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Sooo, I'm still alive and in August, I will start on a new job and project that probably brings me back to work with the cool and great Processwire. :D 7 years ago I was forced to change job and ended in a cool new place doing front-end dev not using PW anymore. So unfortunately I didn't really use or follow PW in that time except once a year doing something tiny bits on the handful of websites I am responsible for. I'm sorry if I just disappeared "over night" and maybe left some things behind I was doing for PW, and didn't spend time looking out for them. The reason is, I also was very frustrated with a lot of things with the job and life at that time and 2019 was also when I started painting again digitally, as maybe some of you know. I went full hyper focus mode, everyday almost for 2-3 years in my spare time and since then slowed down. I was able to make a small career with it, and made a lot of new connections and experiences which was awesome. I will continue to work on making art and illustrations as I have a lot of new freedom with the new job too combine a lot of my skills. Finally I can work from home full time. A little dream come true. Thanks for still being here and keeping this small but awesome community alive! I have to catch up now! :D Cheers Soma

This week I worked with Claude Code on refactoring the core WireHooks class to improve it in various ways. I do this work because I like to code, so am of course handling that part. But Claude has been very helpful in finding issues as well as reviewing all my code before it gets committed. In this case, Claude found several bugs that are now fixed, and also saved me from introducing more when I added new features. Working with Claude Code reminds me of 1989 when I was in high school learning Turbo Pascal and building a BBS, and getting help from a neighbor and good friend that was doing the same. I learned so much then and now it feels like that time again. But man have things come a long way since then. I asked Claude about helping with the ProcessWire issues and requests GitHub repos, and now it's solving issue reports, replying to them and committing fixes. For simple fixes that involve a line or two, I'm going to let it handle the the whole thing. It's posting under my GitHub account, but it identifies itself as Claude in replies and and in commits. That way it's easy to tell what it does under my account. I had it just cover a couple of issue reports today as a test (see 2195 and 2192), but will be having it do a lot more going forward. Back to the WireHooks class, I asked Claude about writing a commit message for the WireHooks updates, and wow, check this out: Bug fixes in WireHooks: - conditionalArgMatch(): Fix Selector mutation bug where the shared Selector object stored in hook options was permanently mutated after the first call, causing argMatch hooks (e.g. addHook('WireLog::save(=errors)')) to stop matching after their first invocation. - getHooks(): Remove key variable from foreach to prevent shadowing $method param. - getHooks(): Replace array_merge() in loops with direct array append. - addHook(): Prevent 'noAddHooks' option from leaking into stored hook options. - isHookedOrParents(): Use $className string consistently in cache key writes, rather than $class which may be a Wire object. - runHooks(): Scope $useHookReturnValue inside foreach so it resets per hook. - runHooks(): Use strict null comparison ($toObject === null). Bug fixes in HookEvent: - arguments(): Allow setting an argument value to null (use func_num_args() > 1 instead of $value !== null check). - arguments(): Use array_key_exists() instead of isset() for null-correct lookup. - getArgumentNames(): Guard ReflectionMethod instantiation with method_exists() to avoid uncaught ReflectionException for dynamically-added hook methods. - __toString(): Fix argument list building (was appending to string instead of array), add null/bool display, avoid PHP fatal for objects without __toString(). New features in WireHooks: - cancelHooks: Now accepts string values 'before' or 'after' (in addition to boolean true) to cancel only hooks of a given type. For example, a before hook can set $event->cancelHooks = 'after' to cancel remaining after hooks without affecting the hooked method call. - Custom event data carry-forward: Custom data set on a HookEvent (via $event->customKey = $value) is now carried forward to subsequent HookEvent instances within the same runHooks() call. This allows before hooks to pass data to after hooks without using external variables. - getHooks('*'): Supports wildcard method to return all hooks for all objects. Available in debug mode only (uses allStaticHooks/allLocalHooks aggregates). - allStaticHooks: Now tracked alongside allLocalHooks when debug mode is on. - addHooks() comment fix: "If there is a parenthesis" corrected to "no parenthesis". - addHook() exception messages improved with additional context. - runHooks() docblock updated to include 'either' type. - hookTimer() PHPDoc: @param String corrected to lowercase string. New features in HookEvent: - $defaults static property: Defines the canonical set of standard HookEvent fields, used to distinguish custom data from built-in event properties. - $eid property: Each HookEvent instance gets a unique sequential event ID. - set() override: Tracks non-default keys set on the event in $customKeys. - getCustomData(): Returns only the custom (non-default) data set on the event, used internally by runHooks() for the carry-forward feature. - cancelHooks property updated to support bool|string type. Anyway, I know a lot of you here are deep into the AI stuff, and I'm just getting started, so none of this is surprising. But it sure is a pleasure collaborating with Claude Code on this stuff and it brings back that coding wonder and excitement from 1989. Some Claude and Claude Code podcasts I've enjoyed listening to or watching this week include one from AI for Humans Claude is Cooking, Wednesday's AI Daily Brief on How to use Claude's new upgrades, and the Get Educated AI video of how to setup Claude to use your computer and web browser, etc. (though I've not tried this just yet!). Lastly, last week I put together a ProcessWire powered JSON feed of bike tours, and the client prompted that they wanted a map and look what Claude Code did, I'm impressed!

I've been working on sites where the standard sitemap setup started showing cracks: XML generated on every request eating memory, no way to regenerate automatically without writing custom hooks, and no visibility into what actually ended up in the file. So I built Sitemap — a module that generates static XML files to disk, splits output by template name, and handles the full lifecycle from generation to search engine notification. What it does differently: Writes files to disk instead of rendering in memory — no RAM spike on large sites Pages are fetched in chunks of 500 with uncacheAll(), so memory stays flat regardless of page count Each template gets its own named file: sitemap-product.xml, sitemap-blog.xml, etc. — the index at sitemap.xml references them all Auto-regeneration via LazyCron with a configurable interval; the LazyCron hook slot is chosen dynamically to match what you configured (every hour, every 6 hours, daily, etc.) rather than always using everyHour A needs_regen flag is set whenever a page is saved, trashed, or deleted — visible in the admin dashboard IndexNow support: after generation, all URLs are submitted to api.indexnow.org in batches of 10,000 Sitemap: directive written directly to the physical robots.txt on save and on generate Lock file prevents concurrent generation Admin dashboard at Setup > Sitemap showing file count, URL count, total size, and last generated time Settings stored in a dedicated DB table (sitemap_settings, name/value, MEDIUMTEXT) rather than the module's data field — avoids the serialized config size limit when template settings grow large. Image sitemap extension and hreflang alternate links for multilanguage sites are both supported. GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/Sitemap Screenshots: Still v1.0.0, so feedback is very welcome — especially from anyone running it on a site with 10k+ pages.

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a module I’ve been building for ProcessWire: PW Native Analytics. The main idea behind it was simple: to have a useful analytics dashboard directly inside ProcessWire, without relying on external analytics platforms, third-party scripts, or external APIs. Everything is handled natively inside the CMS, which makes it a nice fit for projects where you want a simpler, more self-contained analytics solution. The module currently tracks and displays things like: page views unique visitors sessions current visitors top pages referrers devices and browsers 404 hits engagement events such as form submits, downloads, tel/mail clicks, outbound clicks, and custom CTA events It also includes: charts and trend views comparison between periods custom date range filtering page-level analytics inside the page edit screen exports to CSV, PDF, and DOCX helper examples and a small snippet generator for custom event tracking The reason I built it was that I wanted something that feels natural inside ProcessWire itself, instead of just embedding another analytics service into the admin. For many sites, it can be useful to have core traffic and engagement data available right where content is managed, with no need for external integrations. Tell me if you find it usefull 😉 Download it Here: PwNativeAnalytics_1.0.5.zip Enjoy

