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This week we’ve got a new core version on the dev branch (3.0.55). This version has a whole bunch of fixes and adjustments. It also adds a new drop-down page tree that we cover in more detail in this blog post. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.55-core-updates/

No problem – I've updated the "regular" demo site to use this latest version of the admin. It's not all that different from the one that was there, but does have the new offcanvas nav and several other minor tweaks that weren't present before. If you check it out, and you checked out the previous iteration, you probably want to clear your cache or login with incognito mode, as the demo site has some aggressive cache control headers and I neglected to update the css/js version links. http://demo.processwire.com/regular/processwire/ u: bloguser p: processwire3

Last week’s post indicated we may have the first [beta] version of the Uikit admin theme ready, and I’m glad to report that we’ve now got it ready for download on GitHub. In this post, we’ll describe what’s new, how to install it, and how to develop with it. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.54-and-adminthemeuikit/

@vwatson I was able to duplicate this issue when selecting text in a <td> and dragging the selection a little bit past the actual text. What I found is that you've got to be really careful with the link selection in a table cell, or else CKEditor will include part of the <td> element in the selection. The result is that when inserting a link of that selection, you get an invalid link, which isn't allowed there, so CKE moves it above the table. So far I can't figure out how to automatically modify that selection to narrow it in, but I did figure out how to detect it and cancel the action. I've also set it to show an alert box telling you to re-try the selection. This at least prevents the insertion of the invalid link. Please replace your /wire/modules/InputfieldCKEditor/plugins/pwlink/ directory with the contents of the attached ZIP file. Do you find this also resolves the issue there? Thanks. pwlink.zip

This week we've got a demo setup of the admin theme framework that's been written about in the last two weeks of posts. Read all about it here and try it out from our demo site– https://processwire.com/blog/posts/demo-of-admin-theme-framework/

Marc, it sounds like you've got a bottleneck somewhere. You mentioned a remote DB connection, and maybe there's something to to that. You also mentioned Windows (I'm in unix), and it's certainly possible there's something platform specific going on. Here are some things you can do to narrow in on where it might be. Edit your /index.php file and before the line that says this: $config = ProcessWire::buildConfig($rootPath); Add this: Debug::timer('pwboot'); Now edit your /site/templates/_init.php file (or whatever gets called first) and add this at the top, after the "namespace ProcessWire;" (old school and rough, but gets straight to the point): die('Boot time: ' . (Debug::timer('pwboot')*1000) . ' ms'); Now you can get a sense of how long it takes ProcessWire to boot, before it hands off the request to you. This should give you an indicator as to whether you need to look at the modules you've got installed, or whether you need to look at the API calls in your templates. Hit reload several times in your site (front-end) to get a sense of the average boot time. On my oldish Macbook Pro and PHP 7, running the site-default profile with no 3rd party modules installed, these are my average boot times: ProcessWire 3.0.52: 53 ms (opcache off) ProcessWire 2.7.3: 104 ms (opcache off) ProcessWire 3.0.52: 35 ms (opcache on) ProcessWire 2.7.3: 35 ms (opcache on) As you can see, without PHP caching the code, ProcessWire 3.x boots nearly twice as fast as ProcessWire 2.7 (at least in my environment). Interestingly, if PHP's cache is enabled, then the boot time is identical. But when Soma said above “ProcessWire is getting slower and slower each iteration”, this is a blanket statement that is the opposite of reality. ProcessWire is getting faster and more optimized with each version. What's real is that clearly something about the conditions present in his environment and your environment is reducing performance, and that needs to be narrowed in upon. So the next steps will be to determine if it's something about the server, something from a module, or something going on in the template file(s), like some specific API call that might be common among your installations. Now go to your Chrome dev tools, Network tab. Hit reload several times like you did before (same URL). Note the first request in your Network tab. Take this time and subtract the time you recorded above. This represents (roughly) the time required to load PHP before it gets to ProcessWire. With opcache off, my PHP takes about 100ms before it loads ProcessWire's /index.php file. If I enable opcache, then I'm seeing almost no overhead from PHP at all. Meaning, Chrome dev tools is showing 40ms or less. I'm guessing that your remote DB connection is going to mean your boot times are significantly higher than if it was local. So maybe you shouldn't be looking for the same boot times that I'm seeing here. But hopefully you can get a better idea of whether the times you are seeing are related to the boot process, or what happens after the boot process. If you are seeing it in the boot process, then uninstall all 3rd party modules and test again. Or go one-by-one until you can narrow in on which one it is. If still seeing a slow boot then we might need to start looking at potential Windows platform issues. If your boot times seem reasonable, then the next step is to start debugging in the template files. Let me know what you find and I can suggest the next steps.

