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Hi everyone, I wanted to share a small utility module I’ve put together to help keep the /site/modules/ directory tidy. What it does: When updating modules ProcessWire renames old module directories by prepending a dot (e.g., .ModuleName). Over time, these "hidden" backup folders can clutter your file system. ProcessModuleCleaner identifies these orphaned directories and allows you to delete them directly from the admin interface. Key Features: Automatic Detection: Scans your site modules folder for any directory starting with a dot. Native UI: Built specifically for the ProcessWire backend using UIkit 3 classes for a seamless look. Interactive Selection: Uses AlpineJS for a fast and responsive "select all" and delete workflow. Safe Deletion: Uses ProcessWire's WireFileTools for reliable recursive directory removal. How to use: Install the module. Navigate to Setup > Module Cleaner. Review the list of found folders. Select the ones you want to remove and click "Delete". Screenshot / UI: The module displays a clean table with the folder name and the last modified date, so you know exactly how old those backups are. GitHub: https://github.com/markusthomas/ProcessModuleCleaner Module Directory: https://processwire.com/modules/process-module-cleaner/ I hope some of you find this helpful for keeping your production or development environments clean! Feedback is always welcome. Cheers!

Nested Checkboxes An inputfield for Page Reference fields that groups options by their parent page, and optionally by grandparent page too. This can help editors understand the grouping of the selectable pages, and also makes it quicker for an editor to select or unselect an entire group of pages. The checkboxes at the parent and grandparent level are not for storing those pages in the field value - only for quickly selecting or unselecting groups of pages at the lowest level of the hierarchy. For example, in the screen recording above the "Cities" Page Reference field allows only pages with the "city" template, and the pages at the country and continent level are not included in the field value. The inputfield is only for use with Page Reference fields because the structure comes from the page tree. Requires PW >= v3.0.248. Configuration For each field that uses the inputfield you have these options: Checkboxes structure: choose "Parents" or "Parents and grandparents". Collapse sections that contain no checked checkboxes: this option makes the inputfield more compact. There are also the standard column width and column quantity options familiar from the InputfieldCheckboxes inputfield. These apply to the selectable pages at the lowest level of the hierarchy, and the structure is arguably more readable when these are left at their defaults. https://github.com/Toutouwai/InputfieldNestedCheckboxes https://processwire.com/modules/inputfield-nested-checkboxes/

There aren’t any core updates to report this week, but that’s because I’ve been throughly wrapped up in a client project using ProcessWire (the same one I’ve been busy with the last couple weeks). When it came time to decide which version of ProcessWire to use when this project launches next week, there was no question in my mind about using the latest dev version. It’s very solid. I upgraded their existing site (using 3.0.229) to it in preparation for the new site, and of course there were no hiccups or glitches. But it did make me think the current dev branch really belongs on the main branch. So I think that as soon as we wrap this project up, I’d like to get a new main/master branch version ready by or before the end of the year, so that’s the goal. Lately there's been a real increase in the number of new sites posted to our Showcase, which is great to see! Some amazing work coming in. As always, If you have sites you've recently launched or soon will, please add them to the sites directory. Thanks and have a great weekend and happy holidays!

Since version 3.0.173, URL/path hooks are thankfully available. I built a solution to overwrite page paths using an input field on pages for the public. If filled, the Page::path hook returns my custom path string, which means URLs etc. are even auto-updated. A second hook checks all incoming requests and delivers the page by matching the defined path/URL. # ready.php // Change page path $wire->addHookBefore('Page::path', function($event) { $page = $event->object; if (!empty($page->page_generic_urlpath)) { $event->replace = true; $event->return = $page->page_generic_urlpath; } }); # ready.php // Route page path back $wire->addHook('/([a-zA-Z0-9-/]+)/', function($event) { $urlpath = '/' . $event->arguments(1) . '/'; $page = $event->pages->findOne('page_generic_urlpath=' . $urlpath . ', include=hidden'); return $page->id && $page->viewable ? $page : $event->return; }); This works fine as long as multilanguage support is not required. However, with multiple languages, it becomes much more complicated. The Page::path hook is useless, and the logic needs to be implemented in LanguageSupportPageNames->getPagePath(), which is not hookable. In short, I can't find a good way to map my multilingual custom paths from an input field to the corresponding localized language paths. I ended up making minimal edits in LanguageSupportPageNames->getPagePath() to replace multilingual paths when necessary. However, I would prefer an elegant solution over a "core module hack". Does anyone have a good idea for changing page language local paths via hooks? In my tests, Page::localPath is neither hookable nor defined with underscores. Changing the deeper internal language logic seems impossible. Or not?! 🙂

In case anyone has the same issue as me, I have changed the line 513 where it does preg_match on the content if(!preg_match_all('#<(?:p|h[1-6])(?:>|\s+[^>]+>)\s*(https?://vimeo.com/(?:[^<]*?/|)(\d+)).*?</(?:p|h[1-6])>#', $str, $matches)) return; to if(!preg_match_all('#<a\s+href="(https?://vimeo\.com/([0-9]+(?:/[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)?))".*?>.*?</a>#i',$str,$matches)) return; Note. This works when the url is made into a link, as it checks in <a> tags rather than <p> tags in the original.