Hey everyone, I've been building a e-commerce project and needed to show personalized content based on visitor location — shipping availability, regional pricing, state-level compliance notices. Nothing like this existed in the PW ecosystem, so I built it. What it does Detects country, region and city from the visitor IP using MaxMind GeoLite2 databases (free). Result is cached in session. Exposes $geoip as a wire variable — available in every template automatically, just like $page or $user. // That's it. No setup, no require, just use it. if ($geoip->inCountry('US')) { echo $page->us_content; } API // Boolean checks — accept single value or array $geoip->inCountry('US') $geoip->inCountry(['US', 'CA', 'GB']) $geoip->inRegion('GA') // ISO 3166-2 subdivision code $geoip->inRegion(['GA', 'NJ', 'NY']) $geoip->inCity('Atlanta') // Inline conditional with optional fallback echo $geoip->showIf('countryCode', 'US', $page->us_block, $page->global_block); echo $geoip->showIf('regionCode', ['GA', 'NJ', 'NY'], $page->northeast_promo); echo $geoip->showIf('continent', 'Europe', $page->eu_gdpr_notice); // Single field $geoip->getField('countryCode') // "US" $geoip->getField('regionCode') // "GA" $geoip->getField('city') // "Atlanta" $geoip->getField('timezone') // "America/New_York" // Full array $geo = $geoip->detect(); // ip, country, countryCode, continent, region, regionCode, // city, zip, lat, lon, timezone, corrected, status Combining conditions // Country + region if ($geoip->inCountry('US') && $geoip->inRegion('CA')) { echo $page->california_prop65_notice; } // Logged-in + location if ($user->isLoggedIn() && $geoip->inCountry('US')) { echo $page->us_member_block; } // Time-of-day in visitor's timezone $tz = $geoip->getField('timezone') ?: 'UTC'; $hour = (int) (new DateTime('now', new DateTimeZone($tz)))->format('H'); if ($geoip->inCountry('US') && $hour >= 9 && $hour < 17) { echo 'Our US office is open right now.'; } // Pre-select shipping dropdown (Vivino-style) $selectedCountry = $geoip->getField('countryCode') ?: 'US'; $selectedState = $geoip->getField('regionCode') ?: ''; User location correction Frontend widget lets visitors fix incorrectly detected location. Stored per-IP in DB, applied on subsequent requests. You can also build your own UI — just POST to /?geoip_action=correct with country_code, region_code, city. Setup Composer package and databases live in site/assets/GeoIP/ — not in the module directory, so they survive updates. cd /path/to/site/assets/GeoIP/ && composer require geoip2/geoip2 Then drop GeoLite2-City.mmdb (or GeoLite2-Country.mmdb) in the same folder. Free download from maxmind.com. The module config page shows the exact path and command for your server. Admin panel Setup → GeoIP — lookup log with country/region/city, corrections manager, manual IP lookup tool. GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/GeoIP License: MIT Requires: ProcessWire 3.0.200+, PHP 8.2+ Feedback welcome — especially if you're doing anything geo-based with ProcessWire. Maxim

The toughest challenge so far? Being our own client. Actually, the website we launched back then was just a placeholder, and the plan was to quickly replace it with a proper portfolio website. But as is often the case, it ended up taking a little longer than expected. A year later, we’ve finally done it: Our new website is live! https://konkat.studio/ The goal of the new website is to showcase our work and better communicate our services. The site is bilingual and was built using ProcessWire and PageGrid. More on that later. In addition to the website, we’ve also evolved our visual identity and logo. KONKAT (from concatenation) stands for linking individual elements into a functional whole. Our new branding makes this connection visible. In our case, we combine strategy, design, and technology into a unified process. The logo mark communicates this as well; as most of you probably know, the += operator in JavaScript joins elements and assigns the result. It took us some iterations to get the design right, but once the design was done, development was pretty straightforward. Most of the time was spent preparing the content for the projects, and that is also where PageGrid was super useful since it allowed us to design the layout and content of each project individually. Backend view: Managing project content and layouts with PageGrid. PageGrid also significantly sped up development, as we built all other pages using only its core blocks. For the projects overview, for instance, we used the datalist block to automatically generate the listing from our project pages, working perfectly out of the box without any custom logic. We also added some custom code where it made sense, e.g. the scroll animation on the homepage was just a bit easier to achieve with custom code (it uses native CSS sticky). Backend view: Using Pagegrid's inline editing to update some text on the english version auf our services page. Another great thing is that PageGrid takes care of lazy loading images and videos (using the famous lazysizes js plugin) and is caching its content automatically. As a result, we got a 100 on the Google Lighthouse test on desktop and 99 on mobile without any extra optimizations (we are not using Markup Cache or ProCache for this site). Backend view: Editing a thumbnail on the homepage If you have any further questions regarding our workflow or process, feel free to ask. I will do my best to answer them. Also, please let us know if you find any bugs, since the website is brand new, there are probably some we haven't caught yet! We also welcome any feedback you may have. Best, Jan & Diogo (KONKAT)

Hi everyone, I needed a solid subscription module for a client project — something that handles multiple lists, double opt-in, and plugs cleanly into order and contact forms via a PHP API. Nothing in the directory quite fit, so I built Subscribe. It's been running in production on a few sites since March, so the edge cases are ironed out. GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/Subscribe What it does: Multiple subscription lists with many-to-many subscriber relationships Double opt-in with configurable HTML email ({confirm_url}, {unsub_url} placeholders) Honeypot spam protection — no CAPTCHA needed IP-based rate limiting (configurable threshold and time window) One-click unsubscribe with unique token per subscription WireMail provider selector — works with default, SMTP, Brevo, or any WireMail module Admin UI (Setup → Subscribers): Sidebar list switcher with subscriber counts Add/toggle/remove subscribers, create/rename/delete lists Search, status filter, pagination CSV import, JSON/CSV export per list Resend confirmation for pending subscribers PHP API — drop it into any template, order form, or contact form: $sub = $modules->get('Subscribe'); $sub->subscribe('user@example.com', $listId); Hookable event for integrations (Telegram notifications, CRM sync, etc.): $wire->addHookAfter('Subscribe::subscribed', function(HookEvent $event) { // $email, $listId, $subscriptionId }); Ships with an Alpine.js form block ready to drop into any template. Requirements: ProcessWire 3.x, PHP 8.0+ MIT License.

In this post I wanted to talk a little bit about the state of ProcessWire and AI. I'll share what my experience has been so far and where I think ProcessWire should focus going forward. This new world of AI can be both exciting and concerning, but it's the world that we've found ourselves in. As far as ProcessWire and web development goes, I think there's a lot to be excited and enthusiastic about— https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-and-ai/

Hi everyone, I've built a module that integrates Plausible Analytics directly into the admin — with a full dashboard, charts, and a per-page stats widget on the edit screen. GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/PlausibleAnalytics What it does: Dashboard under Setup → Analytics with summary cards (Visitors, Pageviews, Bounce Rate, Visit Duration) Traffic trends chart + Top Pages bar chart + Traffic Sources donut chart Tabbed breakdown: Geography, Devices, Browsers Per-page widget on the page-edit screen — shows last 30 days stats inline Period selector: Today / 7d / 30d / 6m / 12m API response caching via LazyCron (configurable interval) Self-hosted Plausible support via custom base URL Chart.js vendored locally — no external CDN dependency Role-based access via plausible-view permission Screenshots: Page-edit widget: Built on Stats API v2 (POST /api/v2/query). The module handles all v2 quirks internally — event vs session metrics split, correct date_range values, visit:entry_page filter for per-page session stats. Happy to answer questions. Bug reports and PRs welcome!

