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I have never been loyal to tools for the sake of it. If something stops earning its keep, I move on. The reason I have stayed with ProcessWire for close to ten years is simple: it continues to make sense for how I work. I still look after sites I built many years ago, and most of them just run. No rewrites, no upgrade stress, no feeling that past work is a liability. The API has stayed stable, and when it has changed, it has been deliberate and predictable. That matters when you are responsible for client sites long-term. What really locked me in early on was the front-end freedom. PW never told me how a site should look or behave. It gave me solid building blocks and allowed me to choose. I can build very different sites without switching platforms or fighting opinionated defaults, and that freedom is something I value. The forum is another reason I am still here. You, the people in this community, take the time to understand a problem before jumping to solutions. That is very rare. The discussions are thoughtful, practical, and grounded in real experience, and I have learned a lot simply by reading how others approach things. And finally, trust. I trust ProcessWire not to chase trends simply for attention, and not to trade clarity or performance for fashion. Ten years on, it still feels like a system built by people who actually build websites. For me, that combination has been hard to beat.

It's a bit over a year since I started this post and it's crazy how far AI and cursor got! Huge shoutout to @gebeer who is my main source of wisdom when it comes to AI related stuff 🙂 I wanted to share a video that I watched recently. It is quite lengthy, but I was looking for exactly that to make sure I don't miss any basics. For me it was eye opening, so I wanted to share it: My personal takeaways/learnings: I have thought for a long time that AI is great to read/understand/explain or help me find something in my codebase but for actual coding it's not very helpful most of the time (other than cursor tab, which is awesome!) You can run multiple agents in cursor at once, and you can run multiple models at once, which is crazy The better you setup your environment, the better the results (obviously...) AI can write all your RockPageBuilder blocks with RockMigrations code easily You can actually TALK to cursor in the chat, which is a lot quicker than typing. You can even TALK to it in german and it will translate it to english on the fly, which is crazy. This is just the beginning So the question for me was is it really worth the effort of setting up your environment so that AI does the work for you and then in the end you spend more time debugging than if you just went ahead and coded it from scratch? I'm not sure yet, and I asked that question today @gebeer. He said clearly yes, and my gut said I can imagine he is right, but I did not really experience it myself. Today that changed. I took some time to try a new workflow for a client request. Usually I would have added code by hand, as that's a lot quicker. Why? Because you either start prompting and get bad results or you have to invest a lot of time upfront. But I know how it feels to invest some time upfront and then have superpowers forever 🙂 So I gave it a try and after a quick emergency rescue session with @gebeer I got very good results in actually very little time. And once I started to adopt that workflow it started to make sense more and more and I started to answer the question to myself: Is the effort worth it? Clear answer: YES So I want to encourage everyone to watch the video, try it out, ask for help if you hit any roadblocks. So why do I think it's worth it? Simple example: I asked AI to implement a new RockPageBuilder block. It did the backend for me quickly and easily. Then it did the frontend for me. The frontend needed more time and debugging, but I then added the uikit docs to my project and told cursor to add the docs to my cursor rules/skills/whatever (still confused, but cursor knows what to do). Then results seemed to get even better and it even fixed an issue in a way that I would have never thought of (because I didn't know this option was there). So I even learned something new. Finally I saw an issue in my .latte file, which is quite a common mistake: AI forgot to add |noescape to the {$page->headline} output, which made the headline "Foo & Bar" show up as "Foo & Bar". I guess every latte user knows that problem 🙂 The solution: Tell AI to fix the issue and to also add that info to the frontend-dev skill/rules. That means it will likely never make this mistake again! This is a really powerful approach. I'm quite impressed. And I think I'll need a more expensive subscription soon ^^ Which is one of the downsides. You have been warned! 😄😉 PS: The initial setup is also quite easy. All I did is to talk to cursor: A bit messy instructions and lots of mistakes, but it doesn't matter as long as cursor understands you. I'm quite sure the results are not perfect, but from what I read in the instructions for the AI it's a quite good overview of the project! And it's something to build upon and grow 🙂

Yesterday I had a chat with @gebeer and he showed me Cursor - The AI First Code Editor. It's based on VSCode, so if you are working with VSCode it will be a very similar experience. It can help you writing docs: It can help you refactoring code: And it can help you writing newsletters (testing that it understands the contest of the file for the prompt): I'm sure it can do much more great stuff. @gebeer mentioned a @docs feature - maybe you want to explain that? ? You can either access the AI with your own OpenAI API key or you can use their free tier or buy a subscription starting from 20$ per month. I'm testing it but so far it looks like a good companion. What it did not do for me is to translate all JSON files in the /de folder to spanish translations in the /es folder. It told me it can't do that directly but gave me a python snippet how I can achieve this. I'm in contact with @FireWire about that ? Have a good weekend! Ah, and if you are not subscribed to Rock Monthly here is the link: https://baumrock.com/rock-monthly/ ?

