Peter Knight

I wouldn't start by installing a Module such as Blog etc. I believe for you, a better approach would be to gradually build your own from scratch. You'll learn a lot more that way. Start with a few individual pages based on a template called "blog-post" and add a few basic fields. Just title, summary and body would be fine. Once you can make and view them then try to create a blog overview or homepage displaying the title and summary of each and a link to each full post. Lets say that template is called blog-posts (plural) You'll get a real kick out of just being able to do that and you're just echoing simple tags and getting to know "foreach" statements. Then try to add a date field to each blog post and add that to both templates. Later you can try adding a main image, maybe even an author and then move onto tags and categories. I think you'll get much more enjoyment out of building your own and a better understanding of the fundamentals.

Can you drop your own sample into a CodePen or similar? Anytime I've had margin or padding issues with UI kit it's because I was missing a uk-grid or had my own CSS interfering with the flow.

Reinstalling did the trick.

I had a botched upgrade today and looking for some help. I was running the previous UIKit theme and then tried to install the new version. Fatal error: Class 'ProcessWire\AdminThemeFramework' not found in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/site/modules/AdminThemeUikit/AdminThemeUikit.module on line 18 The odd thing is I seem to have all the files in place I need. I'm going to try restore the database to see if that helps and reinstall my wire and index files etc

@abdus That Might be a hybrid theme or a version of the RenoTheme. Either way - love his implementation. I was trying to figure out those little arrows on the drop down menus. Looks like Ryan has it in hand etc.

If you or anyone else wants to make this happen, let me know. Possibly wait until I know Ryan's plans. I don't want to duplicate work or have several almost identical themes. ? I can supply raw css. Just need someone who knows Git, Less and has time to collaborate etc.

Go for it. Looking forward to seeing more themes (and tutorials)

It took me about 20 - 30 minutes so I imagine someone with the right skills wouldn't have an issue. The Colours are mainly inspected from another window with the original Classic theme open. It's also just a preview. There's probably a ton of detail that would need to be considered. Modals, alerts, image thumbs etc etc etc. I had it easy doing a single screen.

Playing around with the UIKit theme this morning and tweaking it. It's called UIKit Classic and it's a nod to the Classic theme. For me the Classic theme always sticks in my mind as being most definitively Processwire-ey because It was my fist intro to PW I thought the colours were quite unique and like the mix of blue, pink and green. They're very distinctive and I'd hate for PW to look like just another WP install. In a crowded CMS marketplace I think it's good to differentiate visually. The two screengrabs are just the same screen. A before and an after. I put this together using the Chrome the web inspect tool so there's no fancy mixins or LESS etc. Actually there's not even any CSS now that I've refreshed the page. I do think there needs to be a detailed comprehensive through tutorial for people wishing to make their own themes. Probably 85% here don't need it and understand the directory structure and how it's all compiled but equally I think there's another 15% here with the design skills but not the tech chops to get this done. If we want designers to design themes then we need the process with screengrabs, list of software (I have CodeKit, Dreamweaver, Sublime etc). Anywho - just my 2€ worth The before shot below...

Personally I like it. I'm using it more and more and hope to get time for a simple theme soon. If you get a chance, can you document the steps you took to get you customising UIKitTheme? I know your toolset is probably different than mine and it's about 4 years since I used CodeKit. Possibly thats a stand alone thread titled "Customising UIKit" etc or something? For example, I've installed UIKitTheme and activated it. I have a local folder called site/assets/AdminThemeUikit Within this I think it's the site/assets/AdminThemeUikit/uikit/custom directory I need to drag onto CodeKit to create a project From this point I'm a little lost as to where things are. For example if I want to change the color below to #eb1e62 then where do I locate that LESS file generating the CSS The colour variables .uk-h1, .uk-h2, .uk-h3, .uk-h4, .uk-h5, .uk-h6, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { margin: 0 0 20px 0; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; color: #333; text-transform: none; } I think I just need a pointer in the right direction and I'll be flying!