Guys, I don't know where to put this, so I'll post it here. Maybe someone will need the Uikit PW design system for use on your development. Attached file. Online here. AdminThemeUikit-DesignSystemUI.html

Cre8aplace -- ProcessWire Showcase Overview Cre8aplace is a full-featured social networking platform built entirely on ProcessWire 3.0.255, PHP 8.4, and plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS. No frontend frameworks, no build tools, no bundlers. It delivers the core experience people expect from a social platform -- profiles, messaging, groups, newsfeeds, marketplace, blogs -- while prioritizing user privacy and data control. The site is currently in soft launch at [cre8aplace.com](https://cre8aplace.com). I started this project over five years ago and was recently revived with the availability of time (I'm retired). The goal was to build a platform where users own their experience -- where no data is sold, no algorithms manipulate what you see, and the platform exists to serve its members rather than advertisers. I've used ProcessWire for many years on various projects so it was the natural foundation. Ryan's philosophy of minimal opinions and maximum flexibility aligned perfectly with my project that needed to bend a CMS into something it wasn't explicitly designed for -- a real-time social networking platform. Where other CMSs would have fought at every turn with rigid content models and opinionated routing, ProcessWire simply got out of the way. A major thank you to Ryan! What ProcessWire Solved User Management Without a Separate Database ProcessWire's user system eliminated the need for a standalone user table entirely. Each member account carries approximately 50 custom fields -- everything from profile settings and privacy controls to notification preferences and subscription status. PW's field system handles all of this natively, with no separate profile table, no ORM, and no migration headaches when fields change. The Entity Page Tree Every entity type on the platform -- Groups, Pages (business presence), Events, Markets, Blogs, Movies, Games -- lives as a ProcessWire page with its own template. The page tree gives a natural hierarchy: /groups/ /groups/hiking-enthusiasts/ /groups/local-music/ /pages/ /pages/joes-coffee/ /markets/ /markets/handmade-goods/ Each entity type gets its own template file, its own toolbar configuration, and its own permission rules, but they all share the same rendering components (page header, toolbar, left aside, right aside). ProcessWire's template system made this architecture effortless. Flexible Templating as a Router I used ProcessWire's template system not as a traditional page renderer, but as a thin router/dispatcher. A single 'profile.php' template handles 12 different operations (timeline, account settings, privacy, messages, friends, membership, etc.) by dispatching to focused include files. Each include contains paired display and process functions. PW's template prepend (_init.php) bootstraps every request with shared utilities, configuration, and security setup. Admin Backend for Free ProcessWire's admin interface provided a complete backend without building one. SVG icons are stored as PW pages (37 icons, each with SVG markup in a textarea field). Site-wide configuration lives in a JSON field on a settings page, accessible from both PHP and JavaScript. Reaction types, emoji sets, and content categories are all managed through PW's admin. Authentication Built on Solid Ground Rather than building authentication from scratch, I extended ProcessWire's session and user system with custom email verification, token-based password reset, persistent remember-me login, and bot prevention. PW handles the password hashing, session management, and role assignment while I built the user-facing flows on top. Role Hierarchy The platform's permission system maps directly to ProcessWire roles: member < moderator < owner < administrator < superuser PW's role checking ($user->hasRole(), $user->isSuperuser()) powers everything from toolbar visibility to AJAX endpoint authorization. Group moderators and page employees add entity-scoped permissions on top of the global role hierarchy. Custom ProcessWire Modules I built four custom modules over the years while working on various other projects that extend ProcessWire's capabilities: - ViridiaCaptcha -- Bot prevention for registration and authentication forms. Integrates directly with PW's form processing. - ViridiaCalendar -- A full event calendar with RSVP tracking, recurring events, ICS, and profile-level event management. Renders calendar views and manages event CRUD through ProcessWire's module API. - ViridiaTicketing -- Support ticket system for user-to-admin communication. Built as a PW module with its own database tables and admin interface. - ViridiaGovFeed -- An automated government legislative feed that fetches federal bills from Congress.gov, executive orders and rules from the Federal Register, and state-level legislation via the LegiScan API. It publishes curated topics to a system-owned Page entity. Users follow the page to see legislative headlines in their newsfeed. Runs on a 6-hour cron cycle with deduplication and fetch logging. Architecture Highlights Hybrid Data Model I use ProcessWire pages for entities and users, but custom MariaDB tables for high-volume relational data. I created over 20 custom tables to handle topics, comments, replies, messages, relationships, reactions, notifications, marketplace orders, product variants, reviews, and more. This hybrid approach gives me the best of both worlds -- PW's flexible page management for entities, and direct SQL performance for data that sees thousands of writes per day. Encrypted Control Parameters What I am most proud of is no database ID ever appears in a URL, query string, or HTML attribute on this platform. Every sensitive identifier is encrypted with AES-256-CBC using ProcessWire's private key, passed as an opaque 'data-param' attribute, and decrypted server-side before processing. JavaScript never sees a real ID -- it just passes encrypted blobs back to the server. This is the backbone of the platform's privacy guarantees. AJAX-Driven Interface The platform runs over 50 AJAX actions across 8 endpoint routers. Every interactive operation -- posting a topic, sending a message, toggling a reaction, managing a marketplace order -- happens through AJAX calls that return JSON with server-rendered HTML. No client-side templating, no virtual DOM, no state management library. The server renders the HTML, the client inserts it. Single CSS File, No Framework The entire platform's styling lives in a single 132KB CSS file. Layout uses CSS Grid (3-column desktop, single-column mobile). Theming uses OKLch color space with CSS custom properties -- users pick an accent color via a color picker, and the entire UI adapts through computed color relationships. No Bootstrap, no Tailwind, no preprocessor. No Build Pipeline I wrote 23 JavaScript files as plain ES6+ and served directly. For production, a PHP-based minifier (matthiasmullie/minify) compresses them, and a GUID generator creates randomized filenames for cache busting. The entire "build" process is three shell commands. No webpack, no Vite, no npm. External Dependencies The platform uses only three external dependencies: 1. SunEditor (MIT license) -- WYSIWYG editor for blog posts. The only client-side library on the platform. Everything else is hand-written JavaScript. 2. Stripe PHP SDK -- Powers three subscription tiers (Free at $0, Standard at $8.95/month, Extended at $16.95/month) and marketplace seller payouts via Stripe Connect Express. The SDK is vendored directly in the project -- no Composer. 3. Wasabi S3 -- Cloud object storage for album images and marketplace product photos. Accessed via direct S3 API calls from PHP. Everything else -- UI components, animations, form handlers, real-time polling system -- is custom PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Platform Features Social Core - User profiles with visitor viewing via opaque GUID URLs, granular privacy controls, and friend relationships with request/accept/block workflows - Newsfeed aggregating activity from friends, followed groups, pages, and markets - Topic creation with multi-image upload (adaptive grid layout, each with caption and tags), comments, replies, reactions, emoji picker, @mentions, link previews, and topic sharing - Real-time messaging supporting direct messages, multi-user conferences, group chat, page staff chat, system announcements, and moderation incident channels - Notification system with smart aggregation (groups repeat members until read), role-based filtering, and infinite scroll - Carousel view of multiple images with editing Community Entities - Groups with public/private/secret visibility, moderator roles, member approval, post approval queue, rules display, and ownership transfer - Pages (business presence) with follower system, employee roles, and staff-only chat channels Premium Features (Subscription-Gated) - Marketplace with Stripe Connect seller onboarding, product variants, shopping cart, checkout, digital downloads via pre-signed S3 URLs, order management, revenue reports, verified-purchase reviews, wishlists, and market following with new-product notifications - Blogs with SunEditor WYSIWYG, full CRUD, and newsfeed integration - Movies and Games as browseable entertainment entity types - Events powered by the ViridiaCalendar module with RSVP tracking - Schedule future topic postings - State-level government legislation tracking (3-state limit on Standard, unlimited on Extended) Administration - Admin panel with a reusable data table module -- a config-driven system where new admin tables require only a configuration array. Six tables migrated: Users, Groups, Pages, Categories, Reactions, Reports - Content moderation with report handling, per-report discussion channels, and moderator action tracking - Government legislative feed management with force-fetch and status monitoring By the Numbers | Metric | Value | | ------------------------- | ---------------------- | | Custom database tables | 20+ | | SQL migration files | 46 | | Custom user fields | ~50 | | JavaScript files | 23 (~500KB source) | | CSS | 1 file (132KB) | | PHP include files | 50+ | | Custom PW modules | 4 | | Utility functions library | 113KB (_functions.php) | | AJAX actions | 50+ | | npm dependencies | 0 | | Composer dependencies | 0 | | Build steps | 0 | Technology Stack - CMS: ProcessWire 3.0.255 - Language: PHP 8.4 - Database: MariaDB 15.0+ on Debian 12 - Server: Apache 2.4 - Frontend: Plain JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3 - Payments: Stripe (subscriptions + Connect marketplace payouts) - Storage: Wasabi S3 (images) - Editor: SunEditor (blog WYSIWYG) - Frameworks: None - Build tools: None

