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Hi folks, Another long-time Textpattern (and Textdrive VCII, anyone remember?) user here who wants to convert to Processwire. I've always felt the textpattern interface was rather unsuitable for non-blog sites with all its unused fields and options, and I'm really looking forward to getting familiar a new structure. I know my way around HMTL/CSS/Jquery, and I am learning/copying/pasting/googling PHP Thanks to all the tutorials, documentation and fine users posting in here I think I've already started to get a grip on things, but I am still confused by some of the main ideas of processwire. As a first project, I would like to build a simple portfolio single-site. It should have three sections: projects, exhibitions, and about. - The projects sections should be a list of projects with each project entry containing Name, Year, Description, multiple imgs - Exhibitions should be a list of exhibitions, with each exhibition entry containing Name, Year and Description - About should be a simple biography text (I'll leave this out from the detailed write-up below, think I can handle this..) I can already see that Processwire is much more flexible than the article based approach that textpattern uses, and coming from the latter I suppose it simply takes some time to make sense of things… Anyways here's what I would do next or rather how I imagine processwire to function–I am not sure if this is the "right" way or order to do it so any input would be very much welcome! 1. Setup - Set up the fields needed for the project and exhibition articles. - Set up the templates needed for each of the articles pages (e.g. article_project, article_exhibition), add fields - Set up the templates needed for each of the (invisible) overview pages (overview_projects, overview_exhibitions) 2. Pages - Create the (invisible) Projects & Exhibitions pages, assigning each of the pages the overview_xxx templates I created - Create subpages and assign them the article_xxx templates I created 3. Structure/Code - Create template file for the main page (e.g. index.php) and assign this to the home page in the backend - Create foreach loops for both exhibitions and projects Does that make any sense? Looking forward to learning new things! Cheers Phil
