProcessWire handles your data, Fluency sticks to translating. Full module localization. Translate Fluency itself to any language. All buttons, messages, and UI elements for Fluency will be presented in any language you choose for the ProcessWire admin. Built for expansion. Fluency provides translation services as modular "Translation Engines" with a full framework codebase to make adding new translation services easier and more reliable. Contributions for new translation services are welcome. Fluency is designed and built to provide everything you need to handle incredibly accurate translations and robust tools that make creating and managing multi-language sites a breeze. Built through research on translation plugins from around the web, it's the easiest and most friendly translation implementation for both end users and developers on any CMS/CMF anywhere. Fluency complements the built-in first class language features of ProcessWire. Fluency continues to be improved with great suggestions from the community and real-world use in production applications. Big thanks to everyone who has helped make Fluency better. Contributions, suggestions, and bug reports welcome! Please note that the browser plugin for Grammarly conflicts with Fluency (as it does with many web applications). To address this issue it is recommended that you disable Grammarly when using Fluency, or open the admin to edit pages in a private window where Grammarly may not be loaded. This is a long-standing issue in the larger web development community and creating a workaround may not be possible. If you have insight as to how this may be solved please visit the Github page and file a bugfix ticket. Enhancements Translate All Fields On A Page Compatibility with newest rewrite of module is in progress... An exciting companion module has been written by @robert which extends the functionality of Fluency to translate all fields on a page at once. The module has several useful features that can make Fluency even more useful and can come in handy for translating existing content more quickly. I recommend reading his comments for details on how it works and input on best practices later in this thread. Get the module at the Github repo: https://github.com/robertweiss/ProcessTranslatePage Requirements: ProcessWire 3.0+ UIKit Admin Theme That's Fluency in a nutshell. The Module Is Free This is my first real module and I want to give it back to the community as thanks. This is the best CMS I've worked with (thank you Ryan & contributors) and a great community (thank you dear reader). DeepL Developer Accounts In addition to paid Pro Developer accounts, DeepL now offers no-cost free accounts. All ProcessWire developers and users can use Fluency at no cost. Learn more about free and paid accounts by visiting the DeepL website. Sign up for a Developer account, get an API key, and start using Fluency. Download You can install Fluency by adding the module to your ProcessWire project using any of the following methods. Method 1: Within ProcessWire using 'Add Module From Directory' and the class name Fluency Method 2: Via Composer with composer require firewire/fluency Method 3: Download from the Github repository and unzip the contents into /site/modules/ Feedback File issues and feature requests here (your feedback and testing is greatly appreciated): https://github.com/SkyLundy/Fluency/issues Thank you! ¡Gracias! Ich danke Ihnen! Merci! Obrigado! Grazie! Dank u wel! Dziękuję! Спасибо! ありがとうございます！ 谢谢你

I was listening to Full Stack Radio recently (hosted by Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS) and his guest for this particular episode discussed proper usage of HTML elements. It's worth a listen, especially when touching upon accessibility (overall it's a great podcast for developers): https://fullstackradio.com/118 They got into the topic of heading outline hierarchy within pages and this is something I had to do a deep dive into a few months ago for a site I made, since the client had a 3rd party SEO company do some reports which highlighted the heading structure on various pages. While optimizing the site, I got headingsMap, a very helpful Chrome extension which outputs the heading hierarchy of a page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/headingsmap/flbjommegcjonpdmenkdiocclhjacmbi?hl=en I then went on a spree with this extension and tested various popular website home pages and based on at least 100 different sites, there's only one site that really does a pristine job with heading hierarchies, and that's apple.com. I'm kind of baffled that only Apple actually took the effort do it correctly. So I'm asking you all here: which sites have you found that do it correctly and don't sweep this under the proverbial rug? The headingsMap Chrome extension has made me think twice when marking up some headings on a site that I'm developing and the use of "screen reader only" / visually hidden classes (which hides the text without using display:none, as display:none removes it from the hierarchy). Since many of us here use UIkit, I asked them to create a native visually hidden type class: https://github.com/uikit/uikit/issues/3967#issuecomment-648920911 Right now, I use CSS Tricks' suggestion located in this article: https://css-tricks.com/places-its-tempting-to-use-display-none-but-dont/ Bootstrap already has the sr-only class which is the same. This has other implications as well, like when customizing a page builder with something like repeater matrix. While it affords clients/non technical people the ability to build a page, it's worth taking the headings generated by the matrix-type templates into consideration.

Five years after I started translating, I have completed all translations for the core / core modules. Hurrah! From now on, translations for upcoming versions of ProcessWire will be tagged as releases with the ProcessWire version name at Releases – processwire-norwegian-language-pack-nb-no – GitHub.