If you love the simplicity of ProcessWire's API but want the reactive, SPA-like feel of modern frontend frameworks without writing complex JavaScript, this module bridges that gap. It brings native Server-Side Component state hydration, Out-Of-Band (OOB) swaps, and strict security to your ProcessWire application using HTMX. 🚀 What does it do? This module transforms how you write frontend components in ProcessWire: True Stateful Backend Components: It introduces Component and Ui base classes. Your PHP components automatically rehydrate their state (variables, dependencies, $page assignments) between HTMX AJAX requests! No need to manually parse POST payloads. Auto-Discovery: Just place your components in your site directories. The module automatically discovers and securely namespaces them (Htmx\Component and Htmx\Ui). Zero-Javascript Reactivity: You can handle form submissions, counters, validation, and multi-field updating dependencies directly from PHP using HTMX attributes. Cryptographic Security: The module uses strict HMAC-SHA256 signatures with TTL (Time-To-Live). This guarantees that bad actors cannot modify state payloads or trigger invalid endpoint logic in the browser. WebSockets & SSE Ready: It has built-in helpers to easily hook Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSockets onto your templates without exhausting PHP-FPM pools globally. 🛠 How it looks in your code You simply create a PHP component class, define some public properties, and write an endpoint action: <?php namespace Htmx\Component; use Totoglu\Htmx\Component; class ClickCounter extends Component { public int $count = 0; public function increase() { $this->count++; } } Then, you can render it anywhere in your site with a single line: /** @var Htmx $htmx */ echo $htmx->renderComponent(ClickCounter::class); View the documentation and examples on Github Feel free to try it out, run the tests included in the repo, and let me know your thoughts or feedback! htmx.mp4

Hey folks, we at frameless Media often develop across multiple devices – laptop, tablet, sometimes even from a phone with an AI coding assistant. Git is our single source of truth, but getting those changes onto a staging or production server has always been annoying. Especially on shared hosting where there's no SSH, no git, and git-based FTP via YAML configs is more hassle than it's worth. We also frequently need to test new modules directly on shared hosting environments where the server setup differs from our local machines. Manually uploading files after every push? No thanks. So we built GitSync. 🎯 TL;DR: ✅ Link any installed module to its GitHub repo ✅ See all branches and their latest commits ✅ One-click sync – only changed files are downloaded ✅ GitHub Webhook support – auto-sync on every push ✅ Works on shared hosting – no git, no SSH, no cron ✅ Private repo support via GitHub Token What's the difference to ProcessUpgrade? ProcessUpgrade is great for updating published modules from the PW modules directory. But it tracks releases, not branches. During development, when you're pushing to `develop` or `feature/xyz` ten times a day, you need something different. That's where GitSync comes in. 🚀 How it works Install the module, add your GitHub Token (optional for public repos) Go to GitSync > Add Module, pick any installed module from the dropdown GitSync searches GitHub for matching repositories automatically Link the module to a repo + branch – done From now on, you can sync with one click. GitSync compares file hashes locally and remotely (using the same SHA1 blob hashing that git uses internally) and only downloads what actually changed. No full re-downloads, minimal API usage. Want it fully automatic? Set up a GitHub Webhook – enter a secret in the module config, point the webhook to `https://yoursite.com/gitsync-webhook/`, and every push triggers an automatic sync. The module overview shows a ⚡ webhook badge on auto-synced modules so you always know what's wired up. The real power: remote development with AI 📱 You're on the train, phone in hand, chatting with Claude via the Claude app. Claude writes code, commits to a feature branch on GitHub. GitSync picks up the webhook and syncs the module to your dev server. Automatically. You open the edited webpage on your phone, check the result, give feedback, iterate. The entire development loop without ever opening a laptop. 🤯 This works just as well for teams: multiple developers push to GitHub from different machines, and the staging server always reflects the latest state – no manual deploys, no SSH sessions, no FTP. We've been using a prototype internally for a few weeks now and it's become part of our daily workflow – especially the webhook auto-sync is something we don't want to miss anymore. As proof of concept we built the public release entirely as described above 😃 Technical details for the curious The differential sync works like GIT itself: every file's content is hashed as `sha1("blob {size}\0{content}")`. GitHub's Trees API returns these hashes for the entire branch in a single request. GitSync computes the same hash locally. Matching hash = identical file = skip. Requirements ProcessWire >= 3.0 and PHP >= 7.4 with cURL Module and Docs 👉 GitHub: https://github.com/frameless-at/GitSync 👉 Module Directory: https://processwire.com/modules/git-sync/ Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and edge cases we might not have considered! Cheers, Mike

Hi, everyone! While working on a client project we were looking for a way to let editors apply CSS classes to individual images in rich text fields — quickly, visually, and also in the frontend editor. ProcessWire already has several ways to get CSS classes onto images, so it's worth being precise about what this module does differently: TextformatterFluidImages adds one class to all images automatically — great for img-fluid across the board, but there's no per-image choice. TextformatterImageInterceptor is more powerful: editors tag images in the image field, and the Textformatter applies the corresponding classes at render time. The logic is developer-defined and centralized, which is exactly right when you want consistent, rule-based image treatment. But the class is invisible in the editor, applied only in the frontend output, and editors have to set the tag in a completely separate place from where they're actually working. TinyMCE's built-in styleFormatsCSS is the closest thing to what we wanted. You write CSS, ProcessWire turns it into a Styles dropdown. It works, but the dropdown is generic — it shows all defined styles regardless of what's selected — and there's a known accumulation issue where nothing prevents float-left float-right ending up on the same image. And it doesn't work in the frontend editor. What we needed was simpler: editor clicks an image, picks a style, sees immediately which styles are active, can combine them or remove them individually. No dialogs, no separate fields, no render-time magic — the class goes directly into the <img> tag in the saved HTML, visible and editable right there in the editor. That's what this module does: It registers a context toolbar in TinyMCE that appears as a floating "Image Style" button when an image is selected. For CKEditor the same options show up in the right-click context menu. The class list is defined once in the module settings and works across both editors — no separate configuration per editor type. Each entry shows a checkmark when active, clicking it again removes it, multiple classes can be combined freely. Works in the admin and in the frontend editor. Complete Readme on GitHub: https://github.com/frameless-at/ProcessImageClasses and the module directory. Any thoughts on further improvements welcome! Cheers, Mike

There may be a time where you need to create a page reference field using the Select inputfield and it's selecting repeater pages. Let's say I have a repeater field called "order_line_items" and I want to create a page reference field called "order_line_item" that allows me to select a repeater item (which is a page) of the "order_line_items" repeater field. Repeater pages are a bit different from regular pages in that their "parent" is a container admin page associated with the page in which it exists (dig into /admin/repeaters/order_line_items/ in your page tree to see what I mean). So when you are configuring your page reference field, you can't really choose a Parent. However when configuring your field, your instinct would be to choose the Template of "repeater_order_line_items". Then because you need extra precision in what pages are actually available for selection (rather than all of them across all pages), your instinct will be to implement custom PHP code: $wire->addHookAfter('InputfieldPage::getSelectablePages', function($event) { if($event->object->hasField == 'order_line_item') { $event->return = $event->pages->find('your selector here'); } }); The problem with that approach is that even though you have defined the custom PHP code and the select field correctly shows the selectable repeater pages in the select field, behind-the-scenes, ProcessWire has still loaded EVERY SINGLE REPEATER that has the "repeater_order_line_items" template (you can see this is TracyDebugger's pages loaded list)! Your site will definitely be slower as a result, dramatically so if you have thousands or tens of thousands of repeater pages of that template. I hit this issue years ago (2018) and I thought it was a bug. I discussed it with Ryan and it's technically not a bug, but kind of the way ProcessWire works, which is beyond this tutorial. While you can circumvent this using the PageAutocomplete field, I don't like the ergonomics of that field in certain situations. I want the good-old select field. The solution to this is to NOT select anything for the "Template" when configuring your field. So in my example, I chose "repeater_order_line_items", but instead, it should be left blank. Now the field will just rely on the code portion and all the unnecessary page loads will be eliminated.

