Peter Knight

How would I refine this selector to list only my tags. Tags are simply an array of pages stored within a field called blog_tags? The following PHP partially works in that it lists all pages based on blog-post template. The problem is it lists outputs the titles of my tags and the blog posts too. <?php $mytags = $pages->find("template=blog-post");//All pages based on blog_post tamplate foreach($mytags as $taglet){ echo "Tags:{$taglet->title}";} ?> I've tried editing the selector to target the field with the template $mytags = $pages->find("template=blog-post, field=blog_tags "); but my syntax is clearly wrong. I then tried targetting the echo statement and that's wrong too echo "<strong>Tags:</strong> {$taglet->blog_tags->title}";}

Surely say the learning curve is neglible? I mean apart from understanding how the Finder works and some basic navigation of the directories, there can't be much to learn. BTW I'm actually a Mac and PC man myself. Been building my own PCs for years (for gaming). I've nothing against PCs but think Windows is a nightmare.

@Kongondo - I had a question about the directory structure and upgrade compatibility. Can I add my own custom fields to the default blog-post template and will it survive future upgrades? I need to create a second set of tags called Client Location. These tags will have their own folder into which I'll store those tags (pages). If I add this folder to your blog folder structure, will this survive future upgrades?

Must check out ProCache and AIOM. Do you have any before and after stats on page speed?

Pete - you need to get a Mac *runs for cover*

Cheers, thats nice. Did it take you long to get used to the UI? I like the way I can flick between Inbox and traditional Gmail app too

@Nico Any updates planned to fix the problem when FormBuilder is installed? I can just uninstall MarkupSEO for the mo but it's a great module. Would love to have it functioning

There's a wish list / feature request on the forums. You should add your requests there to make sure they aren't lost in the threads of...t i m e .....

I see what you mean. I guess it comes down to perference. I never liked the icons. As a general rule, I think FontAwesome and font icons are over used anyway. Glad you like it though and welcome to the forums

Hi Misan I'm genuinley interested in hearing why you feel processWire is "a bit clunky" and which version you are using. I felt the same initially but using 2.5 is important because it replaces TinyMCE with CK Editor. That makes the whole experience less clunky. Also, check out the RenoBird theme which is real nice UI redesign by RenoBird (Tom Reno). Try those and let me know how you feel about the experience?

As a tech demo I think it's great. As a mechanism for turning browsers into leads, I'm not so sure it'd give you a great response. I don't think you have provided someone is at the stage where they know what they want or they're ready to divulge that info That's quite a gamble up front. IMO you want to start off with the broadest conversation possible with the least amount of fields. Before you start funneling people down into specifics you could have a form which asks for : Name: Email: Company: How can we help? This way people can free type in the "how can we help" field. If they have specific details at hand, they can tick a box titled I have project details ready (Yes/No) which loads the larger form. But make it clear to people that they don't have to go down this route.

Cool. Missed that one. I notice it's still in BETA but I'll give it a shot. P

@Kongondo Any plans to introduce a Comments link on the Blog dashboard. Clicking it would display a list of comments across all posts and have batch actions (approve, disapprove, block). Also, we might be able to filter between categories and further filter between approved, disapproved and spam? We don't ask for much, eh?

Back to OP, I had reservations too when I first started using PW. It was the tree view I was concerned about too. IE I wondered how PW would handle a list of say, 200 sub-pages. Would users have to scroll way down a massive list of posts? Would the back end be slow? Once I started using PW, I realised this was a moot point as PW will paginate your pages within the admin every 50 or so pages. See screengrab of the PW Skyscrapers Demo and notice how the Architects pages are paginated and have very fast next/back arrows there too. PW is incredibly zippy and accessing any page takes no time even when you have to drill down into sections The admin search is very fast so you cna jump right to a page if you know the title or contents PW 2.5 has a Recent Pages link which is very handy Again, there's the Lister Pro module too which is an extra bonus

Just a quick update to this older thread. I know it's still being linked to from some other posts. Another possible solution (paid) is to use the ListerPro module to display news posts in the admin area. I'm using it to create a paginated list of blog posts and I've another Lister view setup to display lists of posts with certain tags. Worth a look.

Ha - I didn't mean to imply that. I think you've covered a few angles and have thought it through better within each scenario.

