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Hi @ryan. I was thinking, would it be possible to enhance this feature so that you could copy multiple repeater items to memory and paste them at once (and respect copied depth as well)?

Ladies and gentlemen. You have been waiting for a very long time. I am happy to say we are almost there. I am fixing a few loose ends in readiness for the launch. I will create a new thread outlining the way forward with alpha (early beta) testing later this week (barring any show stoppers) or next week at the latest. Thanks.

I'd say it's just a question of a missing "echo" in front of page()->render('callout');

@Ivan Gretsky Sure, I can add that.

Like last week, this week, updates continued on the core and matrix repeater fields. Repeater and matrix fields can now be configured to use fewer pages. When set, it won't create placeholder pages for repeater items until at least one repeater item exists for a given page and field. This can drastically reduce the number of pages consumed by repeaters in your system, and even more so if you are nesting repeaters. Eventually, this will become the default setting, but for now we are playing it safe and making it optional with a new toggle that you'll find on the Details tab when editing a repeater or matrix field: After enabling the "Use fewer pages..." Setting, the "Find an optionally delete unnecessary pages" checkbox will take care of cleaning up anything that isn't necessary for existing repeaters already in the database. If you have a large site with a lot of repeaters, this could be deleting a lot of now irrelevant stuff, so just be aware of that and backup ahead of time to be safe. Thanks to @Jonathan Lahijani for the idea/suggestion. Also new this week is the ability to copy and paste repeater items, as well as to clone above or below existing items. It handles this by replacing the existing "clone" icon action with a dialog that now lets you choose among various related actions. Among them is the ability to copy/paste from the same page or between different pages. The only requirement is that the repeater (or matrix) items are from the same field. See the video below for an example of how this works: This works with either Repeater or Repeater Matrix fields. But if you want this feature in Repeater Matrix, you'll want to upgrade to ProcessWire 3.0.188 and download the new version posted today (v8 beta) in the ProFields download thread. The ability to copy/paste repeater items was an idea originally from @David Karich and a module he developed called Repeater Matrix Item Duplicator. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

If you're trying to duplicate a site, and don't have access to mySQL, then there are couple of modules that may be helpful. https://processwire.com/modules/process-database-backups/ This one can be helpful if you have an existing ProcessWire installation that's working, but need to restore data from a backup. https://processwire.com/modules/process-export-profile/ This one is useful if you're starting a completely new install of ProcessWire and you want to recreate an existing site structure during the install process. This will include templates, site modules, and page structure. You need to copy the exported profile to the new site profiles directory before you install, so that it allows you to select the profile during the install process. This will recreate the database structure. You will need to be able to set up a blank mySQL (or MariaDB) database and assign a database user with full access to it. There are other migration modules if you have a development site and a live site, and you only want to transfer changes.

Hi! ProcessWire stores all its data in a MySQL database. You don't seem to mention that in your post so I'll give a wild guess that it's a part that might be missing. Is the copy of the project running locally or on a server?

Same. I’m actually hoping I can use it outside of the typical shop site. I want to build an app that allows for invoicing/payment through Stripe for 1-up items and most importantly being able to run a query in PW that searches pages and then invoices them all as **one** invoice. Padloper probably is overkill for that though. There’s probably already something available in modules that would do the job. But anyways, I’ll be supporting Padloper for sure.

@kongondo so keen to get involved with the alpha release if possible! Got some projects that I’ve always held off on with the e-commerce aspect, knowing that I’d rather keep my clients onboard with processwire and the new evolution of padloper. Exciting!!! ??

I think perhaps PHP's error reporting just became more strict since I built this module and previously it let me be a bit sloppy in the code. hence that error when no subtitles were entered. Thanks for the kind words!

@adrian @Jonathan Lahijani Consider those warnings to just be strong suggestions. If you want to ignore them, it's likely okay, but for most (including me) I would avoid colliding repeater matrix type names with field names because it's a source of confusion. I think I had also identified a case where it could a problem. I don't remember exactly what it was, but do remember it was possible enough to warrant displaying warnings about it, but unlikely enough to be okay to ignore if everything otherwise works. @wbmnfktr Turns out thats a leftover debugging/development message which is blank because the value it's showing is empty unless you use the images feature. It should only appear when editing the matrix field (Setup > Fields) and is okay to ignore. I'll make sure it's removed in the next update. Thanks.