I made a small module called ProcessSiteSettings and thought I’d share it here in case it’s useful to someone. ProcessSiteSettings is a lightweight ProcessWire module for storing and editing global site values in one place. There are already similar modules available, so this is simply another free option with a focus on quick setup, usability, and helpful template snippets. It adds a Settings item to the ProcessWire admin menu and creates one central page for global site values like: copyright text footer content contact info social links SEO / AI summary text images repeaters Repeater Matrix page references other regular PW fields Ofc. add your own fields of choice to it, or delete the ones you don't need! It uses a normal template + page approach instead of a fake config form, so it works much more naturally with ProcessWire fields. It also includes a small helper box on the settings edit screen that shows ready-to-use template snippets for each field. It tries to generate smarter examples depending on the field type, including more complex fields like images, repeaters, matrix items, multi-value fields, etc. Settings Menu: Editing Values, adding/deleting custom fields and shortcut to Fields for quick creation of new ones. Quick helper for showing everything on frontend! Example usage on templates: <?= siteSettings('ss_copyright_text'); ?> <?= siteSettings()->ss_footer_text; ?> <?= $siteSettings->ss_contact_email; ?> The admin is in English and the module is translation-ready. Just install the module, and that's it! Just sharing it here in case someone finds it useful. Download Here: ProcessSiteSettings.zip

Hi everyone, A small but practical module — manage your robots.txt directly from the ProcessWire admin, no FTP or SSH needed. GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/RobotsTxt What it does: Visual editor under Setup → Robots.txt with dark theme and monospace font Two-column layout — preset sidebar on the left, editor on the right 10 built-in rule presets — click any card to append rules to the editor: Allow all / Block all crawlers Hide admin panel (/processwire/) Block uploaded file assets Block AI training bots (GPTBot, CCBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, FacebookBot, Omgilibot) Sitemap reference, Crawl-delay, Block query strings, Google only, Bing only Rules overview — parses the file after saving and renders a human-readable table with color-coded Allow/Disallow/Crawl-delay badges Status bar with file path, size, and last-modified date File locking (LOCK_EX) on write, CSRF protection, role-based access via robots-manager permission Automatic path detection via $config->paths->root Requirements: ProcessWire 3.0.200+, PHP 8.2+ Screenshot: MIT License.

@HMCB it's Claudia, and we're meeting up for coffee next week.

Hey, welcome back @Soma! Great to see you here (again). So, I'm my self are away from PW since around 2022-08. I only followed a bit by reading some of Ryan's blog posts and @teppo's ProcessWire Weekly. Well, maybe this summer I'll be able to work more with PW again and participate here in the forum. 💬

Most important to me is that I understand everything that goes into the core, and that means that AI is used for ideas and suggestions, but the code is still written by hand. And even then, the suggestions and ideas only end up in the core if they produce a measurable improvement. After testing and benchmarking, sometimes the ideas/suggestions result in an improvement, and just as often they do not. I do the same with pull requests. Coding and re-coding something is how I feel comfortable that I understand it. Perhaps too old-school but I don't think that will ever change. So long as I'm in charge of the core, I need that level of understanding with it. On another project I'm working on with a client (an add-on to their website), we're letting Claude handle the code entirely, with lots of instructions from us, but zero code from us. It's kind of a test and a learning experience, and the client initiated it. We don't know the details of the code, but we do know that the code works quite well. Though I had a peek at its code and found it to be quite solid. What's funny is that in this case, Claude is having me build web services it can pull data from. So I'm giving it instructions, but it's also giving me instructions. 🙂

Enables AI coding agents to access ProcessWire’s API. Also provides a content migration system. This module provides a way for Claude Code (or other AI helpers) to have full access to the ProcessWire API via a command-line interface (CLI). Once connected to your site, you can ask Claude to create and modify pages, templates and fields, or do anything that can be done with the ProcessWire API. It's even possible for an entire site to be managed by Claude without the need for ProcessWire's admin control panel, though we're not suggesting that just yet. While working with Claude Code, I asked what would be helpful for them in working with ProcessWire, and this module is the result. Claude needed a way to quickly access the ProcessWire API from the command line, and this module provides 3 distinct ways for Claude to do so. Claude collaborated with me on the development of the AgentTools module, and the accompanying ProcessAgentTools module was developed entirely by Claude Code. Admittedly, a big part of the purpose of this module is also to help me learn AI-assisted development, as I'm still quite new to it, but learning quickly. This module aims to add several agent tools over time, but this first version is also somewhat of a proof of concept. Its first feature is basic migrations system, described further in this document. Please note that this module should be considered very much in 'beta test' at this stage. If you do use it in production (such as the migrations feature) always test locally and have backups of everything that can be restored easily. While I've not run into any cases where I had to restore anything, just the nature of the module means that you should use extra caution. Continue reading in the GitHub README Agent Tools in the modules directory

Let's see if we can also get these guys to stop by here more often @apeisa @Joss @Nico Knoll @Gazley @WillyC @LostKobrakai @owzim the geerts brothers and who else am I forgetting?

From my experience, even asking an LLM (like ChatGPT in their website chat interface) about ProcessWire's architecture is pretty impressive. I spent a lot of time last year using AI to compare (verbally compare, not direct code) ProcessWire to full-stack web application frameworks like Laravel and the language it used to describe ProcessWire, with API variables like $pages, $fields, etc as "services-like objects" was something I've never seen described anywhere (pw docs or forums), but it's technically correct, and a lot of things clicked with me after that. These coding agents do really well with ProcessWire without any special harnesses already. I'm excited for all these upcoming features.

This start to look like "The Expendables". The superheroes are back 😎

So ProcessWire now has the beginnings of a first-party "schema" (in the ProcessWire sense) migrations system? YES!!!

Thanks, great suggestions. Being still kind of new to this, I've found myself overwhelmed by all agents tools and options. So having Claude code as the base is what I feel helped me to finally get into this stuff. It's like my key into this world. And I think it's working so well right now that I'm not concerned about whether a file is named Claude or agents, but it's good to know about for sure. If we start adding this type of file to the core then no doubt we'd want it to be an agents file, so that a broader audience can benefit from it. At the moment I'm loving the commit messages, claude attributions and GitHub replies. Feels like I have a coworker working with me at my computer all day now, which is something I've never had. but if it gets to be too much it's definitely helpful to know that this stuff is configurable. New PW AI updates coming tomorrow too.

@Soma a massive welcome back. I followed you on Twitter and absolutely loved your art journey but then it just seemed to disappear. As I hate social media I am not really on anything else, and certainly don't use X anymore. I always wondered what happened to a forum legend. As somebody mentioned earlier, you probably don't realise how much your posts have and still do help people.

@Soma Great to see you back! A couple weeks ago I was just thinking about you and how I wished you were still around here. I've been seeing your amazing paintings on Facebook and figured you had moved on to other things, but thought of sending you a message there, so what a nice surprise to see you here.