All good ideas. I had a similar proposal in the past.

So you have a select field which selects an item Category. And each Category is a page?

Cheers Joss. You're right re. scalability. I was getting hung on "the simplicity" of the first approach (which uses PageTable). What I should be doing is making a simple template called "studio-update" with just my body field as date can be handled by the page creation date. Later on, I can add and remove fields if requirements grow. Or I could even have a Blog for this where posts for Updates are simply tagged "update". They could then be hidden from the main blog secton but displayed on their own "updates" page. Too much choice. That's my problem

I have a feed of "studio updates" on a site. They're essentially 1 liners of plain text. Using the ProField called Table, I've setup a simple repeatable table of fields consisting of a date and an update. The mechanism above works perfectly and I know I'll get a lot of mileage from it. I don't need the complexity of a blog for this or comments, categories and tags. Or at least I don't need that stuff right now. BUT... I wonder if I should at least consider something a bit more scalabale. I have a niggling sense that I should look at each entry as a seperate PW page and consider the fact that I *may* need some entries to include RTE fields, link to pages and even feature a photo. I don't need that functionality *right now* but right now is actually the best time to build it in? I suppose I already know the answer is to think ahead and think scalable but I liked the simplicity of having a single page with my repeatable fields within this. What would you do?

I'm pretty sure MarkupSEO is causing issues when viewing form results generated by FormBuilder. I posted the issue in the Form Builder Support but in case anyone isn't a member (VIP forum), here's the details. Error on viewing FormBuilder entries Error: Exception: Unknown Selector operator: '' -- was your selector value properly escaped? (in /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Selectors.php line 247) #0 /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Selectors.php(284): Selectors->create('1.2', '', '') #1 /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Selectors.php(81): Selectors->extractString('1.2') #2 /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Pages.php(165): Selectors->__construct('1.2') #3 [internal function]: Pages->___find('1.2', Array) #4 /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Wire.php(389): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) #5 /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Wire.php(344): Wire->runHooks('find', Array) #6 /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Pages.php(260): Wire->__call('find', Array) #7 /home/sites/pretendy-url.com/public_html/wire/core/Pages.php(260): Pages->find('1.2', Array) #8 /home/sites/pretend This error message was shown because you are logged in as a Superuser. Error has been logged. Ryan's suggestion Uninstalling MarkupSEO makes the FB entries viewable again.

Google hasn't used Keywords as a ranking metric since 2009-ish. Here's the offical post from Google. I think the keywords field should stay. Clients are hard-wired into believing that Keywords matter because they did for so long. Not having a Keywords field could negatively impact first impressions from some clients. As someone else mentioned, other Search Engines might have their own policies re. keywords. I'm not an SEO professional. For anyone wondering where the focus should be, the two most important ranking factors used by Google are: Quality incoming links from relevant sites. Quality is the key here and 3rd party sites themselves must have a good reputation. Relevant, quality content that is updated and shareable. I think in total there are thought to be around 200 "signals" which Google ultimatelty uses to determine ranking. Any SEO pros on here to confirm?

More a reflection on my PHP noob-ness. Somtimes you discover *a* way to do something, stick with it and don't realise it may not best practice. 's all

@cmscritic - I really hope you get some great feedback here and CMS Critic becomes even better as a result. Much respect for the website and the amount of energy and commitment it must take to make it fly. That CMSCritic is built on PW and you gave a wonderful case study is even better The problem for me when I visit CMS Critic is that I want to read some content yet the advertising is constantly fighting for my attention. As a result, I rarely visit and when I do, I rarely hang around and browse. I literally don't know where to look as the nice design and visual hierarchy of content is overtaken by shouty Ads. By chance I came across this site earlier and immediatley thought of your problem. I noticed how the three navigation, advertising and content columns are handled differently and wondered if it was an option. http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/custom-php-contact-forms/ Because the advertising column on the right (on a desktop) has that nice light grey background, there's a subtle but effective distincition between the advertising and the content. Since the content is on the white background, I immediately understand that this is where my attention should be. I don't have to think about it - it's just intuitive and actually, the advertsing doesn't bother me as much. Anywho, I'm not looking to make more for anyone but maybe this is something useful.

Mock up the UI?