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While the version remains at 3.0.181 this week, there have been several core updates committed to the dev branch containing a mixture of issue fixes, new features, core optimizations and upgrades. This is likely to continue for another minor version or two while we prepare for our next master branch release. The most visible improvements this week can be found in ProcessField and ProcessTemplate (aka Setup > Fields, Setup > Templates). The main list of fields (Setup > Fields) has been improved with some new supported icon indicators that now identify fields that have template overrides/context settings, among others. All of the existing icon indicators have also been updated with contextual links so that clicking them takes you to the relevant part in the template editor. My favorite update here though is that the "Type" column in the fields list now indicates the Inputfield type in cases where it matters. For instance, rather than saying "Textarea" for the "body" field, it now says "Textarea/CKEditor". Likewise, Page and Options fields indicate what kind of input is used (i.e. "Page/AsmSelect" or "Options/Checkboxes"), as do some other types. Clicking on the "Templates" quantity now takes you to the "Add/remove from templates" field, rather than just showing you a list of templates. Similar updates were made to the ProcessTemplate main list of templates (Setup > Templates) though there wasn't as much to do there. Once you are actually editing a template, the instructions on the "Basics" tab have been improved to clarify what you can do on this screen. For instance, many don't know that you can click a field name/label to edit it in context, or that you can click and drag the percent indicator to adjust the field's width in the editor, all from this tab in the template editor. Now the description outlines these features. When you select a new field to add to your template, it now reveals a note that clarifies you must save before the field becomes editable in the context of that template. These are minor updates, but combined I think they add significant clarity, especially for new users. Stepping outside of the core, I've been working quite a bit this week on the PagesSnapshots module I told you about a couple of weeks ago. It lets you save or restore snapshot versions of pages, and it doesn't have any notable limitations in terms of fields. At this stage it is working fully with repeaters, matrix repeaters, nested repeaters, Page Tables and even paginated Table fields with thousands of rows. It can restore to the original page, to a new page, or to another page of your choice. And it is very fast. Eventually ProDrafts will use its API to handle saving and publishing of draft versions. Initially I plan to release it in one or more of the existing module sets (like ProDevTools or ProDrafts or both), and longer term it may be added to the core. I've got another week or two of work to cover with it, but at this stage the API is fully functional and working well, so I'm now beginning to focus more on the Process module (user interface) side of it. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Inertia Adapter ProcessWire Module Hello! Long time no see. I created this module so you can use Inertia.js (https://inertiajs.com/) with ProcessWire. Description Inertia allows you to create fully client-side rendered, single-page apps, without much of the complexity that comes with modern SPAs. It does this by leveraging existing server-side frameworks. Inertia isn’t a framework, nor is it a replacement to your existing server-side or client-side frameworks. Rather, it’s designed to work with them. Think of Inertia as glue that connects the two. Inertia comes with three official client-side adapters (React, Vue, and Svelte). This is an adapter for ProcessWire. Inertia replaces PHP views altogether by returning JavaScript components from controller actions. Those components can be built with your frontend framework of choice. Links - https://github.com/joyofpw/inertia - https://github.com/joyofpw/inertia-svelte-mix-pw - https://inertiajs.com/ Screenshots

Pete and I have been using Postmark in some PW based projects at reasonable scale (>13k emails a month) and have found it to be an exceptionally good API-based transactional email provider with fast delivery times and great availability. It seems strange that there is no WireMail offering (as far as we know of anyway) that supports Postmark, so we thought we'd throw one together in case anyone else in the community wants to give Postmark a try. NB: This is not the code we use in our production systems, just a rainy-day project to fill a gap in the WireMail ecosystem. However, it should be sufficient to get you going with Postmark. We hope you find it useful and please let us know if you find any issues. WireMailPostmark module on Netcarver's github account. Screenshot from my test account:

Reputation count is now back next to post count ?

I'll see what I can do about the rep count - in the meantime I've done something someone else asked for (and my older eyes needed) - increased font size on mobile. I haven't gone too far with it but it's a lot better than 13px ?

