DrewPH Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 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. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndZyk Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewPH Posted September 23 Author Share Posted September 23 Thanks very much for pointing out the error! Now fixed (I had done some refactoring but missed one instance in a selector). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewPH Posted September 24 Author Share Posted September 24 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 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongondo Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 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! 🙂. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbmnfktr Posted September 24 Share Posted September 24 Uuuh... that's nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poljpocket Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 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 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewPH Posted September 25 Author Share Posted September 25 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndZyk Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 @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/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrewPH Posted September 26 Author Share Posted September 26 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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