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Hello ProcessWire community, it's been a while since I last shared a project showcase with you all ? Today, I'm excited to present a recent project we've been working on: The website of the Austrian artist Tanja Boukal - www.boukal.at This project has been an interesting journey, and I'm excited to highlight some of the features and solutions we implemented: First off, I had to make the project run on my local development computer. That was quick and easy thanks to DDEV, where you can easily define the setup in a simple yaml file (eg php7.4, mariadb 10.2, etc) and then update the setup to a current one and see what breaks and then apply all updates ? Then, we tackled the challenge of cleaning up everything from the old ProcessWire website (not done by me). The page was quite a mess. I'm not blaming anybody for that, but I guess we all know the problem: The developer has some structure in his/her had and it works great at the beginning. But then the real world kicks in and slightly different needs pop up here and there and quickly the initially planned structure is not sufficient any more. We need a gallery on a page we didn't plan upfront, or we need some additional text above or below some other elements where we don't have Inputfields... So the client ended up creating several pages on the root level to be able to input the desired content and then link wildly to those hidden pages. Actually I think she did a great job, because she got things done without needing help from a developer (which costs money as we all know). During that process and thanks to RockPageBuilder we got rid of many unnecessary templates while providing the client with a lot more flexibility than before ? Before the relaunch: After the relaunch (with AdminStyleRock for styling the backend in the client's colors): Not only was the content on the old PW site structured completely different than on the new one, we also had two WordPress blogs that had been around that we wanted to integrate into the new website. Both RockShell and RockFrontend's DOM-Tools where extremely helpful in that process! We even used @FireWire great Fluency module to translate imported blog posts on the fly! This command is simply put into /site/modules/Site/RockShell/Commands/ImportAegean.php and will then instantly be available to RockShell as import:aegean command ? And then you can run "rockshell import:aegean", watch it do its work and enjoy ? Another pain for the client was that many people in the arts industry still rely on printed information. So she wanted to provide all the information about her work not only on her website but also as downloadable PDFs. On the old website this process was all done manually and whenever she had a new work/catalogue/project to share she had several things to update. Now she only updates that information on one place and RockPdf creates an updated PDF for her - with all entries sorted automatically by date ? As mentioned RockPageBuilder adds a lot of flexibility to the website and makes editing content easier than ever before: But that's not a one-way-road! Where necessary we can still provide a more rigid structure and add custom fields that show up at dedicated places not movable by the client - for example date, cover-picture and teaser-text that should show up on all blog pages at the very top and at the exact same place: After that identical header section the client is free to choose from all available content elements like regular text, downloads or youtube videos (fully gdpr compliant without the client thinking about that). The work section showcases her artworks, projects, exhibitions and catalogues. All are linked to each other with the great ConnectPageFields module. So for example the https://www.boukal.at/work/projects/the-aegean-project/ has several other pages connected and also has its own blog! Ah, every aspect of the website is multilingual, which is also cool and where ProcessWire shines once more - especially with one-click-translations thx to Fluency! Another nice feature is that the page shows indicators for external links: This is a CSS-only solution and quite easy to implement (using LESS syntax): // style external links with icon body > *:not(#tracy-debug):not(.no-icon) { a[href^="http://"]:not([href*="www.boukal.at"]):not(.no-icon):after, a[href^="https://"]:not([href*="www.boukal.at"]):not(.no-icon)::after { content: url("/site/templates/images/external-link.svg"); display: inline-block; position: relative; top: 3px; margin-left: 5px; } } The site has top-notch performance thanks to the brilliant ProCache module and we did do some basic lighthouse optimisations! Hosting is done by me as well and for quality assurance we are monitoring all services with uptime kuma including a monthly report built again with RockPdf ? I find it quite funny that these 6 spikes show loading times of around one second - that's less than the loading time of an average website! All other checks finished within < 100ms (from the same data center). The spikes happen when content is updated and ProCache has to rebuild the static copy of the homepage showing how much of a difference this treasure makes thx to Ryan ? Site statistics are collected using Matomo to provide a great user experience without an annoying cookie banner. Consent for Youtube videos is requested on demand when a video is clicked on. Last but not least all the code is under version control and changes are pushed to the live server simply by doing a git commit (using RockMigrations deployment tools): So once the client requests a change and I'm done with the update I simply do a "git push" and GitHub does the rest and two minutes later the changes are live ??‍♂️ I hope you enjoyed reading and I hope you like the site as much as we do ? I'm happy to hear what you think and if you find something to improve please let us know! ? PS: If you like what you see and want to push your next project to the next level I'm happy to do consulting on an hourly basis so that you can efficiently pull my 10 years of ProcessWire knowledge into your work ? Let's meet at cal.baumrock.com - always happy to see real faces instead of avatars ?

