ProcessWire Weekly #286

Latest core updates: ProcessWire 3.0.144

The latest version of the dev branch, ProcessWire 3.0.144, was introduced by Ryan via a forum post this week. A more in-depth blog post is planned (hopefully for next week), but in the meantime here's a summary of what's new in this release:

• UI improvements to the "overrides" tab in field edit.
  Instead of just a static list of templates with overrides, you can now actually click the name of the template to modify that particular override. Additionally changes are now rendered as a visual diff instead of just the default and overridden values side by side.
• The ability to enable more settings to be overridden per template.
  Adding more properties to the list of overrides has been possible for a while now, but only if you had the advanced mode enabled. Since there have been no issues with this feature, it's now available without advanced mode as well – though there is also a disclaimer explaining that this may not always work as expected.
• Version 3.0.144 adds a new Inputfields JavaScript API.
  The intention of this feature is to make interfacing with Inputfields via JavaScript more streamlined and consistent. The API is already used by the core, but it's still a work in progress, with more features to be added later.

Other changes included in this release include a simple diff tool added to WireTextTools (this is what made the "changes" diff in field overrides possible in the first place), the option to render checkbox fields without a label, and support for defining CKEditor config settings case-by-case using data attributes.

Finally, an update to the ability to merge duplicate log entries, as introduced in 3.0.143 last week: this feature is now disabled by default. While it can be tremendously helpful in some situations, there are also cases where keeping those duplicate rows is actually preferable, and thus we felt that this likely makes more sense as an opt-in feature.

You can find more details regarding this week's core updates from the weekly update by Ryan at the support forum, so be sure to check it out. In case you have any comments or questions, feel free to post them at the support forum as well Thanks!

Weekly forum highlights, tutorials, and other online resources

Here's a list of support forum highlights and other useful and/or interesting resources. This week we've actually got a kind of a theme here, and that is sharing some helpful code snippets that we've come across lately.

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!

• First of all, here are a couple of hooks for adding icons into admin menus and the Page List. They can be used to modify default icons of Process modules, or adding custom icons into the page tree. Shared on the support forum by Robin Sallis.
• Our second code snippet is a really simple AJAX API concept based on a custom template and a single Page, useful for passing data from backend to frontend, or vice versa. This one was shared by Horst Nogajski.
• Next up we've got another hook, this time for hiding uneditable Pages from the page tree. This is the updated and streamlined version by Bernhard Baumrock; original solution is a bit more verbose, and was shared by Orkun.
• Here's a code snippet for comparing the modify dates of images generated by Croppable Image 3, and then serving the one that was modified most recently. This snippet was shared by iipa.
• Last but not least we've got something that is a bit more than just a snippet: a mini-tutorial from Jens Martsch for integrating Vue.js into ProcessWire module. Nice one – thanks to Jens for sharing this!

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: Youbility Software

Our latest site of the week belongs to the German software development agency Youbility.

Youbility is a software company that offers tailor-made solutions for websites, online shops, and apps with focus on usability. Their services range from the deeply technical topics, including the development of apps and CMS powered websites, to more end-user-centric areas such as usability, A/B testing, and conversion optimization.

The website of Youbility is a curious one, and probably on the more artistic side of the sites of the week that we've featured so far. That being said, the site is also easy to follow, and provides plenty of visual clues as for navigating it and figuring out where to find just the content you're looking for. The overall design is bold and interesting, and feels like a great fit for a company such as Youbility

The front-end of the Youbility website has the characteristics of the Bootstrap front-end framework, and the performance of the site is being boosted using the commercial caching and optimization module ProCache. The site is properly multi-lingual (German, English, and Spanish), and from a technical SEO point of makes extensive use of various metadata features, such as JSON+LD and OpenGraph tags.

Big thanks to Youbility for trusting ProcessWire as the platform for their own website, and sharing your site with us! For anyone interested, it appears that Youbility currently has a few open positions; in case you'd like to work on software projects and happen to be based near Dresden, Germany, be sure to check out their jobs page for more details.

Stay tuned for our next issue

That's all for the 286th issue of ProcessWire Weekly. We'll be back with more news, updates, and content Saturday, 9th of November. 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!