Hi everyone – very infrequent poster here, and also a long-time PW user in my web development career, for which I am deeply appreciative. Like @Ex-user, I have a lot of intense skepticism about AI, not only because of the environmental consequences being referred to, but also the invisibilized human costs in training these algorithms, as well as the risk of impacting critical thinking skills. I bristle at the way it's being coercively marketed as the inevitable answer to every human problem. That being said, I, like everyone else, recognize I have a career because of the many visible and hidden costs of digital technologies. That neither means I am "pure" or exempt from the hidden costs, nor does it mean I accept everything without pause. I think we all are attempting to make the best decisions for ourselves and consideration for others, and this may be expressed in differing ways when it comes to AI usage. For me, the primary issue with using AI is the matter of trust and accountability – what person is bearing responsibility for the work it produces or choices it makes? If PW's codebase adopts any changes suggested by AI, my hope would be that it undergoes the same level of testing and scrutiny as any other code revision, and it seems like Ryan is doing just that. If I have any say as a PW user in how AI is adopted into the main codebase, my hope would be that it's a transparent, auditable process, and (somewhat idealistically, from my own personal, ethical position) continues to be opt-in.

Hello ProcessWire forums, I am sharing a new page I developed for cybersecurity and DevOps expert Julie Tsai. Built with ProcessWire, it includes use of ProModules FormBuilder for the contact form and ProFields for the soon to be launched Blog section, where a Repeater Matrix controls the flow of content. Always enjoy working with this CMF and learning all that it's capable of … each time something new emerges. https://julietsai.net/

@adrian Thanks for bringing this up. It seemed like x-user came here to troll with an expectation that ProcessWire should ignore and blacklist anything having to do with AI. That doesn't seem realistic. But it did make me wonder, are there any other CMS projects that are taking this approach? It seems unlikely. I imagine we're not too many years away from the point where a CMS project can't compete if it's not involved in the AI space in some way or another. I also think that the AI changes are coming whether we like it or not. So we can either jump on and grow, and make things better, or get left behind, and perhaps get left without a job. If it's only the people that dismiss environmental concerns using AI and voting with their wallets, then there's no incentive for these companies to do better. X-user would make a greater difference to the world by being an AI user that cares and chooses companies based on their values. And I think that's what we all should do. Whereas abandoning anything having to do with AI does nothing to improve the direction of AI and seems a little like self-sabotage. In the future, and with users that care, there will be pressure on AI companies to do things right. For example, when they build that next data center, they will also build a giant solar array or wind farm to power it. Depending on coal and gas plants for electricity is not sustainable, and now it's more costly than solar. Coal and gas is EOL'd. It may be that the power demands of AI push us towards sustainable solutions faster than otherwise, and we need that as quickly as possible. My opinion: We can't dismiss AI and complain. We have to participate and push for better solutions when there are opportunities to do so. If we sit out, there will be no such opportunities. The environmental problems were here long before AI. As I understand, the root of it is power generation. The US (at least) is not solving the power generation problem in a way that can overcome the politics, corruption and outright stupidity. But I also think that it's very likely AI that will be in some way responsible for the solutions for these problems. There are so many problems to solve that are bigger than any of us have answers for. And if there are solutions for these problems, I have no doubt they'll be coming with the help of AI in some fashion. From my perspective blacklisting AI solves nothing and instead is abandoning the problems and giving up.

Hello, A small utility I built for my own workflow — export any page directly from the editor as a clean Markdown file. Useful for documentation, content migration, and feeding page content to AI tools. GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/PageMarkdown What it does: Adds an Export to Markdown button to the page edit form Smart HTML conversion — CKEditor content (tables, lists, headings, links, bold/italic) → standard Markdown Supports ProFields: Table, Combo, Repeater Matrix (with type labels and nested structure) Images and files render as Markdown image/link syntax Page references render as links or titles MapMarker, Email, URL, Color fields all handled Configurable: toggle field labels as headings, ignore lists per field/type, datetime format, empty HTML cleanup Requirements: ProcessWire 3.0+, PHP 8.0+ MIT License.

Hi @ryan and the ProcessWire community, Thank you for starting this amazing discussion. Like many of you, I've been deeply exploring how to make AI agents more effective within the ProcessWire ecosystem. Hearing about the new Agent Tools and the API.md initiative is incredibly exciting! ProcessWire’s predictability and clear architecture make it exceptionally pattern-friendly for AI agents. Building on this exact philosophy, I have been developing two complementary open-source packages: processwire-console and processwire-boost. I wanted to share my architecture and findings, as they align perfectly with the goals discussed here. 1. API.md vs. AGENTS.md (Data Documentation vs. Orchestration) @ryan your idea of adding API.md files to Fieldtype modules is brilliant and absolutely necessary. It solves the issue of the AI not knowing the exact CRUD syntax for specific module APIs. However, as @szabesz noted regarding directory structures (.agents/ vs global contexts), managing when the AI reads this context is equally critical. If we feed everything to the AI at once, we waste tokens and dilute the context window. I see API.md and AGENTS.md as completely complementary: API.md (The Knowledge): Native, module-level API documentation focusing purely on syntax and dataset interaction. AGENTS.md / map.json (The Librarian & Routing): Placed in the project root, this acts as a trigger-based router. Instead of holding documentation, it lists installed modules and triggers (e.g., "Use when working with HTMX components... read site/modules/Htmx/AGENTS.md" or "Working with Repeater? read site/modules/FieldtypeRepeater/API.md"). mcp.json: The configuration for integrating ProcessWire's context securely directly into Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers locally. By combining ProcessWire's native API.md documents with a root-level AGENTS.md / map.json router, we can keep the AI deeply focused. It drastically reduces token usage and limits hallucinations because the AI only reads the specific API.md when it is actively working on that module's scope. 2. Giving AI "Hands": The Console & Migrations While having readable documentation is half the battle, the other half is allowing the AI to safely interact with the system. I see that AgentTools natively introduces a very cool migration runner (--at-migrations-apply) and a dedicated CLI file for agents. This is a massive step forward to prevent AI from executing dangerous ad-hoc scripts. To build on this paradigm, my processwire-console package reimagines this CLI experience utilizing a full Symfony Console architecture. This gives both developers and AI agents strict, typed, and predictable commands, along with a dedicated migration architecture. Instead of editing a single agent script, the AI can seamlessly run independent commands like: php vendor/bin/wire make:migration AddBlogFields php vendor/bin/wire migrate:status php vendor/bin/wire migrate This provides a Laravel/Symfony-style schema migration system that AI agents understand natively. It allows them to scaffold entire schemas predictably without breaking the production environment. processwire-boost: To give the AI safe, read-only oversight, I integrated an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server over JSON-RPC. Agents can natively execute tools like pw_schema_read (to understand the exact templates/fields currently installed) or pw_query to fetch ProcessWire data securely before deciding how to proceed. Repositories & Working Examples If you're interested in giving these tools a spin or looking at how the AI components communicate with each other, they are open-source here: processwire-boost: https://github.com/trk/processwire-boost processwire-console: https://github.com/trk/processwire-console For a real-world example of a module that seamlessly integrates with this AI context architecture, you can check out the Htmx module. It not only includes its own localized AGENTS.md, but it also actively extends processwire-console by injecting its own CLI commands. For example, AI agents can scaffold native UI components directly from the terminal: php vendor/bin/wire make:htmx-ui Card Htmx Module: https://github.com/trk/Htmx @ryan your approach with API.md in the core modules is the final missing piece. When ProcessWire natively exposes its capabilities clearly through text, architectures like processwire-boost with intelligent context indexing will allow agents to seamlessly crawl, understand, and reliably act upon the CMS with unprecedented accuracy.

@tpr @Martijn Geerts @renobird @cstevensjr @Wanze @pwired @Mike Rockett @Zeka @SiNNuT @DaveP @justb3a @nik @MadeMyDay and so many others...

