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  1. 3 hours ago, heldercervantes said:

    So we've got PW in one category this year, and the wrong one. To me that feels like a loss, which will reflect another dip in that Google Trends chart over the next year.

    CMS critic is one website and not even a very popular one. It has done great stuff promoting PW (and many other systems out there), but it is very small amount of visibility.

    ProcessWire is steadily pushing forward, but it is true that some systems did get more popular in much faster - especially craft. See this https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=all&q=processwire,craft cms (I believe they did get most users from dying Expression Engine community where they were popular plugin authors).

    I think ProcessWire is "old dog" now for most - it isn't "new and interesting" anymore, so all kind of marketing "gimmicks" should be used. New features should be promoted much more (videos, tutorials, blog posts etc). Ryan is doing most of the development, weekly posts and supporting his paid modules, so this is something where community - all of us - could help. 

    Also I believe that this website, docs, tutorials etc are those parts of this project that can be most easily delegated to community. Another one is having official starter themes (site profiles) and admin theme. We have amazing amount of design and development talent here, I wish we could collaborate more easily.

    We all know Ryan is busy, so do not wait for green light and guidance - if you feel like you could do something for our community - just build it and share it! More people will pick interest and great things will happen!

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  2. Not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve. You need PHP to use PW, you cannot use it from html only. 

    Why don't you install processwire on www,yoursite.com/api/ subdirectory? There your /index.html could be static html/js and then /api/* would go for pw.

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  3. Hi Teppo

    Tested this on latest ProcessWire (ver 3.0.62). Seems to work very well, except Image/File fields. In both of those it is possible to recover removed files, but when doing so, it loses the current files. These screenshots probably shows it best:

    First I have 2 images:

    Sieppaa1.PNG

    Then we remove the other one:

    Sieppaa2.PNG

    Now we only have the city photo there:

    Sieppaa3.PNG

    Then I can go back time and find the Desert also:

    Sieppaa4.PNG

    This preview works pretty nicely (although file names are hashed). But then after saving the page disaster happens:

    Sieppaa5.PNG

    Desert is saved, but the city has gone 0 bytes.

    Any idea what might be causing this? I thought it might be image field related, but the very same happens with file fields also.

  4. Your users actually live in page tree: Admin => Access => Users => User

    So you can just create your users like that. Instead of $p = new Page(), just use $u = new User(); and you are good to go. No need to define template and parent in that case also, if I remember correctly.

    PW also has possibilities to use different templates than user for users. That is usable if you really need different fields for different kind of users or you need them to live on other place at pagetree. More information about that from here: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-core-updates-2.5.14/#multiple-templates-or-parents-for-users

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  5. I hear what Teppo is saying, but choosing templates would pretty much nail that concern. Developer has chosen to show those templates through API, so leaves no place for confusion in my opinion. 

    I will definitely give this one a good ride. 

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  6. Great blog post Ryan, thank you! Great year behind and even better coming!

    What comes weekly news, I think maybe @teppo and PW Weekly could report interesting new stuff from dev branch - instead of full blog post by @ryan each week?

    Also I think what would really help PW as a community project is that modularity would be more easily seen from code repositories also. I mean separation of /wire/ from rest of the stuff, keeping admin as own project and making several core modules as their own projects (although they could be "essentials" that would always be installed with ProcessWIre).

    What comes to Avoine, I hope I found time to write case story about how we use ProcessWire as backend solution to our member register platform Avoine Sense. Sense was released early 2016 and it already hosts about 10 member registers that together hold about 150 000 members.

    Feature-wise Sense already has newsletters, custom reporting tool, invoicing, model based templates/fields, background jobs, client specific procedures build by chaining actions (ie. create excel, connect ftp, deliver file and finally send sms to admin), full read/write REST API with Oauth2 authentication, mobile application, embeddable login/edit forms etc...

    ProcessWire has been amazing platform for our application development (currently we have 4-5 developers working on it). I strongly encourage that you all consider ProcessWire as a viable alternative for serious application development also. It is perfect platform for building dynamic websites, but it is also pretty brilliant platform for application development!

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  7. I'd say that if your small business can afford week or more development time (high quality and/or unique look and feel, some custom processes, integrations or just big site), then ProcessWire is excellent option. If they just need lot's of bells and whistles out of the box, then some high quality WordPress themes or SaaS offerings (wix, squarespace etc) would be best.

    Due the nature of ProcessWire, it is actually also very nice for pretty static websites, where only few places are editable (maybe news, menu or price lists etc).

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  8. On 8.11.2016 at 11:30 PM, Robin S said:

    Got it, thanks. And your interpretation of those movies clearly goes much deeper than mine :D

    Sorry guys, I have been laughing five minutes alone here for your vagina monologues vs avengers debate :D 

    It was indeed our link spam protection plan (that actually worked pretty well). So @fbg13 no worries about any virus, just poor humor from moderators. 

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