How to edit

[Bia]

Hello, I am back with some silly questions: 

How can I edit the following text from my website, I am not sure how to explain. Thanks for anyone replying

Edited April 11 by bia

[wbmnfktr]

This can be everywhere.

From a page, to a translation file, straight from a template, a custom module.

First of all look through the page tree of your website and identify which page you are looking at, afterwards check the fields in that page or the template to make sure.

Who built that site? Maybe you should contact them and ask.

[Bia]

Thanks. I don't have contact with the person that build the site and I need to make some changes to the site. This specific parts that I added here are not appearing in the Tree, nor can I find them anywhere. Is it possible that I am not seeing the whole Tree?

[BrendonKoz]

Because ProcessWire is so configurable, content can come from many different places, such as:

• The page tree
• Language translation files
• Site template files
• 3rd party services / APIs / Webpages
• An external database/application

This is entirely dependent upon how that section of the website was built, and since all we can see here is a photo representation, we can only guide you through an overview of your options.

This isn't a situation unique to ProcessWire - other CMSs, such as WordPress, would also suffer similar issues, depending on how plugins were used, and how the plugin authors implemented their modules.

As for your specific question: "Is it possible that I am not seeing the whole tree?" That depends on your account's access level. It also depends on whether there are sections hidden within the Admin node in the tree.

Is there any additional information that you can provide in relation to this page, and the "following text" that you wish to edit?

[Bia]

On 4/15/2025 at 5:09 PM, BrendonKoz said:

Because ProcessWire is so configurable, content can come from many different places, such as:

• The page tree
• Language translation files
• Site template files
• 3rd party services / APIs / Webpages
• An external database/application

This is entirely dependent upon how that section of the website was built, and since all we can see here is a photo representation, we can only guide you through an overview of your options.

This isn't a situation unique to ProcessWire - other CMSs, such as WordPress, would also suffer similar issues, depending on how plugins were used, and how the plugin authors implemented their modules.

As for your specific question: "Is it possible that I am not seeing the whole tree?" That depends on your account's access level. It also depends on whether there are sections hidden within the Admin node in the tree.

Is there any additional information that you can provide in relation to this page, and the "following text" that you wish to edit?

Thank you very much for the answer, I am really new to all this, I am struggling editing buttons and the design of the page per total. I am using Processwire 2.5.3, I am waiting for an update and maybe after this I can understand more, also I think I might not have access to everything I am trying to change. I used only easy drag and drop type of web designing. 

All the best

[Bia]

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Found the soulution, only need one more

On 4/11/2025 at 1:35 PM, Bia said:

Hello, I am back with some silly questions: 

How can I edit the following text from my website, I am not sure how to explain. Thanks for anyone replying

Access/usersLanguage translation files

 

Language translation files

The only thing I need to find now is where is the options from inside the table:

[bernhard]

On 4/17/2025 at 9:26 AM, Bia said:

I am using Processwire 2.5.3, I am waiting for an update and maybe after this I can understand more, also I think I might not have access to everything I am trying to change. I used only easy drag and drop type of web designing. 

Hey @Bia welcome to the forum.

I might be wrong but to me it sounds like you still have a wrong assumption what ProcessWire is and how it works. ProcessWire is a development tool to build websites or anything similar. You can not only build websites with it but also intranet applications, backends for single page applications, etc... That means whoever built your website did it THEIR way. Nobody else can know how the website that you are looking at works under the hood.

That means if you really want/need to change anything on your website there is a 99% chance that you need to change some code for this.

That also means you need access to the files of your website.

That also means that you might need to understand how your website is deployed to the server. Your developer might have just copied all files to your server. But he/she might have setup an automated deployment pipeline.

It also means that it would be wise to first test all your changes locally before you push them to production. Otherwise you risk to break your site and then it might be down until someone can fix it. If you don't have someone for that at hand you risk to have a very bad time with some very uncomfortable questions 😉 But of course it also depends on the type of website you are working on. If it's not important and does not have lot of traffic this might not be a big deal... Who knows.

I think in your situation it would be the best to find someone experienced to have a look at your project for maybe an hour or two that can explain to you how everything works, how it is setup and what to expect in terms of future maintenance or development and hosting. I'm not talking about how it works in detail but to get the big picture. Then you can decide how to proceed.

If you want me to do that you can write me a PM or request a meeting at https://www.baumrock.com/en/contact/. There are probably cheaper options though. You can also ask for help in the jobs board or, of course you can always ask questions in the forum. It's a friendly community and answers are free, but while usually you don't wait long for answers it would probably not be the quickest way in your case.

2 hours ago, Bia said:

The only thing I need to find now is where is the options from inside the table:

Having said all the above to answer your question: If that form is built in code you'd have to open an IDE and search for the term "Culoare:" or "Colored" or "White" in your codebase. Then you might find the file that is responsible for the dropdown. If you don't find anything in code then it means that your developer used some kind of form builder and the data is stored in the database, not in code.

Hope that helps 🙂 

[Bia]

6 minutes ago, bernhard said:

Hey @Bia welcome to the forum.

I might be wrong but to me it sounds like you still have a wrong assumption what ProcessWire is and how it works. ProcessWire is a development tool to build websites or anything similar. You can not only build websites with it but also intranet applications, backends for single page applications, etc... That means whoever built your website did it THEIR way. Nobody else can know how the website that you are looking at works under the hood.

That means if you really want/need to change anything on your website there is a 99% chance that you need to change some code for this.

That also means you need access to the files of your website.

That also means that you might need to understand how your website is deployed to the server. Your developer might have just copied all files to your server. But he/she might have setup an automated deployment pipeline.

It also means that it would be wise to first test all your changes locally before you push them to production. Otherwise you risk to break your site and then it might be down until someone can fix it. If you don't have someone for that at hand you risk to have a very bad time with some very uncomfortable questions 😉 But of course it also depends on the type of website you are working on. If it's not important and does not have lot of traffic this might not be a big deal... Who knows.

I think in your situation it would be the best to find someone experienced to have a look at your project for maybe an hour or two that can explain to you how everything works, how it is setup and what to expect in terms of future maintenance or development and hosting. I'm not talking about how it works in detail but to get the big picture. Then you can decide how to proceed.

If you want me to do that you can write me a PM or request a meeting at https://www.baumrock.com/en/contact/. There are probably cheaper options though. You can also ask for help in the jobs board or, of course you can always ask questions in the forum. It's a friendly community and answers are free, but while usually you don't wait long for answers it would probably not be the quickest way in your case.

Having said all the above to answer your question: If that form is built in code you'd have to open an IDE and search for the term "Culoare:" or "Colored" or "White" in your codebase. Then you might find the file that is responsible for the dropdown. If you don't find anything in code then it means that your developer used some kind of form builder and the data is stored in the database, not in code.

Hope that helps 🙂 

Great, thanks. I am ok, I can manage this

[virtualgadjo]

Hi,

just a few words 'd add to @bernhard great answer

the first thing i do when dealing with a pw website i've not done or done so long ago ican't remenber everything... old damaged brain of mine... 😄

try and find in the tree the pages where thie form appears, when you find it/them, edit one, heve a look at the parameters tab, and find the template, then go to the emplate in the config menu and try and find the field used to build this element and then... go to this field in the config menu, if it's built using a pw field you'll probably find the solution in the  details or input tabs
if the field is not in the pw template in the admin, it's built "manually" in the template php file, in this case, that's where you'll have to find where and how

in any case i can't plus enough @bernhard's advice, work and play locally, all the more if you're dealing with php files but well, i guess pw user not being wp ones, it may go without saying 😄

have a nice day