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This week I kept working on what's been in progress the last couple of weeks. That wasn't really the plan, as I was hoping to move on to other parts of the core. But I found it a took a lot of time to adjust everything to the new code and classes, and to refactor and remove other chunks of code that could either be simplified or removed. So these last few weeks of updates took a lot more time than I expected, and it's one of those things where once I got into it I felt I had to keep working until it was done as well as it could be. That meant getting pretty deep into some core logic. So in hindsight I'm slightly regretting refactoring so much code without major short-term benefits that can make more interesting reading here. And there are perhaps some short-term drawbacks in potentially introducing new bugs, as goes with any new code. But that's how it is sometimes. The good news is that it's a definite improvement in quality and I have no doubt there will be long term benefits especially in terms of improved performance and maintainability. But in any case, I'm glad to be wrapping up these particular updates so that I can move on to other parts of the core and Pro modules, and hopefully I'll have more interesting stuff to write about next time. One small addition you might find useful in these updates is that you can now identify the closest matching page when a 404 occurs. Maybe you want to provide a hint to users that land on a 404 as to what page they might have been looking for. Now you can do this in your 404 page template file: $p = $pages->request()->getClosestPage(); if($p->id > 1) { echo "<p>Were you looking for <a href='$p->url'>$p->title</a>?</p>"; } Like last week I'm not bumping the dev branch core version just yet because I don't want to trigger any upgrade alerts that might prompt people to upgrade immediately. I'd rather focus more on testing and leave these updates to those that are interested in that testing, helping to track down any issues. Thanks in advance for your help with testing these updates. Likewise, thanks for reading, I hope you have a great weekend!

Right - as part of my efforts to show off more of the work we've done recently, here's a site we launched earlier this year. On The Record are a not-for-profit that specialise in oral histories and creative media. We've done a few nice projects with them ( A Hackney Autobiography was a lovely project we did with them in our pre PW days). A creative design was very important to them as well as being accessible and usable. There's not too much bespoke backend coding going on. We needed to provide them with a way of easily adding audio and video files but that was mostly done using normal fields and a modified version of Ryan's TextformatterVideoEmbed module adapted for use on plain text fields. Apart from that, it's just the usual supects for extra modules: ProCache LoginPersist and Macrura's ProcessDocumention module which we normally use for provide help pages in the admin area. The front end is pretty much bespoke but with a few components lifted from various places; looks like we used Bootstrap grid for one. It's another site where we used CSS filter properties to apply a consistent look and feel to images the client uploads. I think it looks nice anyway and the client is very happy with it and took to using the PW admin with no problems.

Great to see those core things evolving. Someone has to look after them. And we all know who that is))

Basically <?php namespace ProcessWire; // create field $field = new Field(); $field->name = 'my_field'; $field->label = 'My Field'; $field->type = 'FieldtypeText'; // save field wire('fields')->save($field); // get field $field = wire('fields')->get('my_field'); // Create fieldgroup $fieldgroup = new Fieldgroup(); // if you want to edit fields in this field group via admin panel, name need to be same with template name $fieldgroup->name = 'my_template'; $fieldgroup->add('title'); $fieldgroup->add('body'); $fieldgroup->add($field); // save fieldgroup wire('fieldgroups')->save($fieldgroup); // get fieldgroup $fieldgroup = wire('fieldgroups')->get('my_template'); // Create template $template = new Template(); $template->name = 'my_template'; $template->label = 'My Template'; $template->fieldgroup = $fieldgroup; // save template wire('templates')->save($template); // get template $template = wire('templates')->get('my_template');