Just pushed PW 3.0.188 and the RepeaterMatrix v8 beta to a side-project as it's a nice testing ground for this and it works perfectly fine. No errors or problems so far. The new icon option makes it super clean - if you want. Yet and empty entry with just an icon came up each and every time I updated the RepeaterMatrix field, even when I just opened it.

@adrian That issue has been there for a couple years. I spoke about it with Ryan on a thread in the RM forum, but I can't find it. You can ignore those errors. I do however wish they would not appear since it feels like like a bug.

IMPORTANT ALERT!!! Hi everyone, I had a site today that was loading really slowly for the first view for guest users. Turns out the https://restcountries.eu API that this module uses to determine if the user is in Europe is down at the moment, so loading of the site was waiting on a timeout from the failed call to the API. Now obviously the correct thing to do is for this part of the module (if enabled) to make this call asynchronously via AJAX so that it doesn't impact the loading of the site. The logic also needs to be updated so that the banner is also displayed if it can't find the visitor's region. At the moment it only works as a fallback if it can't get their IP address, which is obviously not very useful if the APIs are down.

I've just recoded a brief video where I've tried to explain how to install tailwind inside Processwire ( really badly spoken ? , so be kind...) Moreover I've updated the gist here to reflect the changes I've made since the last time I've written the guide above. There you have it:

Hello everyone, Recently I spent some time researching how I can update my workflow. I really enjoy working with TailwindCSS however, when it comes to Javascript, I often find myself having to search around to find a good package. Often I find myself having a package for lazy loading, a package for sliders, a package for animation, a package for parallax and a package for ajax. Before you know it, you are worrying about dependicies, conflicts and vunrabilities for many different packages. Since the push is to get rid of jQuery and use native javascript, often each will have their own utility classes, some of which do the same thing. This adds a lot of bulk to the website. This is what I love about UIKit, it provides plenty of functionality for a small ~130KB unminified. Not many know this, but the UIKit helper classes are exposed via the API too. So it means you will not have to worry about your javascript working cross-browser (https://github.com/uikit/uikit-site/blob/feature/js-utils/docs/pages/javascript-utilities.md). The perfect thing would be to combine UIKit and TailwindCSS, but the best way to achieve this is up for grabs. I personally use TailwindCSS base and implement components from UIKit. I then use PurgeCSS on the CSS file to make sure anything unused by either UIKit or Tailwind isn't making it to production. I do this using Parcel JS. I have used Webpack and Gulp previously, but I find Parcel is a simple and easy way to get a project started (and it's fast!). The next thing I've found is UIKit is not always the answer. There are now more than ever better ways of achieving things in browser. Such as CSS Grid, `position: sticky`, and `object-fit` try to use these CSS alternatives where possible. Purge will always make sure that you get the smallest possible file size, so avoid using the uk-grid element where possible and use CSS Grid. I have setup a github starter template (https://github.com/TomS-/UIKit-TailwindCSS/tree/master) if you want to have a look at it. CSS Grid will introduce intrinsic design (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ2JX_6SGNI - Great series) Next will be to use WebP, there is plenty going around on the blogs now about this, but this will make a massive improvement to your Google Page Insight rating (https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tikari.co.uk%2F&tab=desktop). I would love to hear your web manifesto - and ask me anything about mine ?

This is quite weird... I just noticed today that when I edit a page, the last breadcrumb item doesn't link to the page's parent, but to the main /page view. It shows the correct title though. The link is correct for all the parent pages further up. Just the immediate parent page breadcrumb link doesn't get added the usual /page/?open=123. Admittedly, I have been tinkering about with several site settings today (mainly users/roles/permissions - but I was always logged in as superuser, so that hardly could interfere with this issue), so I'm afraid some of those changes might have broken some stuff. Does anyone else see the same behavior? ProcessWire: 3.0.125 PHP: 7.2.14 Webserver: Apache/2.4 MySQL: 10.1.35-MariaDB Admin Theme: UIKit Are there hooks where you can change admin-breadcrumbs behavior like that?