@bartelsmedia Back with good news a year and a half later... I am working on a ProcessWire DeepL integration. I just posted details about it today with a full rundown, screenshots, and an alpha version download. This thread stuck with me and I kept checking back with DeepL to keep tabs on their API availability and as of spring 2020 they are allowing subscriptions from within the US. It only costs $5.49 per month and is worth every penny. I'm going to be launching a new website for our company in the next few weeks so I'll be using it in production and refining it. Really glad this came in time for that project because it's going to save a lot of headaches! If anyone wants to spend a couple of bucks on an API subscription, download the module, and help out with testing it would be great to get feedback. Read more about it here on this post

We got hit by hurricane/tropical storm Zeta overnight Wednesday and it took down the power lines in our neighborhood, and in many places in Atlanta. We aren’t supposed to get the electricity back till Monday, though I’m hoping they might surprise us and have it back sooner. But I’m basically offline other than my cell phone, charged in the car. I work off a desktop computer (iMac) so not able to do any kind of computer work until the electricity is back. As a result, I don’t have any updates for you this week. Though I was making great progress on the ProcessWire modules directory site up until the storm came through and we lost electricity. For now my job is to keep the flashlights working and find ways to keep what’s left of the food from going bad (since the fridge/freezer is also offline). The same thing happened with hurricane Irma, back in ProcessWire 3.0.75. It took out the power for several days. Though we weren’t in the middle of a covid hotspot back then. The deal is that Atlanta has a lot of big old trees, and all the power lines are above ground. So any time a significant storm rolls through, it knocks down a tree, the tree knocks down a power line, and the power goes out. Atlanta is pretty big, so multiply that by a few hundred trees and power lines (and a pandemic), and much of the city is out for awhile. Even a little storm sometimes knocks out the power for a few hours. That’s just one of the joys of where I live. I’m sorry about that, but since we’re supposed to be back online by Monday, I expect to have good updates for you next week. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Hi @daniels, Yes, the subscribe method works very well. I have just tried and all the fields are correctly updated. Thank you for your module, this really speeds up my work.

Dreams come true! You should put up a donation link.

This is absurdely awesome good news! We spent the last year in the basement busy with copy & paste from/to DeepL and this could come to an an end now.

Hey all, open issues are fixed in 0.0.6 (changelog), you can update it now. I would strongly recommend to update it, as there were major issues regarding subscription of new users. Thanks for your help and patience! Keep me updated if you run into errors ❤️

We have created a module to create BlurHash strings for images while uploading in ProcessWire. This blurry images will be saved in the database because they are very small (20-30 characters) and can be used for Data-URL's as placeholders for image-lazy loading. https://github.com/blue-tomato/ImageBlurhash E.g. where we use this in production: https://www.blue-tomato.com/en-INT/blue-world/ https://www.blue-tomato.com/en-INT/blue-world/products/girls-are-awesome/ https://www.blue-tomato.com/en-INT/buyers-guides/skateboard/skateboard-decks/ https://www.blue-tomato.com/en-INT/team/anna-gasser/

There's a link for that in the module config page. Was hidden in the screenshot for simplicity.

Hey @Marco Ro, you should be able to update user information with the subscribe method. If a user is already subscribed, it overwrites / sets field values. Let me know if this doesn’t work. Users can not update their mail adress though. In general, users can probably update their data and settings via Mailchimps preferences link directly in MC. The module is not meant to be a Mailchimp database editor, viewer or sync, it is mostly made to add People to MC without saving their personal data on the webspace.

This looks amazing!! Thank you for your hard work and generosity! Super contribution to ProcessWire!

Awesome!

I did another test on Apple's website just now and it's actually not "perfect" either (maybe it was a few months ago). See screenshot.

I had the same problem and it had me perplexed for a while. My Command Line Interface script bootstraps ProcessWire and then fails without even the tiniest hint of an error message. In my case, the problem was that code from /site/ready.php was being executed when ProcessWire was bootstrapped. The code I had in /site/ready.php was only intended for execution in specific situations while web browsing (not CLI). So I took the code inside that file and wrapped it inside this: if(php_sapi_name() !== "cli") { // code inside /site/ready.php }

Hi, that is ok. because ProcessWire by default in that case return Page ID (response from __toString() method inside Page class). And, as example to get page "title" append field name: echo $page->category->title; If it is array of pages you can iterate: foreach($page->categories as $category){ echo $category->title; } There are also many other options inside PW api, and as example, to get single Page item inside Pages you can get it by index: // get first category title $n = 0; echo $page->categories->eq($n)->title; More about Page or Pages. Regards.

Hi @thetuningspoon I think so, but don't know for sure. It's definitely worth a try ? This is a sample sql that RF3 generates: https://github.com/baumrock/rockfinder3#dumping-the-sql-of-the-finder Why? Do you need to query lots of pages and fields and then return a subset of that? Yeah, why not. Just try RF3 and add such a method as PR ? https://github.com/baumrock/RockFinder3/blob/40da7c5f087d87bc33d883add5b78cf7c546bacd/RockFinder3.module.php#L356 Sounds like another great PR ? I don't want do sound like "do that yourself"... I'm happy to implement anything you need. But I don't have the time and energy to do that for free atm. Hope that helps ?