But are the original instructions about moving the files from /wire/modules/AdminTheme/AdminThemeDefault to /site/modules/AdminTheme/AdminThemeDefault still relavant? I did the above, made some changes to the css file and the admin in still picking up the original CSS file in /wire/modules/AdminTheme/AdminThemeDefault

I think this is a really positive thing to do. Focus on what you enjoy working on and where you want to take someones site and maybe they'll see that sincerity and take notice.

Anyone know if this post is still the recommended way to reskin an existing template?

Really interesting requirements there. I'm assuming your intranets have a ton of files. How do you handle these? Use a file field on a page by page basis Create separate pages to represent each file Use a single page to act as a bucket for all files something completely different

After Ryan's post yesterday re. the new Login Module I was thinking how great it is to finally have this in the core. I get asked a little about Login Modules when I show PW to people. Just out of curiosity, what type of features are you asked about when showing PW to your peers? Here's the top 5 FAQs I'm usually asked. Does it have ... user login/out and membership management have good SEO support image cropping incl media management versions or drafts capability with approval process e commerce And then sometimes ... page builder type fields (Matrix I guess) Multilingual support Taxonomy / tags / categorisation Blogging Web forms What kind of stuff do you get asked about?

Wonderful to see a native Login script. I'd say it's in the top 5 queries I have when I show PW to another designer/developer.

I this is the paradox of PW's admin. It's so simple and efficient that a new user may be a little underwhelmed. As users we all understand why this is. But if you're coming from WP or something with lots of bells and whistles promoted from the initial screen, then PW can seem quite sparse. I don't think this is a bad thing at all but imagine you're a developer trying to sell PW to your team and convince them to abandon CMS X. They're going to have to understand that the beauty is in the API, the flexibility, the scalability etc etc I'm not knocking the Admin here. Just saying you only realise these things (flexibility, scalability, simplicity) when you've crossed that line and are an actual user.

I've been using it a lot more lately and have grown to really like it. I think what I prefer are the drop downs from the top navigation bar. Reno theme doesn't have this and requires an extra click. It just feels less snappy / fast. I know an extra click isn't much but as a "power user" I could be editing multiple sites a day. I'll never get those extra clicks back

About as "managed" as the host gets Thanks abdus. I've solved it by copying back all my working files and re-installing the database and it worked.

That's the weird thing. There's no errors in the error logs and none in the PW logs either. I downloaded the site and database onto my own test server and it works fine so it must be some wierd GoDaddy setting.

I think I've been through every GoDaddy related post on the forum but not had any success so far with this. Basically, a client's site started to throw various errors after a failed SSL install by their host. Accessing https://www.domain.com results in an error and a redirect to https://www.domain.not/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi Accessing http://www.domain.not gives a blank 500 page Im happy to side step the SSL issue at the moment if I could get the site up. I'm pretty sure it's a .htaccess issue as adding "blahdhdgdgd" to the start of the .htaccess file results in an "internal Server Error" Tried every .htaccess tweak I could find to no avail. Even restored an older .htaccess file from last week before the SSL issue doesn't work. It's a "real doozy", this one

Never got round to Bootstrap 4. I used BS 2 and really liked it but the pace of development was pretty slow. Foundation were introducing some great features that I liked so I switched. I was probably a little hasty with the switch because I began to miss the simplicity of Bootstrap, it's much better docs and support for xs screens. What led me to UI Kit (V2 at the time) was a project I worked on really needed a native dynamic grid. UI Kit had that and it worked really well. I can recommend UI Kit 4 though. It's looking like a really advanced but simple to use system. Thanks for the BS 4 tip. Will have a look.

Looking forward to a few of the v2 components making it to UIKit 3. I've about 5 live sites running on it and it's very finished but missing a few sliders, dynamic grid etc. Well worth a look. Lovely framework.

I'm happy to contribute on planning and design. I won't really be able to get stuck in until sometime after Jan 2018.

These are just demos and often running the default skin. I think Ryan has mentioned a few times he's keen to stress that they're not design proposals.