@horst Gotcha - https://github.com/millipedia/millco-diceware

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

Hi all, we made a small module for sending SMS via Sms77.io. It supports sending to one and multiple users. You can download it from GitHub and follow the instructions on how to install it - it is quite easy. An API key is required for sending, get yours for free @ Sms77 and receive 0,50 €. Hope this helps somebody and we are open for improvement suggestions! Best regards André

I typically start with the raw HTML output design and as I work I notice elements that I use often and break those into partials. In my _main I typically have the spacing and grid scaffolding for most items with the understanding I may embed nested structure as part of my individual page template, and then I will load includes into those embedded areas as needed. I see _main as the foundation and outer walls of the house. I see the page templates with their regions as different layouts of walls/rooms within that house. I see the furniture and features of the rooms of the house as partial includes. Whether you choose for the rooms themselves to be adaptable or not is really up to you. It isn't necessary to use partials at all, but I find it cuts down a little bit on the template counts. A common tradeoff seems to be between the amount of code you put into your template file region replacements/append/prepend etc vs the number of different templates you have, and whether you want the presentation routing to be directed more by the selection of the templates or programmatic responses to data in the fields your templates use. It is possible to have very few template files that reroute and alter the display based on tons of selections made on the pages themselves, or it is possible to have individual templates for all of the different scenarios you may want to come up with - but for complicated sites I tend to prefer fewer templates, more function controls. I would say that for the end user having lots of templates and transparent choices/structure on the pw backend is safer with clients. Because you can control a lot of things about adding new content, etc. it is less likely that the user may alter some value and cause some other glitches on the site that you don't expect unless you are pretty strict with your unit testing. But if you have code content that is really never anything the client is going to have to be actively involved in, bringing stuff like that into the code side keeps down the clutter. Hanna code sits somewhere in the middle and I always feel like it is playing with fire but that's a pretty happy bridge between the two worlds if you want to try to give placement control to the client but want to maintain logic control.

Thanks, rick. It seems I only had to update the config with the new DB details. Anything I could have missed in the htaccess? Saw this part, but did not need to change anything: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?it=$1 [L,QSA] # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 500 NOTE: If using VirtualDocumentRoot: comment out the one above and use this one instead. # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?it=$1 [L,QSA]

Hi Mark, you are my hero of the day! ?

A while back we had to import a few hundred users into PW from a site we were porting over. I needed to generate new passwords for them that matched our PW password requirements and couldn't find anything super useful so I scraped together a word list and a quick bit of code to spit out a list of reasonable diceware type passwords. Since then it's been surprisingly useful so I've tidied things up a bit and put it on Github in case anyone else could make us of it. There's a demo and Github link at https://millipedia.com/millco-diceware/ It's pretty simple and very Anglo-centric ... and possibly not suitable if you're a secret government agency ... but hey, it might come in handy.

Doh, I clearly haven't got the hang of making links yet. Updated now though. https://github.com/millipedia/millco-diceware

OK I understand ? Maybe you could cache the result of a findRaw() ? That should be a plain php array that you can use for foreach and dynamic "active" class? ? But still not sure if what you found is an issue or just a limitation... maybe ryan tells us something about it.

There seems to be NO (functional) Github link. For me the link opens the demo again. ??

I don't know anything about the issue, but for a quick solution: Why don't you cache the resulting markup instead of the pagearray?

Bit me once again today :) In this case I did have that module installed, but even after disabling it, I still had issues with a particular template where I had specifically set noLang in the advanced template settings, so watch out for that.

Hi, have a site where I set up a news category, then under that I have different regions where editors in those regions can add news stories. I'm trying to figure out how to allow each editor to only add/edit stories in their region, and not allow editors from other regions to edit them. example: News (template:news-category) Washington County (template:news-region) My First News Story for Washington County by Editor 1 (template:news-article) Jefferson County (template:news-region) A News Story by the jefferson county editor (template:news-article) Taylor County (template:news-region) A news story by a Taylor county editor (template:news-article) I really don't want to create 3 different news-region templates along with 3 different news-article variations, and 3 different types of Editor roles. Is there a way / module that will let me say, "jane which is an editor can only add and edit to Washington County" and "bill which is an editor can only add or edit to Taylor County", etc? Also, it would be nice to allow the "home office" editor to add/delete/modify contents created by the other editors, a "Super Editor" if you will. Thanks mucho!

