AdminStyleRock - easily style your ProcessWire backend with two simple settings

[abmcr]

I have a strange error in installation process. The module don't install itself :  i attach the screenshot.. PW is a correct version but the module say "Less".

What is broken? Thank you

[bernhard]

Nothing is broken. It just means that you don't have the required Less module installed. 

[PWaddict]

Hi @bernhard installed Less module and then AdminStyleRock but when I submit the "Primary Color" field I'm getting the following fatal error:

Fatal Error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function forceRecompile() on null in C:\laragon\www\mysite\site\modules\AdminStyleRock\AdminStyleRock.module.php:168

#0 C:\laragon\www\mysite\site\modules\AdminStyleRock\AdminStyleRock.module.php(123): AdminStyleRock->iframe(Object(InputfieldWrapper))
#1 C:\laragon\www\mysite\wire\core\Modules.php(4112): AdminStyleRock->getModuleConfigInputfields(Object(InputfieldWrapper))
#2 C:\laragon\www\mysite\wire\core\Wire.php(419): Modules->___getModuleConfigInputfields('AdminStyleRock', Object(InputfieldForm))
#3 C:\laragon\www\mysite\wire\core\WireHooks.php(952): Wire->_callMethod('___getModuleCon...', Array)
#4 C:\laragon\www\mysite\wire\core\Wire.php(484): WireHooks->runHooks(Object(Modules), 'getModuleConfig...', Array)
#5 C:\laragon\www\mysite\wire\modules\Process\ProcessModule\ProcessModule.module(1680): Wire->__call('getModuleConfig.. (line 168 of C:\laragon\www\mysite\site\modules\AdminStyleRock\AdminStyleRock.module.php)

 

[bernhard]

Hey @PWaddict thx for the report. I had a look and you just need to install RockFrontend to make it work. Not sure if we really need that dependency just for this single feature but as a quickfix that is what you can do ? 

[PWaddict]

3 hours ago, bernhard said:

Hey @PWaddict thx for the report. I had a look and you just need to install RockFrontend to make it work. Not sure if we really need that dependency just for this single feature but as a quickfix that is what you can do ? 

Since it wasn't working, I've uninstalled AdminStyleRock and followed the instructions from here. You should mention somewhere on AdminStyleRock module or it's page that specific field to work requires the RockFrontend module to prevent confusion.

[bernhard]

Thanks for educating me on how I should develop my free and open source modules ? 

I hope you don't mind that I went a different route and added a check if RockFrontend is installed or not. Everything works without RockFrontend now as of v.1.0.6

Thx for spotting and reporting that issue.

[bernhard]

v1.3.0 is out and makes it even easier to set a custom logo in the PW backend ?

[bernhard]

I'm working on improving the RockPageBuilder config page and added toggle buttons instead of checkboxes as they are a lot more intuitive (especially if you have default=yes toggles, where you'd need to use a negative meaning with checkboxes, eg "dont use the widgets feature" vs. "use widgets feature yes/no"

The default toggle looks like this in ProcessWire:

There it is not really obvious which value is selected. Is the grey one the active item or the shiny white one?

I think this is much better:

So I'm wondering if that should be a global default for toggles in AdminStyleRock - what do you think?

[MarkE]

1 hour ago, bernhard said:

So I'm wondering if that should be a global default for toggles in AdminStyleRock - what do you think?

I think that's a lot clearer

[bernhard]

Thx! While I don't agree on everything, this was an interesting read: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/toggle-switch-guidelines/

I've added some opacity to make it even more obvious ? 

[matjazp]

I don't like toggles at all. I find them confusing. I use a checkbox or radio group. It’s clear what you want, accessible and doesn’t make me think. 

[Jon]

Hello, I just updated to the latest version but seem to be having an issue with the PageTree. Is anyone else experiencing this? (Latest dev version of PW)

[bernhard]

What exactly is your issue?

[Jon]

Hello Bernhard, 

The page tree now display -N -X --, == or is that intended?

[bernhard]

Yes, that's intended. It tries to better distinguish page statuses for people that might not see well where different colors alone are not enough. And it tries to do that without the linethrough which makes it less readable as well.

[bernhard]

As we have a new core admin style now I guess there is no need to keep AdminStyleRock alive any more, so I'm going to archive it sooner or later. Any different opinions?

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/31242-new-blog-admin-theme-redesign/

As the new theme introduces a lot of issues I might keep AdminStyleRock alive. We'll see how things evolve!