This is really cool and migrations is a proper test case for AI as they should touch upon almost every part of PW. I am as excited about all this as everyone else here! And this part (quoted above) of the blog post obviously made me and probably @Jonathan Lahijani and @gebeer think about migrations. Though I can imagine that @ryan himself didn't think about this in quite that context. I myself too was not so long ago questioning Claude Desktop about almost the same thing. How to track and migrate all changes from one installation (dev) to another (prod). How to commit, examine and review in-admin-made changes when working with the same PW site in a team. And I asked to compare with Rock Migrations and to propose something superior. The answer was in fact to offload "the entire scope of a ProcessWire installation (pages, templates, fields, modules, etc.)" to a file with a predefined schema. Then to build a tool to compare and to produce a diff, which could be applied to another installation. So today's blog post actually seems like a ground floor for this. I can present this document later if needed (but nowadays you can produce such for yourself in minutes) But me too wouldn't want to have AI be required to run these migration / apply those diffs. It might be true but still doesn't fit in team development workflow (if there will be one in the new brave AI coding world))) So maybe this is a time for us, humans and robots, to unite and create something awesome in joint effort? Humans may be not as productive. But they are imaginative. And they are the end users of PW still) P.S. Claude knows how to position himself correctly with all these compliments. I think we need to be careful with AI. Communicating with real people is, of course, less pleasant. But for now, it's still a necessity.

Have been working with AI for a while, learning on the go. A client presented with me a grand plan presented by Codex for his blog articles. I almost cried. Talked it over with my LLM, Marvin (named in honour of Marvin, the paranoid android of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fame). His/its response: There are two very different modes of using AI: 1. Guided use (what you and PW devs are doing) clear constraints known architecture intentional prompts validation after output Result: leverage 2. Unguided use (“vibe coding”) unclear structure shifting goals reliance on memory that doesn’t exist little to no testing Result: drift Think Marvin nailed it. 🙂 Just asked Marvin to review @ryan's blog article. I think he nailed it again: The quiet takeaway from the article This is the important bit most people will miss: AI makes good systems better and weak systems worse ProcessWire is a good system because: it’s explicit it’s predictable it avoids hidden complexity That’s why AI fits.

I really like the way things are going with ProcessWire and AI. Thank you, Ryan. I've been a big fan and strong advocate for migrations in PW, since I started using RockMigrations years ago. What makes RM a particularly strong candidate is the abstraction into a schema-like format which is much easier to understand/read/write than native PW API code. This is a real strength of RM and I would prefer a schema-based approach anytime over writing (or having AI write) PW API code. Claude is very good at understanding the PW API, other models are not that strong. But they all can understand schemata. Be it PHP arrays, JSON, YAML. So I would advocate for either developing an "official" PW migration schema or adapting the existing, battle tested one from RockMigrations.

Hey everyone, on a recent client project we had to deal with a large number of Markdown files that needed to end up as regular HTML content on ProcessWire pages. Converting them manually or piping them through external tools wasn't an option – too many files, too tedious, and the content had to be stored as actual HTML in rich textfields, not just formatted at runtime. So we built a small module that handles this directly inside ProcessWire. How it works The module creates a file upload field (md_import_files) and a Repeater field (md_import_items) with a standard title field and a richtext body field (md_import_body) inside. The body field automatically uses TinyMCE if installed, otherwise CKEditor. You add both fields (md_import_files,md_import_items) to any template, upload your .md files, hit save – each file gets converted to HTML via PW's core TextformatterMarkdownExtra and stored as a separate Repeater item. The source filename goes into the items title, processed files are removed from the upload automatically. Template output The Repeater items are regular PW pages, so output is straightforward: foreach ($page->md_import_items as $item) { echo "<section>"; echo "<h2>{$item->title}</h2>"; echo "<div>{$item->md_import_body}</div>"; echo "</section>"; } Tag mappings One thing we needed right away: control over how certain Markdown elements end up in HTML. For example, #headings in Markdown become <h1> – but on most websites <h1> is reserved for the page title. The module has a simple config (Modules → Configure → Markdown Importer) where you define tag mappings, one per line: h1:h2 h2:h3 strong:b blockquote:aside hr:br This performs a simple 1:1 tag replacement after conversion, preserving all attributes. Works well for standalone or equivalent elements like headings, inline formatting, blockquotes, or void elements like hr:br. Note that it doesn't handle nested structures – mapping table:ul for example would only replace the outer <table> tag while leaving thead, tr, td etc. untouched. Requirements ProcessWire 3.0.0+ FieldtypeRepeater (core) TextformatterMarkdownExtra (core) GitHub: github.com/frameless-at/MarkdownImporter Modules Directory: https://processwire.com/modules/markdown-importer/ Happy to hear if anyone finds this useful or has suggestions for improvements. Cheers, Mike

Contrary to Chrome's preload feature, it only fetches pages from the current site, and you can disable it: mu.init({ prefetch: false, });

@mattgs This is a very friendly community as a whole. But to be fair, both of you guys posted kind of unfriendly messages. And both of you make good points too. There are some big challenges in the world right now, none of us are perfect, and we've all got to do the best we can, where we can. So I think it's good that you guys have these environmental concerns, and we all should, and it's good to communicate these, share and learn, while also being friendly.

@mattgs Like Adrian, I also consider myself very environmentally conscious. I've not spent much time learning AI in part because I thought it was problematic for a lot of reasons. But I don't think we're likely to stop these AI companies so that's why I thought I should try things out with a company that seems to have more ethics than the others. Anthropic seems to have a mission for AI safety and sustainability. I hope it's legit. And as far as I can tell, the other companies don't, which I find concerning. But I'm also not as up-to-speed as you are on the on the issues you brought up, so I'll have to look closer as well as check out the video you mentioned (do you have a link?). I'm also aware that a project like ProcessWire gets executed millions upon millions of times every month (or day?) throughout the world, and every execution consumes energy. So I've always been very interested in optimization and making ProcessWire use as little time and energy as possible to do its work. The updates that we've been focusing on here are aimed directly at that. So perhaps AI is using a little energy to find optimizations and bugs in PW, but that single brief code review session reduces the energy usage of every ProcessWire execution going forward. This is a case where AI is likely saving a lot more energy than it consumes, indirectly by making ProcessWire use less energy. Some of the optimizations and bugs its found have been there since the beginning, and likely would have never been identified otherwise.

I'm happy to see you found your workflow using Claude Code. 🙂 A few things I'd suggest to make it a bit more future-proof and less focussed on one tool (Claude/Claude Code). I'm not sure if you use a CLAUDE.md file yet but in case you do or when you start using it, do this: In CLAUDE.md just add: @AGENTS.md And then write your instructions in/to AGENTS.md. The reason is simple: CLAUDE.md just works for Claude, but AGENTS.md works for almost any other AI agent. This way, either in a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md, you can customize comments in issues, like: ## GitHub issue and PR comments When responding in GitHub issue or PR comments: - Be concise, direct, and helpful. - Start with the answer first. - Use short paragraphs or bullets when useful. - Avoid unnecessary disclaimers, hedging, or repetition. - If the user asks for a change, give the exact action or code needed. - If more context is needed, ask one clear follow-up question. - Keep the tone professional, friendly, and technical. - Do not write long explanations unless explicitly requested. - Always add this as the last line in comments: [🤖 Answered by Joshi - Ryan's custom AI Agent.] Another thing you could change is updating the Claude settings.json to disable or customize the attribution line in commits and pull requests. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#attribution-settings

Hey everyone! I just released a new module called InviteAccess. It's something I built for my own workflow and figured it might be useful for others too. The problem: when handing off a staging site to a client or a design agency, you either open it to the world or reach for HTTP Basic Auth — which works but isn't pretty and requires server config. I wanted something in between: a proper gate page that looks like it belongs to the project, with separate codes for each team. What it does InviteAccess hooks into ProcessPageView::execute (before any template rendering) and blocks all frontend requests until a valid invite code is entered. Logged-in ProcessWire users always pass through automatically. You define codes in the module config, one per line: SUMMER2025|Summer Campaign AGENCY-PREVIEW|Agency Team CLIENT-ACCESS|Client Preview The label after the pipe shows up in the access log, so you can see exactly which team accessed the site and when. Features Multiple invite codes with optional labels Session-based auth — enter once, stays valid for a configurable number of hours JSON access log with timestamp, IP, user agent, URL — last 50 entries shown right in the admin config panel Light / Dark / Auto theme switcher on the gate page (saved in localStorage, reacts to OS preference) Accent color setting — red, blue, green or black Configurable allowed pages that bypass the gate entirely CSRF protection, hash_equals() for timing-safe comparison, Cloudflare-aware IP detection The gate page uses ApfelGrotezk font and a design inspired by processwire main page itself — warm gray background, white card, mobile-first. Screenshots Installation cd site/modules git clone https://github.com/mxmsmnv/InviteAccess.git Then Modules → Refresh → Install → Configure. GitHub: https://github.com/mxmsmnv/InviteAccess Happy to hear any feedback or suggestions!

