eltikon.online

[DrewPH]

Here's a site from someone new to ProcessWire. I've been developing with PHP and WordPress for donkeys years, but decided to try building a site with PW to see if it might be a better platform choice for the kind of sites and apps I build these days. Spoiler alert: it is.

https://www.eltikon.online/ 

I'm not holding this site up as any kind of design example - it's a really, really basic hobby blog. What's more important to me is that I managed to build it from scratch in PW (previously it was a WordPress site) in about 20 hours, starting with zero PW experience, and my templates folder is really tidy with just a few small, well-structured PHP files. And that 20 hours includes sorting out the RSS feed, the XML sitemap, the SEO, etc etc.

So my reason for posting is really to say that I found the PW architecture and methodology instantly comfortable and intuitive, and PW is going to be the first platform I consider for most future builds. It fits with my "hate visual builders, love coding" methodology, and I aim to get the ProFields Repeater Matrix module, since Advanced Custom Fields Pro's flexible content field has been at the core of all my WordPress sites for ages.

Site details: I started with a clean install of PW 3.0.229 and the "site-simple-blog" site profile by tcnet, which I proceeded to completely rip apart and rebuild as part of the learning process. Non-core modules installed are SeoMaestro and ProcessPageViewStat, nothing else.

[AndZyk]

Congratulations to your new site. 👍

Just wanted to mention that your tag pages seem to throw an error, f.e.: https://www.eltikon.online/tag/trackwork/

Regards, Andreas

[DrewPH]

Thanks very much for pointing out the error! Now fixed (I had done some refactoring but missed one instance in a selector).

[DrewPH]

A little postscript to this thread... 

Though I'm loving ProcessWire, I don't love any of the core admin themes. I like restful colours that don't scream at you but I also don't like plain white with no differentiation between functional screen areas. I discovered AdminStyleRock and its customisation possibilities, and with about 30 minutes' work I now have a rather nice Nord Light admin theme as you can see. I've attached my admin.less file (I hope attaching a .less file works!) and anyone interested can follow the instructions at the top of the file.

 

admin.less

[kongondo]

23 hours ago, DrewPH said:

Here's a site from someone new to ProcessWire

Hey @DrewPH. Welcome to ProcessWire and the forums. Thanks for sharing your exciting journey with us! 🙂.

[wbmnfktr]

Uuuh... that's nice!

[poljpocket]

Cool to see a project about my home country but not in my home country! Greetings from Switzerland!

A very cool blog you have there. Model trains bring me back to my childhood, we had a ton of Märklin trains and of course, most of them were Swiss trains 😍

On 9/23/2024 at 10:37 AM, DrewPH said:

"hate visual builders, love coding"

I think many of us feel this way. Welcome to the family 😊

[DrewPH]

Greetings and thanks! I was last in Switzerland in 2018, which was my 6th trip there (my 1st was in about 1980 I think). I'm not sure if I'll get there again (getting too old for long flights) but I'm making a 3m x 1m reminder of it in my office room...

I'm loving ProcessWire and am finding it easy to find answers to my questions online - maybe because PW's way of doing things fits my own, so the things I want to solve, other PW developers have also solved.

I'm now building my first custom module and am starting to enjoy coding again (I've been in the WordPress ecosystem for a long time and am a bit fed up of it to be honest).

[AndZyk]

@DrewPH  Glad to hear you are enjoying to work with ProcessWire. 👍

Sorry for nitpicking, but there is a left-over image from WordPress on your newest article. 😅
https://www.eltikon.online/catenary/

[DrewPH]

8 minutes ago, AndZyk said:

there is a left-over image from WordPress on your newest article

Oops. Copypasta can be a bit of a blunt instrument. Now fixed.

I appreciate you taking the time to let me know!