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Soma, Thanks, I forgot about that approach. I'll take a closer look at it now. This site is almost like 3 distinct sites in one, without using subdomains. I need to do something before it gets too out of control.

The current project I'm working on is quite large. I've found that my templates folder is getting a little difficult to keep tidy (even with a decent naming convention). It would be nice to create sub-directories within the templates directory that also get searched when adding new templates. Maybe a leading underscore to signify additional directories that contain templates? Templates _template-group-1 _template-group-2 _template-group-3 Directories without an underscore (ex: includes,tools,etc..) would continue to work as they do now. There may be pitfalls to this approach, but I wanted to throw it out there. Additionally, if any has another method for maintaining sanity in their templates directory, I'd love to hear about it.

Awesome! I hadn't seen HTML Kickstart before, looks really cool. I've used Skeleton and Bootstrap quite a bit, both are great.

This is great!

You are a machine Marty! Nice work.

Can't wait to try this out! Thanks Ryan, incredibly useful.

+1

Just thought I report back with an actual working method for this scenario. I needed to get the title of the next page (category) and create a thumbnail for that category using an image from the first project in that category. our-work - category1 - project1 (need first image from here) - project2 - project3 - category2 - project1 (need first image from here) - project2 - project3 if ($page->prev->id) { $prevThumb = $page->prev()->child()->images->first()->size(100,100); echo "<a href='{$page->prev->url}'><img src='{$prev->url}' /><br />{$page->prev->title}</a>"; } if ($page->next->id) { $nextThumb = $page->next()->child()->images->first()->size(100,100); echo "<a href='{$page->next->url}'><img src='{$next->url}' /><br />{$page->next->title}</a>"; }

Me too. Thanks Ryan!

OK, False alarm. The error was because the next/prev pages don't contain the images — it's the children of the next/prev pages that have the images field. I forgot I moved the image to the child pages (been on this project too long.) Apeisa, forced me at gunpoint to come here and confess my sins. As you were...

Hello all, How can I access the first image on the prev/next pages? I'm trying to use a thumbnail of an image from the prev/next pages to create a simple nav. I was hoping this would work: $nextThumb = $page->next->images->first()->size(75,75); echo "<a href='{$page->next->url}'><img src='$nextThumb->url' /></a>";} But I get.... Error Call To A Member Function First() On A Non-Object

Hi Lance, Steve is correct. One of the first things I built in order to learn PW, was a front-end profile editor. What I have is fairly specific to a University environment, but I think I can strip it back to a more simplistic form and get a walk-through posted. I'll report back soon.

Ryan, This looks awesome! I could see myself using this right out of the box.

Barry, Nice. I'll give that a test soon and see how it works. Thanks for posting.

Barry, You may want to take a look at Soma's MarkupSimpleNavigation module. -- Tom

Hey Ryan, I like the look of the Blue Ridge Beverage site. I haven't seen a lot of your design work, but it seems to have your style. Some thoughts: • Increase the font-size to 17px or so on the main nav — it's a bit small for and hard to read as-is (IMO). • in the events section, have a link back to events, in addition to the link back to the division. If you didn't get to the event via the division, the "back to division-x" is moderately confusing. Just my opinions of course, thanks again for sharing. Also, The Almanac of Architecture and Design site is really cool. The default PW theme is a bit weird to see on a production site, but it works well and there is some really cool stuff on there.

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It's a completely different approach. PW is built around "custom content types" by design. You can have whatever fields you want. Textpattern (like a lot of other CMS's) is built around the concept of an "article" or "post". There are a lot of plugins (modules) for Textpattern, and some of them are super powerful. (smd_calendar for example). I built nearly every site you see in my portfolio with TXP, before I discovered PW. There's something to be said for that. All that said, I honestly think you should keep your head down with PW and get through the PHP learning curve. PW's approach is unlike any other system, so if you are happy with how it handles content, then you are in the right place. And remember, every time you learn something new with PHP, that's a skill that has value and can translate to other environments — learning the ins-outs of a tagging language is great, but it doesn't lead anywhere other than to mastery of that particular system.

Don't be scared off by the look — it might look a tad dated, but there is a very active and helpful community. The admin can be themed to look a bit more modern (keep in mind I did that nearly 4 years ago). There is a lot going on behind the scenes with development, and I think they are well on their way to releasing a complete overhaul (TXP5). I can't recommend it enough if you are looking for solution that offers a tagging language and lots of ready-to-use plugins.

That's great! I've used skeleton a few times now, and it's really solid. There is also an offshoot of skeleton on github that is essentially the same thing, but also includes a 12 column grid instead of just the 16. I find that I use both depending on the project.

I would suggest you take a look at Textpattern for the smaller builds where you need a stable of plugins that can do a variety of what you mentioned above. It uses a tagging language much like EE, although I personally find Textpattern's a bit easier. I've built dozens of sites with Textpattern, and still continue to use it for a variety of projects. Good luck.

Some seriously good ideas here. Chad, looking forward to seeing what you guys are doing over there.

Awesome! Just plain awesome.

Alan, Stumbled across that feature myself. Was super happy when I did.

Wow. This is really cool.