Peter Knight

Still thinking this is badly missed from PW. When creating a field, it's natural to want to assign it to a template. @apesia is right that we'd need to consider the field order.

Cheers Ivan. I'll try it that way. I got used to doing one way and then they changed it ...

I noticed an echo statement was coded incorrectly and yet it still worked Any ideas why the project_managers field outputs properly ... <?php if ($page->projects_managers){ echo "<strong>Project Managers:</strong> $page->projects_managers </br>"; } else{ echo ""; } ?> ...when it should probably be as follows (concatenated) <?php if ($page->projects_managers){ echo "<strong>Project Managers:</strong>" . $page->projects_managers . "</br>"; } else{ echo ""; } ?>

Does anyone here use Foundation 5 and CodeKit 2 and SASS? Things have changed since v5 was released and I wanted to sanity check my setup and my understanding of it. In CodeKit 2, I've created a Foundation project and pointed it at a folder called Foundation within my site/assets/scripts directory. _settings.css (foundation > scss) This is the place to make fundamental changes to the framework. IE change the background color or base font size. This is then compiled by CodeKit 2 into a file called: app.css (foundation > css > css) This file should be referenced in my HEAD as follows (your paths may differ) <!-- Foundation 5 --> <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $config->urls->site; ?>assets/scripts/foundation/css/app.css"> Previously I'd created a file called foundation-custom.css at the end of my HEAD and used that for custom over-rides. With Foundation 5 and the _settings.css, is this bad practice or no longer necessary or not important?

I caved and ordered that DS415+. Ouch but YAY. Can't wait to try it. Love Plex too btw.

For the synology fans out there, the new DS415+ has much better specs. Better CPU and a healthy amount of RAM. https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS415+ I'm sorely tempted to Amazon uk one over here but the Euro to GBP conversion isn't great right now. Still I've added and removed it from my basket about 10 times this week. Must be driving their analytics and cart usability analysts nuts.

Mate, you're the one that started most of that back chatter I was talking about

@dazzyweb Exactly. Glad I'm not the only one. There's been a few PMs doing the rounds on various industry topics. I've been involved in a few but heard of others so there's clearly an appetite for it.

Any thoughts on having a private general discussion area on the forums for members that meet certain conditions? For example, members with 200+ posts etc? It could be called Private Pub or something. It's not so much for PW questions but general industry chat which you don't want public on the forums. Use case: I had a general client/freelancer question today which I didn't want to be public. That type of thing...

When you say "button" are you referring to a button on the front end of your site? I'm assuming you have multiple buttons and each button is related to a category? Probably a question for the Dev forum but here's a jQuery example of what I think you're trying to do. http://isotope.metafizzy.co/filtering.html

I hadn't heard of it before. Are these things still useful now that so much is in the cloud?

@Pete How do you find the Synology? I'm hoping to sell my QNAP 209 for the Synology Slim or Air. They get great reviews.

@pwired - that sounds cool. When you say "linux box server", whats the enclosure / hawrdware actually look like? is it a rack server or an NAS? I'd love to serve sites myself from the home office but like Joss, UPS (uninterupted power supply) and the likes put me off.

Happy Friday everyone! Picked up a new VPS subscription last month after using shared servers for years. Feels great having a space I almost completely manage myself thats not shared etc. What are you guys running your client and business sites on at the moment and are you doing anything cool with it? Probably some of your are on dedicated or even hosting in-house? Generally interested in HDDs, storage, hosting etc so I'm just curious.

I'll try that. Thanks Mr. Geerts. I also found it's already possible from 2.3. Post here from Mr. Cramer. I'll add it to the list of "things I really want PW to do which are in fact already possible"

I just deleted the tables in the root of the databse where the name matched a field I wanted to zap. Good to know there are other places.

Duplicated an existing site hoping to save some time on the general setup and Modules install. Time to remove a lot of previous fields. Clicking a field name and visitng the Delete tab was getting boring. I thought I'd manually remove the rows from the database and hit refresh. The fields are still showing within the Fields page/tab when I thought they would have been force removed. Now when I try to manually select a field and browse to the Delete tab, the delete checkbox is greyed out. Which is not true of course. Interestingly, if you remove a template from the database and then visit the templates page (under Setup), the Templates are succesfully removed. Realising that field removal isn't supposed to be carried out in this way. :-/

Are there any plans to introduce custom icons within the tree? Either based on template (config setting?) or on a page by page basis hooked up to a font awesome library etc. For example, this admin theme has a page icon beside each page In general, is this best handled by some custom CSS or would a module be a better approach.

Looks like a broken link or they've removed the post.

Thanks everyone for sharing their stories. Much appreciated and aligns with some of my own experiences. Anyone else?

Most Marketing people I meet have heard of WordPress. It seems I'm repeatedly being asked if I "do wordpress?" when I meet new clients and start talking about content management. Without knowing exactly why their project would be better suited to a more accomplished CMS, most marketing people simply reach for WordPress because "thats what everyone uses right?". It's a challenge we all probably face. In 2015 I'm trying to strengthen my reasons for clients to be more "open" with their CMS choice and at least consider other options. With that in mind, I am wondering how many members here are ex WordPress? I'm trying to get a rough ideas of numbers and some brief stories too. If you have a moment and you came to PW from WP, could you write a few lines about: What made you leave WordPress in general How you discovered PW What you like about PW Any client feedback you've had where a client too moved from WP to PW If you'd prefer to private message me about this, please do.Just to be clear, I'm not looking for a general WP bash here or to create some kind of flame war.

Happy new year back at you, Ivan and everyone else. Hope 2015 is a great one professionally AND personally. Nice to see pics of peoples neighborhoods too

@stikki. What had you been using prior to PW? And welcome to the forums

Peter - this was one of my questions too before I started using PW. Luckily PW handles this natively in a very cool way via pagination as @Mats mentioned. There's a few other nice touches which PW features: The search in PW is lightning fast and allows you to jump to any page within seconds. Even if that page is buried within container pages etc, it's a quick operation. PW has a Recent (Pages) shortcut under the Pages tab which is another great way to access recent pages within a few clicks. Finally, there's a paid Extra called ListerPro which allows you to save views of certain pages. It's a good question but not anything you need to be worried about. I think the PW demo of the fictional SkyScrapers site (see link on PW site) holds some bunches of pages within the paginated format. Worth a quick look.

Not sad at all. A whiz in the accoustics and video department though