Pete

Perfect thank you!

Hi all, With CKEditor there was a way to have a stylesheet to change the style of things inside the editor. Is there a way of having a CSS file for that in for the TinyMCE fields? I know you can do some of this in the settings, but it's a bit restrictive when you want to use SVG and advanced CSS selectors. I have had a few occasions where clients want to have the styles in the editor match the site exactly and for some lists we've used SVG for list bullets etc and it's just easier to match up with a CSS file.

Ryan - it was great to meet you and Jan in person finally after 12 years 😊 That was a fantastic trip with a great group of people through some really interesting locations. We were pretty lucky with the weather too!

I think for mine what I'll need to do is a diff between the last unaltered source code I have and my code to play "spot the difference" then I can write it in a doc and send it to you. Some were improvements that might be beneficial to all, others were workarounds for very specific things... and others still were files written for you but only for my project so sounds like a bit of a nightmare to update without losing anything (hence why I've been putting it off if I'm honest). I'll need to get it done this month at any rate so I'll let you know. At least when I have the doc I'll also know what to check for on each update.

@kongondo I am still on 008 (well as you know somewhere between 8 and 9 😅) - should I go through 009 to get to 010? I'm thinking probably yes - if it enables me to better understand all the changes with the amount of custom tweaks I have on my site and make sure they all get re-applied.

Sounds and looks fantastic.

Ah man I know what you mean - a long time ago (2012-14 maybe) I was here daily and I probably need to hang around here using the time I normally waste reading the news which is way less healthy for my brain. Or tapping away on other nonsense on my phone for hours.

I think you're right, and some things like Robin's module there are definitely things that could benefit from being in the core as it just makes sense - @ryan please do take a look at this one as it's incredibly useful to visually see how the fields will flow as well as in tabs etc and would be nice if it was in the core too as I don't think it would add much to it but add a lot of benefit to folks who launch sites regularly. This is a bit of a tangent but talking about mental health is less taboo nowadays and I'm sure someone else here will relate - having recently been diagnosed with ADHD I tend to let myself off the hook a bit more now with my forgetfulness. I used to beat myself up about it but the fact is that something needs to be deeply engrained into my day-to-day work to remember it so modules that might help me with setup at the start of a project like TemplateFieldWidths are long forgotten by the end of it ? It's also why I can write PHP and build big projects but cannot hang onto the terminology at all. Like people talk about closures and my brain can rarely remember what "operand" means some days but I can write it all... just the labels on my internal glossary/filing system aren't stuck on very well and keep falling off it feels like. I spent until I was 43 amazed at how people can learn stuff and retain the knowledge so well. I'm very thankful to be pretty good with computers and good enough as a developer that I can do this for a living and live pretty well.

Ah so that's why this all felt so familiar! I remember using that one a while back on a site and then forgot all about it - thanks Robin for that one and to Ryan for improvements to the core field widths.

Ah yes and it's always fun when you migrate from WP to PW or any other ecommerce platform and have a million redirects to do for pointless tags from WP etc ? And even then you have to deal with the fact it used to be a WP site so bots are still always spamming old WP URLs and plugins trying to find a way in. Lots of fun.

Very nice! Only other thing I would add is maybe use hidpi variants on the PNGs too as my monitor is 1.5x normal DPI and they look a little fuzzy and possibly fuzzier still on fancier 4k screens. I enjoyed the honest pricing - it's been a bit of a journey these past few years to realise ecommerce often should start at that price point due to time involved. It's never particularly quick to set up and in my (limited) experience there will always be enough requests for stuff that's not "out of the box" to more than justify it. (Disclaimer: of course, pricing is different around the world but those figures didn't strike me as anything other than sensible).

It's actually sort of on the list for the projects we work on together Ryan, just I think the client is talking to me about it rather than give you another chunk of work to think about. Might be worth us discussing it next week.

So I had to do this one recently - develop a new theme on a busy site so the staff could test it out with their live data and the solution was to add this into site/init.php: if ($user->isLoggedIn() && $user->new_site_toggle == 1) { $config->urls->templates = "/site/tailwind/"; $config->paths->fieldTemplates = dirname(__DIR__) . "/site/tailwind/fields/"; $config->paths->templates = dirname(__DIR__) . $config->urls->tailwind; $modules->AdminThemeUikit->logoURL = 'site/tailwind/images/logo-white.svg'; $config->AdminThemeUikit = [ 'style' => '', 'recompile' => false, 'compress' => true, 'customCssFile' => '/site/assets/admin.css', 'customLessFiles' => ['/site/tailwind/styles/admin.less'], ]; } You might not need all that code but basically there was a checkbox field for certain users called "new_site_toggle" where they could login and toggle the new templates on and off and the template files just lived in /site/tailwind/ . "fieldTemplates" is for RepeaterMatrix template files in case anyone is wondering about that one. The Admin Theme config stuff at the end of my code above was just because I like to customise the colours etc in the admin theme, plus in this case it helped reinforce which version they were currently about to view on the frontend. I think I also added a toggle button and some jQuery to the frontend to make toggling whilst viewing the site a one-click process. Honestly the only problem with this approach was the new theme having different fields for some templates so old stuff had to live alongside new stuff, but as content was being updated all the time and I didn't really have time to do it any other way. In hindsight using some of Bernhard's modules would have helped as I ended up doing far too much dev on the live site instead of syncing changes ?

It doesn't come up all the time for me (depends on the site) but often enough that I agree with others that re-using images on other pages is important. I rarely insert them into the editor - that's my problem. How could we have an image from a different page's single/multi-image field be used in another page's single/multi image field because that's how I would need to use that feature? Maybe next to the upload button have another button to select existing from another page (or media manager - I like that idea) and it's inserted into that field as a reference and can have it's own description, tags etc. Likely others have already talked about this a lot over the years whereas I've just ignored it and duplicated my images quite a few times ? I think though that this is where storing images in folders by page ID would maybe need to be replaced with something else to uncouple them from page IDs on disk, like maybe files/field id/ instead though granted that would be complicated for an existing site with thousands of images already on it. They'd also need to be grouped under the field ID as on a travel website /files/photos (as an example) could have 10k files or a lot more with variations under it easily. Not sure that's actually a problem though - feels like it might have been 10 years ago but maybe it's not now. If you wanted though you could have a subfolder per image ID for that field to store it and all variations neatly which somewhat alleviates the issue.

I'll have a chat with some of the mods about what we do with it as I don't have time to manage it any more and it needs updating - has done for years.