You can achieve this with hooks to Page::addable and Page::editable. 1. Define access controls for the news-region and news-article templates so that users with the news-editor role can add children under news-region pages and they can edit and create news-article pages. 2. Create a news_regions Page Reference field which allows pages with template news-region. Best to make it a "multiple" AsmSelect field so it covers the potential case that a user needs to add/edit within multiple regions. Add this field to the user template. 3. Edit the news-editor users and set the regions they are allowed to add/edit within. 4. In /site/ready.php: $wire->addHookAfter('Page::addable', function(HookEvent $event) { /** @var Page $page */ $page = $event->object; $user = $event->wire()->user; // Return early if PW has already determined that the user is not allowed to add if(!$event->return) return; if($user->hasRole('news-editor') && $page->template == 'news-region') { // Addability depends on if the news_regions Page Reference field has the page $event->return = $user->news_regions->has($page); } }); $wire->addHookAfter('Page::editable', function(HookEvent $event) { /** @var Page $page */ $page = $event->object; $user = $event->wire()->user; // Return early if PW has already determined that the user is not allowed to edit if(!$event->return) return; if($user->hasRole('news-editor') && $page->template == 'news-article') { // Editability depends on if the news_regions Page Reference field has the parent page $event->return = $user->news_regions->has($page->parent); } }); The result for user "ringo": You could add all the regions to that user's page, but personally I would create a different news-supereditor role and just not make them subject to the restrictions in the hooks.

But this isn't a solution for touch devices which don't have a hover state, and we all know that touch devices are a big share of internet use. There's discussion in the Invision Community support forums about how to bring back reputation points into the author pane (some of which I can't see but maybe @Pete can)... https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/462326-current-ranks-–-and-–-reputation/ https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/462099-bring-back-reputation-in-userinfopane/ Could we implement that here? Also, it would be nice to bring back custom member titles for those who had them (e.g. Ryan's reiska title): https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/462409-46-how-to-restore-custom-member-titles/

At this time everyone knows Live Chat is the important feature for the businesses. It helps to improve the revenue as well as encourage the customers to repeat the purchases. So, we all need to add the live chat module on our business websites. Thanks for sharing these easy steps to add the module.

As long as your virtual hosts file points each domain to the proper doc root, you should not have any issues moving domain2 over to the domain1 host and run it in a sub dir. I do this many times with clients. You may also need to update domain2 htaccess and config.

Process Images A basic, proof-of-concept Textformatter module for ProcessWire. When the Textformatter is applied to a rich text field it uses Simple HTML DOM to find <img> tags in the field value and passes each img node through a hookable TextformatterProcessImages::processImg() method. This is a very simple module that doesn't have any configurable settings and doesn't do anything to the field value unless you hook the TextformatterProcessImages::processImg() method. Hook example When added to /site/ready.php the hook below will replace any Pageimages in a rich text field with a 250px square variation and wrap the <img> tag in a link to the original full-size image. For help with Simple HTML DOM refer to its documentation. $wire->addHookAfter('TextformatterProcessImages::processImg', function(HookEvent $event) { // The Simple HTML DOM node for the <img> tag /** @var \simple_html_dom_node $img */ $img = $event->arguments(0); // The Pageimage in the <img> src, if any (will be null for external images) /** @var Pageimage $pageimage */ $pageimage = $event->arguments(1); // The Page object in case you need it /** @var Page $page */ $page = $event->arguments(2); // The Field object in case you need it /** @var Field $field */ $field = $event->arguments(3); // Only for images that have a src corresponding to a PW Pageimage if($pageimage) { // Set the src to a 250x250 variation $img->src = $pageimage->size(250,250)->url; // Wrap the img in a lightbox link to the original $img->outertext = "<a class='lightboxclass' href='{$pageimage->url}'>{$img->outertext}</a>"; } }); GitHub: https://github.com/Toutouwai/TextformatterProcessImages Modules directory: https://processwire.com/modules/textformatter-process-images/

Now solved. For the benefit of others, you need to set the sort property of the repeater rather than use a custom property. i.e. for each repeater page: $subPage->sort = $j; // where $j is the required sort index $subPage->save(); then after all 'subPages' have been set: $page->$repeaterName->sort('sort'); and save the page.

