PW's modularity and Redaxo CMS

[steveooo]

Hello,

I am using PW for some time and I am thinking a lot about modularity in ProcessWire. In a German CMS called Redaxo, everything consists of blocks. A page has many blocks and every block has an input and output. It is pretty simple for the user to stack blocks per page to build content for a site.

So I can define a "media gallery" block, a "Q & A" block and the user can stack them like he want's. And every block is a file so it can simply reused for the next project.

How can I achieve this in ProcessWire and: Is this a good practice in regards of PW's structure?

Let's start a discussion about it! I really like PW but I can not really get the gist of modular behavior in PW. I am also searching for some good practices. I currently try to achieve this kind of behaviour by using PageTable and creating templates for each block/component (prefixed with "c-")...

Thanks for you answers in advance!

[LostKobrakai]

There are already a bunch of topics about exactly that topic. Currently your options are pagetable, pagetable extended or matrix fields, where the last one is a commercial pro module. Depending on the specific need one might be a better fit than the other.

[steveooo]

Hi Kobrakai,

Do you have any links about the topics with the same topic? I did not find anything.

[cstevensjr]

A few of the many links to get you started (google is your friend):

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/10394-content-block-builder-in-processwire/

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/7350-smart-widgets-blocks/

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/10769-static-content-blocks/