This module won't suit everyone because... It requires what is currently the latest dev version of ProcessWire It requires your server environment have AVIF support Generating AVIF files is slow It offers fewer features than the core provides for WebP It is likely incompatible with the core WebP features so is an either/or prospect ...but it allows for the basic generation and serving of AVIF files until such time as the core provides AVIF features. Auto AVIF Automatically generates AVIF files when image variations are created. The AVIF image format usually provides better compression efficiency than JPG or WebP formats, in many cases producing image files that are significantly smaller in size while also having fewer visible compression artifacts. Requires ProcessWire v3.0.236 or newer. In order to generate AVIF files your environment must have a version of GD or Imagick that supports the AVIF format. If you are using ImageSizerEngineGD (the ProcessWire default) then this means you need PHP 8.1 or newer and an OS that has AVIF support. If you want to use Imagick to generate AVIF files then you must have the core ImageSizerEngineIMagick module installed. The module attempts to detect if your environment supports AVIF and warns you on the module config screen if it finds a problem. Delayed Image Variations Generating AVIF files can be very slow - much slower than creating an equivalent JPG or WebP file. If you want to use this module it's highly recommended that you also install the Delayed Image Variations module so that image variations are created one by one on request rather than all at once before a page renders. Otherwise it's likely that pages with more than a few images will timeout before the AVIF files can be generated. Configuration On the module configuration screen are settings for "Quality (1 – 100)" and "Speed (0 – 9)". These are parameters for the underlying GD and Imagick AVIF generation methods. There is also an option to create AVIF files for existing image variations instead of only new image variations. If you enable this option then all image variations on your site will be recreated the next time they are requested. As per the earlier note, the process of recreating the image variations and the AVIF files is likely to be slow. Usage Just install the module, choose the configuration settings you want, and make the additions to the .htaccess file in the site root described in the next section. How the AVIF files are served The module doesn't have all the features that the ProcessWire core provides for WebP files. It's much simpler and uses .htaccess to serve an AVIF file instead of the original variation file when the visitor's browser supports AVIF and an AVIF file named the same as the variation exists. This may not be compatible with the various approaches the core takes to serving WebP files so you'll want to choose to serve either AVIF files via this module or WebP files via the core but not both. Two additions to the .htaccess file in the site root are needed. 1. Immediately after the RewriteEngine On line: # AutoAvif RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/avif RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !original=1 RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.avif -f RewriteRule (.+)\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$ $1.avif [T=image/avif,E=REQUEST_image,L] 2. After the last line: # AutoAvif <IfModule mod_headers.c> Header append Vary Accept env=REQUEST_image </IfModule> <IfModule mod_mime.c> AddType image/avif .avif </IfModule> Opting out of AVIF generation for specific images If you want to prevent an AVIF file being generated and served for a particular image you can hook AutoAvif::allowAvif and set the event return to false. AutoAvif generates an AVIF file when an image variation is being created so the hookable method receives some arguments relating to the resizing of the requested variation. Example: $wire->addHookAfter('AutoAvif::allowAvif', function(HookEvent $event) { $pageimage = $event->arguments(0); // The Pageimage that is being resized $width = $event->arguments(1); // The requested width of the variation $height = $event->arguments(2); // The requested height of the variation $options = $event->arguments(3); // The array of ImageSizer options supplied // You can check things like $pageimage->field, $pageimage->page and $pageimage->ext here... // Don't create an AVIF file if the file extension is PNG if($pageimage->ext === 'png') $event->return = false; }); Deleting an AVIF file If you delete a variation via the "Variations > Delete Checked" option for an image in an Images field then any corresponding AVIF file is also deleted. And if you delete an image then any AVIF files for that image are also deleted. Deleting all AVIF files If needed you can execute this code snippet to delete all AVIF files sitewide. $iterator = new \DirectoryIterator($config->paths->files); foreach($iterator as $dir) { if($dir->isDot() || !$dir->isDir()) continue; $sub_iterator = new \DirectoryIterator($dir->getPathname()); foreach($sub_iterator as $file) { if($file->isDot() || !$file->isFile()) continue; if($file->getExtension() === 'avif') { unlink($file->getPathname()); echo 'Deleted: ' . $file->getFilename() . '<br>'; } } } Saving an original variation file Because requests to images are being rewritten to matching AVIF files where they exist, if you try to save example.500x500.jpg from your browser you will actually save example.500x500.avif. You can prevent the rewrite and load/save the original variation file by adding "original=1" to the query string in the image URL, e.g. example.500x500.jpg?original=1. https://github.com/Toutouwai/AutoAvif https://processwire.com/modules/auto-avif/

Awesome and inspiring! This is some fantastic work @bernhard and showcases real talent. Wi-Five!

I would advice all you that the geocoder API is no longer accessible in the format of the current module. I have an error geocoding address and the return message from nominatim.openstreetmap is: Using the URL /search/ and /reverse/ (with slashes) is no longer supported. Change url from /search/?q=Berlin in /search?q=Berlin Also complete addresses are changed, see below: File not found: API no longer accessible via this URL Using the URL /search/ and /reverse/ (with slashes) is no longer supported. Please use URLs as given in the documentation. Examples how to change the URL: You use: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/?q=Berlin Change to: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Berlin You use: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search/US/Texas/Huston Change to: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Huston, Texas, US See github issue #3134 for more details. See github issue #3134 for more details. Maybe editing ControlGeocoder.js fixes partially the problem? :343 L.Control.Geocoder.jsonp(this.options.serviceUrl + 'search/', L.extend({ change in L.Control.Geocoder.jsonp(this.options.serviceUrl + 'search', L.extend({ :370 L.Control.Geocoder.jsonp(this.options.serviceUrl + 'reverse/', L.extend({ change in L.Control.Geocoder.jsonp(this.options.serviceUrl + 'reverse', L.extend({ I have tested with simple addresses (italian street, number and city) ad it works fine again, both search and reverse. Posted a commit on Github: https://github.com/FriendsOfProcessWire/FieldtypeLeafletMapMarker/commit/63254dffea9bd504eb45b124d64fd5832e38f013

You could also do this in your homepage template: echo $pages->get('/path/to/page/')->render();