I've been itching to show this one off for ages.... JoinTheRez.com is the companion website to a science fiction podcast and comic which aims to help pre-teens build emotional resilence and mental well being. The story includes supportive themes and messages based on research by the University of Sussex CRESS Lab led by Professor Robin Banerjee, Professor of Kindness at the University of Sussex (no really). In the comic, which is set in the future, our heroes are able to contact young people in the current day using a mobile phone. We ran with this idea to create a phone interface for the site which enables users to undertake lots of different activities including games (Fart Cow Frisbee!) , puzzles, a podcast player, and even recording audio messages to send to the characters. There's a section for adults which includes lesson plans and teaching resources. We used PW to allow the client to manage various bits of content including messages, a news feed and the podcasts themselves. We created a bespoke module for an online Survey for the site as well building the code to handle distribution of the podcasts including the RSS feed and scheduled release of episodes - although in the end the podcast was picked up by GenZ / PRX in the states so they are handling the audio feed now. Notable modules we used were: ProCache (first time we've used it - works well) ProForms (for a contact form, we ended up building our own module for a more complex survey) Tracey Debugger (of course). It was a lot of work - I did have to spend much too long chosing the best fart noises for some of the games - but it was a lot of fun.

Summary: When you start a new site and the default not should be english: 1) enable languages support 2) set Title / Label of the default language to your desired none english native language, (e.g. 'Deutsch' (German)) 3) drop in the none english language pack (for admin backend) into the default language, (e.g. german langpack) Now you are ready to start with a single language site of your choice. If you want to use a multi language site, you now can add as many additional languages you want. If one of them should be english, you add it, but do not need to apply a language pack. 4) add a new language to it and drop in a language pack for any none english language or simply don't drop in a language pack to get the english version (but not as the default one!) For single language sites you only need to enable languages support, NOT language inputfields!, NOT language pagenames!, only basic language support, - to be able to change the default languages name and its lang pack! Of course, if you plan a multilanguage site, you also will need language pagenames and language inputfields, but not if you only need a none english backend. ? So, if you know at the beginning of a new site / project what has to be the default language, it is done with a snip. Only disadvantage is, if you need to switch the default language later on, when already content was filled into a site. These seems to be very rare cases in real life. And for that I think have read a complete step by step guide from @BitPoet within the last two or three month somewhere. (Is this right @BitPoet ? and sorry for ping you here) You also can read it here:

So I'm the looser coding my hook on every site ?

I implemented a very basic caching strategy for GraphQL queries with the help of PW’s native $cache methods. Here’s how my graphql.php template looks like: <?php namespace ProcessWire; $namespace = 'graphql'; $serializedQuery = file_get_contents('php://input'); $cacheName = hash('md5', $serializedQuery); $cacheData = $cache->getFor($namespace, $cacheName); if (!$cacheData) { $cacheData = $modules->get('ProcessGraphQL')->executeGraphQL(); $cacheSaved = $cache->saveFor($namespace, $cacheName, $cacheData, $expire = 604800); $log->save('graphql', "cache saved $cacheSaved with name $cacheName"); } echo json_encode($cacheData, true); When saving a page in the backend, for now I just clear the whole cache associated with this namespace (inside ready.php ) <?php namespace ProcessWire; $pages->addHookAfter('saveReady', function($event) { $deleted = wire('cache')->deleteFor('graphql'); if ($deleted) wire('log')->save('graphql', 'cache deleted'); }); Serializing the whole query just to get a unique cache name obviously isn’t optimal. How about if the module supported globally unique IDs that could then be used as cache name instead?

Here's a working example for you: <?php namespace ProcessWire; $showForm = true; if ($input->post->upload) { $tempDir = wire()->files->tempDir('userUploads')->get(); $uploaded = (new WireUpload('uploadedFile')) // same as form field name ->setValidExtensions(['txt', 'png', 'jpg', 'pdf']) ->setMaxFiles(1) // remove this to allow multiple files ->setMaxFileSize(10 * pow(2, 20))// 10MB ->setDestinationPath($tempDir) ->execute(); // $page = $pages->get(1234); foreach ($uploaded as $file) { $filePath = $tempDir . $file; // $page->files->add($filePath); echo $filePath . "<br>"; } // $page->save('files'); if (count($uploaded)) { echo sprintf("Uploaded %d files", count($uploaded)); $showForm = false; } } ?> <?php if ($showForm): ?> <?php // Adding enctype is crucial!! ?> <form method="POST" action="./" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <label for="uploadedFile"> Upload: <?php // suffix name with [] and add multiple attribute if you allow multiple files ?> <input type="file" name="uploadedFile[]" id="uploadedFile" multiple> </label> <div> <button name="upload" value="1">Upload</button> </div> </form> <?php endif; ?>