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We use Emailit which has smtp support but its made for APIs.

Many thanks @virtualgadjo and @AndZyk for your inputs. In fact I thought I would build my blog structure in a very simple manner, but both your input showed me, that thinking about structure is well worth!

Hi I'm currently building my website with PW (a few pages and templates) and I'm wondering what's a way to integrate a blog function with categories and tags so tha I'm not limited in terms of functions and I can expand my website. There are so many possibilities and ways to do this in PW. What are your experiences or tips for me as a beginner to realise blog functions? Many thanks

Many thanks @bernhard.

Hi @bernhard. I apologize for not being so specific, you're absolutely right. I just wanted to bring RockPageBuilder working with site-rockfrontend profile. Just to reflect. I can not recover every step anymore, but after installing and setup as in docs RPB was only shown with its functions on the home page, but not on basic-page. I was muddling around in tempaltes directory and tried dozens of combinations or single entries in single and/or in many template php files or in latte files with those snippets. PHP <?= $rockpagebuilder->render(true) ?> or Latte {if $page->template == 'basic-page'} {$rockpagebuilder->render()} {/if} or {$rockpagebuilder->render()} Yes there were red errors instead of fixing them. Then I just reinstalled pw with all modules needed. I've learnt so many aspects about PW, several rock-modules and site-rockfrontend profile and their structure. I know that is not a systematic and specific (not a best) way. I just wanted to have RockPageBuilder and site-rockfront having up/running, using an unstructured try and error workflow.

Hi @bernhard Unfortunately only the main page home worked with RockPageBuilder, with basic-page everything stuck. It made no step, where I placed either the code snippet or the latte directive. I reinstalled pw with all modules/site-rockfrontend needed several times, but it shouldnt be so complicated or tricky;-) I always downloaded the site-rockfrontend profile from https://processwire.com/modules/site-rock-frontend where version 1.0.0 is indicated as downloadable, but its the newst version on github. But now I used this version 1.3.2 on https://github.com/baumrock/site-rockfrontend/releases. And using this version - that worked also for other templates.

Many thanks @bernhard for your hints. Now it works. For me it was unclear where to put the render() snippet in, I understood where it I tried several files, but now it works. In the RockPageBuilder doc you mention using the site-blank profile, where all works, but I like the delayed output defined in site-rockfrontend.

Hi I intended to test RockPageBuilder with a fresh site-rockfrontend profile and most Rock-Modules. I installed page-edit-front and adjusted the profile in Rockfrontend to rockpagebuilder. Where to put the following render <?= $rockpagebuilder->render(true) ?> I tried to set it in different php/less files in /site/templates with this profile. Many thanks for a hint.

Hi @bernhard many thanks for your explanation. Yes, I see that there are use cases for both of them depending on user preferences or user knowledge.

Hi What are use cases for ListerPro or RockGrid? Are there any similarities or even differences between them? Many thanks

Hi I am currently setup a new staging instance and I asked myself if there are changes to the db privileges needed for PW since the last answers in this thread. MariaDB on my hosters site permits those privileges, but not all are neccessary for PW and modules I guess: ALTER ALTER ROUTINE CREATE CREATE ROUTINE CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES CREATE VIEW DELETE DROP EVENT EXECUTE INDEX INSERT LOCK TABLES REFERENCES SELECT SHOW VIEW TRIGGER UPDATE Any recommendations from your side? Many thanks

Vmany thanks @kongondo for your additional workstyle. VSCode seams to be definitely a nice tool. But I didnt reach the resource bottlenecks yet. For some config centric sysadmin work I used Sublime Text editor with Remote Subl and rmate on server, which let you work via ssh on external instances. I liked it configurability, I guess its the same work style like Vscode and remote dev. Currently I like the idea of a mix of using Vscode with its comfortable extensions and possibly I will stepwise adding the local ddev functionality, with those ingredients whats needed then.

Thanks @Ivan Gretsky for your VS input and the mention of cowboy coding. I will try VS remote dev out as an experiment and have @Sanyaissues mention about RAM monsters in VS code in the mind.

Many thanks for your hint @Ivan Gretsky, indeed this is an appraoch without having npm installed.

I am not a deep diving webdev like many of you. With WP I learnt many things about Bootstrap (used it via Livecanvas Builder) and build some things with CSS frameworks (Pure and Bulma). I decided to build my own website with another tool from ground up with pw;-) Since PW is available via Softaculous for the first steps its ok (install, db, and try pw admin), since it installes the intermediate site-profile, but then I wanted to go through the Pw install process itself, tested around, installed pw many times, installed different site-profiles to discover the different output strategies and tested @bernhards cool site-rockfrontend. And enjoy this friendly community with soooo many hints and ideas, even for PW beginners. Really great.