A stock PW3 installation should actually be faster than PW2 – it certainly is on all of my installations. There's a lot more optimization in PW3 than in PW2. If that's not what you are seeing, then it's time to start looking for where the bottleneck is. PW3 does not have more significant overhead than PW2 except when it is compiling a file for the first time. The 30% increase numbers mentioned above sound to me like that is a request where PW is compiling a file. You can expect a request where it has to re-compile a file to take longer. But it only has to do that once, when a file changes and needs to be re-compiled. Maybe that's a common occurrence on a dev site, but should be a rare one on a production site. I'm measuring here with Chrome dev tools, ProfilerPro and my own timers using the Debug class. What tool are you guys using to measure times, and in what quantity? Before deciding something is PW3 related, I really suggest testing with a basic/blank profile without other modules installed. If you are consistently seeing any kind of increase in render times under PW3, my guess would be that something is getting recompiled on every request for some reason or another, or that there is another module involved that runs slower under PW3 for some reason. Edit--A few things to add: Debug mode is going to be slower in PW3 than in PW2, simply because PW3 is tracking a lot more stuff than PW2 did. With debug mode off there should be no difference though. Keep in mind debug mode is for development, and not something you should ever leave enabled on a production site. PW3 is more efficient with resources than PW2. PW3's boot time (stuff it does before executing your template file) is 20% to 45% faster in my testing. PW3 executes 20% to 25% fewer queries as part of the boot, and loads up to 50% fewer pages. Autoload modules become part of the boot process, so I test with no 3rd party modules installed. The file compiler can potentially add a little bit of overhead even when it doesn't need to compile, because it has to determine whether something needs compilation. But on a default site profile we're talking about maybe 10ms at the most here. If you turn off the template compiler, then that overhead is gone. While PW3 uses fewer resources on the database side, but sometimes more resources on the file system side. If you've got a slow file system, you might notice it more in PW3 than in PW2. For those of you seeing PW3 to be slower than PW2, if it's determined that 3rd party modules are not a factor, I would be curious what's happening in the template files. Perhaps there is a bottleneck in a certain API call or something that we're not aware of yet. It would be interesting to see the results of profiling the API calls in your template files using ProfilerPro or Debug::timer() calls. Mostly specific to Soma: PW2 and PW3 are identical in terms of how they use joins and indexes. Regardless of version, PW will use as many joins as it takes to execute the selector you give it. Just like you can create complex or inefficient SQL queries you can also create equally inefficient $pages->find() calls if you aren't being careful. Using PW's API doesn't mean you are somehow bypassing the database. Your find() queries still become SQL queries. So if you are working on big and complex projects, then you need to watch and profile your work. When you a come across a complex find() operation that is expensive, refactor it to be simpler or break it down into smaller parts. Pay attention to how many pages you load in memory at once. Don't use find() and children() calls without "limit" selectors when dealing with potentially large sets. With regard to indexing, PW logically indexes all the columns that are likely to be used in find() operations, but if you are querying columns in a table have no index for whatever reason (3rd party module that forgot an index, or column not commonly used for queries), you may need to add one. Most of us never need to do this, but since you mentioned "big and complex" you may be in the territory where you have to apply more consideration to these things.

We're going to be sticking with Font Awesome as our icon set. While Uikit comes with its own SVG icon set (and one certainly can use those) the scope and quantity of them is pretty limited relative to Font Awesome. Previous versions of Uikit actually used Font Awesome as their icon set, but in Uikit 3 they switched to their own set. There just aren't enough of them to cover our needs, plus I'd prefer to stay consistent with icon usage. So not planning to implement any features specific to Uikit v3 icons at this stage. As far as I know the Uikit cards aren't related to material design. They are a default styling that Uikit has for something that is visually offset in a different way. With the default styling that they've got, I've found the card view helpful when you get into nested Inputfield elements, as it makes it a little easier to visually identify the hierarchy vs. the completely flat look. I understand all-flat look is what's trendy right now, and my intention isn't to get into the design aspect at all. Though I appreciate that the Uikit folks recognize that there is a need for this kind of thing. So it'll be up to the people that get into the design side to interpret how one translates the card style in a Uikit theme. This one will also be open to interpretation in the actual theming process. I'm just trying to make the colors as obvious as possible at present.

Last week we looked at progress on a new admin theme framework for ProcessWire. This week we’ll do the same, as development continues to move forward and we have a lot more screenshots to share (though keep in mind this is largely un-themed/stock). https://processwire.com/blog/posts/continuing-work-on-new-admin-theme-framework/

This week we’ve started developing a new admin theme for ProcessWire that aims to be a community collaboration. We’ve now got some good momentum with lots to share in this post. We also get into some technical details and have screenshots as well. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/working-towards-a-new-admin-theme/

This week we give extensive coverage on how to optimize 404 requests in ProcessWire. In this post you’ll learn about why 404s are significant issue, and then we’ll look at what you can do to optimize and ensure your site doesn’t waste valuable time and resources serving irrelevant crawlers and bots. This post also briefly covers this week’s core version 3.0.52. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/optimizing-404s-in-processwire/

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Consistent with the plans of introducing new site profiles this year, we’ve started work on the new site profile, and have the first version ready this week. This profile contains a blog component and uses the new Uikit 3 front-end framework: https://processwire.com/blog/posts/introducing-a-new-processwire-site-profile/