Hi all, I just opened two PRs for AutoTemplateStubs. First one adds/extends ProFields stubs (Table, Textareas, Multiplier, RepeaterMatrix, Custom) + some refactoring The second PR adds an optional PHPDoc injection into custom Page classes. It only edits a clearly marked region (//region AutoTemplateStubs ... //endregion). If the marker is missing, nothing is changed. If the class doesn’t exist yet, it creates an empty class with the marker. So it’s opt‑in and hopefully safe. Happy to adjust if needed.

Hey everyone, I have some updates to MediaHub to share. Media Hub view Screenshot of the Grid view... This is the grid view showing a thumbnail of all your images. Each card has helpful meta data (PNG, file size etc) Some images have crop applied denoted by the small pink badge. IE Lisbon tiles has 4 crop versions. Usual filters at the top and a search bar. Screenshot of the Table view. Handy if you have hundreds of images Displays tags too Screenshot of the Upload / Drag and drop mode There's some nice aniamtion / UI when the system is uploading several images Tomorrow I'll share more...

I think that sums it up 🙂

Hi everyone, As promised, the Beta version of WireBooking is now available on GitHub! You can find the repository here: https://github.com/markusthomas/WireBooking I would love to get your feedback on the installation process and general usability. If you find any bugs or have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue on GitHub. Happy testing!

Awesome article that sums it all up neatly. Thanks for this comprehensive guide, Ryan! I converted the content of this article into a reusable AI agent skill. Available here: https://github.com/gebeer/processwire-ai-docs/tree/main/skills/pw-page-classes

That's because there is none. Or there are three - depending on the point of view. Some classes come from jQuery UI, some come from UIkit, and to make it even more flexible the new default admin theme comes with its own classes, conventions and technology (CSS variables instead of additionally to LESS). There is a readme for AdminThemeUikit here. If you are using the new default theme by konkat many of these instructions are obsolete. In that case I guess your best bet is to look for information they provided spread across the forum and the blog. But to be honest from what I read this is all just fancy marketing blabla with screenshots how nice the new theme looks, but nothing answers the questions you just raised. I basically asked the same questions here and got no answer. Maybe you have more luck! Oh, and if you expect that you can use regular UIkit markup in AdminThemeUikit you might be interested in this thread as well.

ProcessWire: processwire-master_3.0.229 (and earlier versions) TextformatterAccordion: TextformatterAccordion-master_1.1.1 used inside InputfieldCKEditor First issue (solved): When using the originally downloaded TextformatterAccordion (v.1.1.1), I experienced a message on top of the outputted page: Notice: Array to string conversion in E:\UniServerZ\www\processwire-master\site\assets\cache\FileCompiler\site\modules\TextformatterAccordion\TextformatterAccordion.module on line 59 The line 59 is: if(empty($$accordion[0])) array_shift($accordion); I recognized a doubled '$$' before the variable 'accordion[0]', which is an operator known as "variable of variable"; but in my system I've debugged it, and it isn't a "variable of variable", it's only an array item containing text. After I removed one of the '$' operators, the line 59 changed into: if(empty($accordion[0])) array_shift($accordion); then the 'Notice' (see above) disappears and Accordion is working well :-). Second issue (solved): When there are several paragraphs in front of the Accordion part, is happens (regulary), that the last - neutral - paragraph of them is seen as (first) Accordion-item and is formatted like: Untitled Item Lorem ipsum... After inserting an extra check at the beginning of the 'foreach'-loop (lines marked with "ESB") of ...\www\processwire-master\site\modules\TextformatterAccordion\TextformatterAccordion.module ... foreach($accordion as $k => $v) { $pos = strpos($v, "~~~\t"); if ($pos === false){ // no accordion items in this block // ESB continue; // ESB } // ESB $title = trim(substr($v, 0, $pos)); ... , also this part of Accordion is working well. I hope, my tips are helping other users of TextformatterAccordion.