ProcessWire Weekly #136

Latest core updates: ProcessWire 3.0.45

In his latest post at the processwire.com blog Ryan introduces ProcessWire 3.0.45. This version includes some smaller fixes and tweaks along with some pretty major upgrades to various core features:

• Major upgrades to the configuration of Page fields – definitely something you don't want to miss, so remember to check out Ryan's post for more details!

• Various scalability updates to PageTable and Repeater fields (avoid caching some content in large scale use) and also Page objects (load the parent page only if it's specifically requested, otherwise just fetch the parent page's ID)

• Various fixes and improvements to both the hooks system (the WireHooks class) and selector string handling (the Selectors::stringHasSelector() method)

• Better handling of inline scripts for InputfieldRepeater and Lister (GitHub request)

• Improvements to the “custom (field=value)” searches in InputfieldSelector, Lister, and ListerPro

• Support for filtering page field values load-time via $page->page_field("selector")

• Built-in region feature now supports automatic prepend or append mode, enabled by calling region(++name, ' ') or region('name++', ' '), after which any calls for that particular region will automatically prepend or append content

For more details about the latest core updates, particularly the Page field configuration updates, don't forget to check out Ryan's latest blog post at processwire.com. This week Ryan has some pretty neat API tricks to showcase in his post too. Thanks!

New module by Ben Byford: MarkInPageTree

MarkInPageTree is a brand new module by Ben Byford and does pretty much what the name suggests: it adds an icon before the names of pages that match a selector defined in module settings. That's it, really: about it. This is a simple module that does just one thing, but does it well.

The configuration options available for this module include – obviously – a selector for matching pages, and an icon inputfield for selecting the icon that should be applied before the names of matching pages.

You can grab this module directly from GitHub, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to post them at the dedicated support forum thread. Big thanks to Ben for sharing this module with us!

Weekly forum highlights, tutorials, and other online resources

It's been a while since we last included a list of ProcessWire resources, so here we go again. As always please let us know if there's anything important we've missed so that we can include it in one of our future issues.

• PW-Test is a new and pretty amazing command line tool for ProcessWire. It's not really a test suite itself – rather it makes running any existing test suites against multiple versions of ProcessWire a breeze.
• Warum das CMS Processwire eine echte Alternative zu Wordpress ist is a recent article for t3n magazine, authored by none other than Francesco Schwarz. Note: this article is in German, so better get Google Translate ready.
• Here's another non-English article, only this time in Finnish: Julkaisujärjestelmillä on eroja is a blog post written in the form of a series of interview type questions for two developers working at Avoine.
• In case you missed this earlier, the results of CMS Critic Awards have been around for a while now and ProcessWire was chosen as the Best Small Business CMS 2016. While we sincerely believe that ProcessWire is the best CMS out there for all kinds and sizes of projects, we're not turning this award down either ;)
• Ever heard someone say that we have a pretty active community? Well, here's a fun fact: we've got more than 14.000 topics at our support forum already.. and to quote cstevensjr, the really amazing thing is that the majority of those posts are actual quality content.

If you're interested in ProcessWire news, discussions, and updates, there's always something going on at the support forum. Since we're only able to include a tiny selection of all that in our weekly updates, head down to the forum for more.

Site of the week: Ateliers Fromagers

Our latest site of the week is Les Ateliers Fromagers, a site about workshops for learning how to make your own, homemade cheese. The workshops are held at Montreal and Quebec city, and as far as we can tell – we're not really experts on this particular topic – they cover just about all sorts of cheese you can think of.

For the most part this is a one-page website, with the exception of some areas, such as the store and legal information page. Content is available in two languages: English and French. While the products themselves are featured on the local site, for the shopping experience this site makes use of Snipcart – a shopping cart you can subscribe to and add to just about any site with little effort.

In addition to the Snipcart integration mentioned above, some other technical highlights include the use of AIOM+ to minify and combine resources, Piwik for on-site analytics purposes, Bootstrap front-end framework for the layout, and tawk.to as a contacts form and chat service.

Big thanks to Sylvain Puccini for creating and sharing this wonderful site – we're really happy to have it in our sites directory and as our site of the week in this issue of ProcessWire Weekly!

Stay tuned for our next issue

That's it for the 136th issue of ProcessWire Weekly, thanks for reading! We'll be back with more content next Saturday, 24th of December – or, in other words, the Christmas Eve. As always, ProcessWire newsletter subscribers will get our updates a few days later.

Thanks for staying with us, once again. Hope you've had a great and productive week, and don't forget to check out the ProcessWire forums for more interesting topics. Until next week, happy hacking with ProcessWire!