I try not to worry about things I cannot control, and AI falls squarely in that category for me. It's here, it's not going anywhere, and every senior person I know in tech is embracing it rather than fighting it. I use it daily now and it makes me more productive. That's the reality. The people protesting or boycotting it aren't going to slow it down, they're just going to fall behind. That said, I don't think caring about the environmental and societal side means you have to opt out. If anything, the opposite. People who use AI and care about how it's built and powered are the ones with any real influence over where it goes. I'd genuinely have no hesitation donating to make AI development better and more responsible, that feels like a more direct lever than abstaining. Ryan put it well: sitting out doesn't improve anything. Use it, push for better, and concentrate on what's within your own family four walls.

This week on the dev branch we've got several commits with various core improvements and fixes. @adrian has been using Claude Code to suggest core optimizations (focused mostly on the PageFinder) and so he sent the suggestions to me. (PageFinder is the brains behind the $pages->find() method, and many others). I took the suggestions and coded them into our PageFinder, but didn't want to mess with what was already working well, so put them in a new class named PageFinder2, at least temporarily. If running the latest dev branch, you can enable PageFinder2 by adding the following to your /site/config.php: $config->PageFinder('version', 2); The most significant changes are: using subqueries for subselectors rather than separate independent queries; Reusing PageFinder instances (keeping a pool of typically 1-3 PageFinders rather than creating a new one for each $pages->find() operation); and lots of in_array() calls have been converted to isset() lookups, which should technically be faster (still the case in PHP8?, I'm not sure). There were some other changes as well. Theoretically these changes should make PageFinder even faster than it already is. I did quite a bit of testing and found that for the most part it performs the same as PageFinder v1. But then I came across a rather complex selector that translated to a much faster PageFinder operation, nearly twice as fast, and that convinced me it was worthwhile. While PageFinder v2 is not consistently faster than v1, there are some situations where it can be a lot faster. I'm not totally clear on what those situations are just yet, but I'll be doing more testing. In other situations it also can use a lot fewer queries, though that doesn't necessarily translate to a performance difference. But on the whole, all of Claude's suggestions were quite good, regardless of performance improvements. I was pretty impressed with what Claude Code had suggested, so decided to install it on my computer too. I've found it's particularly good at finding bugs. I'll ask it to do a code review on a core file, and it always has good suggestions. It uses ProcessWire terminology too. For instance it pointed me to an object that wasn't properly "wired to the ProcessWire instance", and that's something you'd only ever hear in ProcessWire land. Claude code also helped with improvements to our DatabaseQuery* classes, PagesVersions module, Wire base class, NullPage class, and minor updates to the PagesLoader* classes. I'm not having it write any code just yet, but am having it suggest where improvements can be made. I like to code. I asked it how it knew so much about ProcessWire, and it said that it stays up-to-date with the forums, the website, API docs, and GitHub repo. Thanks to @adrian and @Jan V. for recommending it to me (Jan V. uses it to manage this webserver), I can see how it's going to be a big help to ProcessWire with its suggestions and ideas, I'm already learning a lot from it. And if you get a chance to try the updated PageFinder, please let me know how it works for you. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Thanks for the feedback! Done in v1.1.7! 🎉 You can now manually select your CSS framework in module settings: Setup → Modules → Context → Configure → CSS Framework Options: Auto-detect (default) Tailwind CSS Bootstrap UIkit Vanilla CSS / Custom ← your use case None This will generate more accurate code examples and snippets for AI, specifically tailored to your vanilla CSS setup instead of assuming Tailwind.

I just came across this library and thought I'd share. Are any of you using this in your ProcessWire sites? It looks very similar to what I've read about HTMX but I have yet to test either properly. I just dropped the following into the head of my portfolio site and now navigation is as smooth as butter! No page load flicker, and I didn't modify anything else. The only bug on my site was when I tried to load the landing page in another language, but that may be as related to the URL segment, or the way in which PW organises translated pages? Not sure. I haven't learned enough about AJAX to know if this would interfere with existing contact forms or not without customisation (?). Curious to hear what you think, or if you're implementing this, HTMX or similar on your sites. Alpine AJAX looks like another interesting alternative. <!-- 1. uJS Script - Include the script --> <script src="https://unpkg.com/@digicreon/mujs/dist/mu.min.js"></script> <!-- 2. Initialize --> <script>mu.init();</script> https://mujs.org/

I saw it on HN last week and it caught my eye as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285876 I will be playing around with it at some point as I love the hypermedia approach of doing things (big HTMX fan). I like that it can do what they call "patch modes" (what other libraries call "islands"?). HTMX can do that too, but it's feels off with the "OOB" approach. That has always bothered me, but I think they are addressing that in HTMX v4. I've played with Alpine-Ajax and Datastar as well, but muJS seems like it best aligns with the way I think.

Wish I had more time to put into this, but for now just a few random thoughts, sorry in advance for the long rant: I, too, do see the issues that AI is causing (or at least some of them). But this train is not easy to stop. Programming is just one area it is affecting, but in this context I am personally leaning towards the conclusion that AI may well decimate the whole concept of humans writing code for a job. And if things continue to evolve at this pace I don't think it is going to be a decades long process. A few years ago I tried to create a module for ProcessWire from scratch using ChatGPT, and it was a miserable failure. Now Claude is at a stage where I don't think I can truly justify writing code myself from a productivity (or quality) point of view. AI has also made the devops part of my work quite different from what it used to be, and I see no evidence of things slowing down in the near future. For us who work in IT and more specifically programming / development, it seems to me that in the big picture there are a couple of options: get a new job that isn't (yet) as tightly coupled with AI, or keep up with the changes. Also, I wholeheartedly agree with a lot of what Ryan has written in this thread; it's quite a bit easier to influence things positively from the inside 🙂 There will no doubt be some cases where AI is not going to be as prominent, at least for a while. But it seems to me that those are either somewhat niche, or specialized cases. Gamers and the game industry, for example, have been pushing hard against using AI, which I completely understand. ... and of course I may be wrong, and this whole thing may come crashing down any moment. Predicting the future is not easy. By the way, it would be interesting to hear about ways to make AI use less of a problem. A co-worker mentioned https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk, which is a Rust tool that claims to reduce AI token consumption by as much as 60-90%. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but e.g. cutting your token use to half should also cut your energy consumption to half, right? (For the record, I have not yet tested RTK properly, so can't say if it works that well.)

@teppo Thanks, good to hear the more I use it, the more I'll be blown away. I've been using AI ever since ChatGTP first came out, but primarily just for technical questions and such. For instance, a couple months ago Claude helped me figure out how to reduce static pressure in our HVAC system by rebuilding (DIY) the return plenum and filter rack, and it was super helpful. I posed the same questions to GPT and Gemini but they weren't nearly as helpful. This week is the first that I've gotten into collaboration with the actual code. Adrian showed me all the things Claude Code had recommended for the PageFinder, and I found myself really liking what it had found and suggested... Seemed like we were on the same page, just like with the HVAC work. The other thing is that I've found it a little overwhelming with all these models (GPT, Grok, Gemini, Claude, etc.) with big changes almost weekly, and if these companies were ethical and ones I'd even want to be putting money towards. Then I learned about why they created Anthropic in the first place, and last week heard how they were sticking to their ethics and wouldn't cross their red lines despite government pressure. Sounds like integrity to me, something that is hard to find with big companies. That opened my comfort level and clarified for me that Anthropic's Claude Code was a good place to dive deeper with this stuff.