This week's version of ProcessWire expands upon our markup regions support introduced last week, and also contains various minor fixes and tweaks. In addition, it adds a $urls API variable which is simply a shortcut to $config->urls. But since this is so commonly called upon, the shortcut can be useful in reducing verbosity in some template files. Meaning, if you want the URL to /site/templates/, you can now use the shorter $urls->templates rather than $config->urls->templates, if you'd like. This also adds consistency with our recently introduced urls() function that's part of the optional Functions API. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.50-core-updates/

It's such a small simple module that I think your best bet is just to edit it directly, and perhaps rename it (to avoid it potentially getting overwritten in the future). Remember to rename both the filename i.e. TextformatterMyVideoEmbed.module, and the class name to match. Then do a Modules > Refresh, and install it.

This week we take a look at a new template file output strategy available in ProcessWire 3.0.49+. (Not to be confused with a “template system” like Twig or the like, as our template system is PHP). This strategy is an experimental but super-simple new alternative to direct output and delayed output, and in some ways a combination of both. Yet it’s likely to be more accessible for front-end developers and newcomers to ProcessWire, without sacrifices. Have a read and let us know what you think. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.49-introduces-a-new-template-file-strategy/

This post includes coverage of the latest weekly core dev version, an update on ProDrafts, and more. It's a bit of a short post this week due to a change in schedule today, so some of the planned content for this week will be in next week's post. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-3.0.48-core-updates/

Sounds like you found a good solution. Other potential solutions are reading and re-writing the options from your render() method, or override the renderOptions() method, or just modify the protected properties inherited from InputfieldSelect (like $this->options or $this->optionAttributes).

If you use a renderReady() method, here's what the definition looks like: https://github.com/processwire/processwire/blob/master/wire/core/Inputfield.php#L1009 Remember to end by calling the parent::renderReady() method as well: public function renderReady(Inputfield $parent = null, $renderValueMode = false) { // perform any needed initialization here return parent::renderReady($parent, $renderValueMode); }

The thing you quoted from the API reference is specific to Module configuration. Configuration data for the module (that which is configured in Modules > InputfieldSomething) would be populated after __construct(), and before init(). But you are attempting to access configuration for a Field rather than a Module. The method you are using (getConfigInputfields) is what is used by Fieldtype and Inputfield modules for configuration of a Field. This is unrelated to Module configuration, because a single Fieldtype/Inputfield module can be used for multiple fields. Further, an Inputfield module can be used independently of ProcessWire's Fields system (like in other forms that aren't connected with PW fields) where a getConfigInputfields() method wouldn't even apply. For these reasons, you can't have field/instance-specific configuration data populated to Fieldtype or Inputfield modules as part of the usual Module boot process. For an Inputfield module, you would want to move whatever field-specific initialization you need into the ___render() method, or renderReady() method instead if you need it to happen before.

It would just depend on what's being worked on. I generally don't push stuff to GitHub until I know it's solid. If working on something that's going to take a couple weeks to get to that point, then I'll avoid having it appear on GitHub because it wouldn't be ready. Since plans for 2017 include a focus on some things that may go beyond the usual weekly timeline focus, I'd say that weekly activity on the GH repo would reduce a lot when these things are being developed. Of course, activity on the core code wouldn't be reduced at all (likely increased), but the frequency of commits that appear on GitHub would be reduced. Plans are to keep it roughly as-is. But since it's now ~130 posts, it's time to add a few more things like categories, related posts, next/prev post links, etc. I also want to upgrade it to be more guest-author friendly, so that it includes authorship information like we have in the tutorials (example).

Happy New Year! Looking back over the last year, it's been a really great year for the project, and wow has it gone fast! In this post we'll look back at some of what we've accomplished over the last year, and–more importantly–introduce and review our 2017 roadmap. Today we've also released version 3.0.47 dev, which doesn't add anything new feature wise, but does contain several optimization and bug fix comments. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/roadmap-2017/

Historically w3techs has been tracking this stuff the longest as far as I can tell, and their information is updated often. They show ProcessWire nearing in on the 0.1% market share threshold (only 2 spots away from the 0.1%+ table). The info on this page below is interesting. The entire page is sorted by market share (highest to lowest). It shows a lot of CMSs ahead of us, but a lot more below us in market share, including some fairly recognizable ones. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

Christmas stockings are where you find the small gifts, while the big stuff goes wrapped up under the tree. Yet, looking back, it often seems like some of the most useful stuff ends up in those stockings… Swiss army knifes, digital tire gauges, flash drives, and so on. This week, the big stuff is between you and Santa, but what we do have are lots of useful stocking stuffers for you to enjoy in ProcessWire 3.0.46! https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.46-stocking-stuffers/

This latest version on the dev branch includes several tweaks, fixes, upgrades and some nice optimizations. This post covers them all, plus a look at our new Page field configuration. Then we conclude with some fun API tips and tricks. https://processwire.com/blog/posts/pw-3.0.45/