Peter Knight

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

waiting on @blad or @josss to make a remix called "I'm dreaming of a wire Christmas".

Merry Christmas too, everyone.

Hi Josephic Welcome to the Forums. Would you be happy to have Top Menu link to the first child? Google ProcessWire First Child Redirect

Well explained. It's really important when you're learning a new system to be completely comfortable with the terminology. If the words used to describe something doesn't gel with you, then you're not going to absorb the concept. Reminds me many years ago of trying to learn expression engine when everything in the tutorial book (and Expression Engine) was called a blog. I didn't get it (at the time) until EE 2 came out and their internal terminology changed. So these days, to counter getting hung up on a keyword or label which I find confusing, I will treat a word as an anagram instead. IE Instead of thinking "its a page", imagine it's a P.A.G.E and make up your own meaning for this such as Part of Anything Going to be Edited Pod for All your Generated Entries Place Already Great for Expansion I'm sure there's better possibilities but it may help. Or it may make things worse :-/

Can you point me in the right direction for mirroring a list of pages by say, archive (month) or authors or categories. For example, the Archives page might have: December 2014 Post 1 Title Post 2 Title November 2013 Post 1 Title Post 2 Title For example, the Categories page might have: Category A Post 1 Title Post 2 Title Category B Post 1 Title Post 2 Title In MarkupBlog Module, you're using this. is it less verbose if it's done with native PW methods? public function renderArchives(Array $years, Array $options = null) { $out = ''; //default options for archives $defaultOptions = array( 'archives_posts_text' =>$this->_('post,posts'),//come in the format 'singular,plural' for e.g. October 5 'posts' 'archives_month_view_all_text' => $this->_('View All'),//'view all' that month's archives if limit set on amount to list ); //merge user options with default archives options if($options != null && is_array($options)) $options = array_merge($defaultOptions, $options); else $options = $defaultOptions; list($singular, $plural) = explode(',', $options['archives_posts_text']);//come in the format 'singular,plural' $post = '%d ' . $singular; $posts = '%d ' . $plural; foreach($years as $year=>$y) { $year = $y['name']; $total = $y['total']; $months = $y['months'];//this is an array $url = $y['url']; $out .= "<div class='archive'> <h3><a href='$url'>$year</a></h3> <span class='num-posts'>" . sprintf(_n($post, $posts, $total), $total) . "</span>"; $out .= "<ul class='posts-group'>"; foreach($months as $monthNum => $month){ $out .= "<li><a href='" . $month['url'] . "'>" . $month['name'] . "</a>"; $out .= "<span class='num-posts'>" . sprintf(_n($post, $posts, $month['total']), $month['total']) . "</span>"; if(count($month['posts'])) {//posts will be empty if $blog->archives() call specified 0 for limit; $out .= "<ul>"; foreach($month['posts'] as $item){ $out .= "<li><a href='$item->url'>$item->title</a></li>"; } if($month['total'] > count($month['posts'])){ $out .= "<li><a class='more' href='" . $month['url'] . "'>" . $options['archives_month_view_all_text'] . "</a></li>"; } $out .= "</ul>"; } $out .= "</li>"; }//end foreach $months as $monthNum $out .= "</ul></div>"; }//end foreach $years as $year return $out; }

Think it depends on the designer/developer. I like to have a summary on blog-posts at least as sometimes you wish to keep the title short but then have a longer summary. Originally, I did that for SEO reasons too.