When playing around with the demo on trykirby.com I realized that “links” and for example “gallery” are not working properly (within the blog example). For beginners like me it would be very handy to have a demo where all features are “implented” in very basic way. In the latest video on Youtube blocks and using snippets are explained in more detail. That already helped a little. Why not have a plainkit where all features are wokring on a basic level without any CSS? I think this would be of great help to everyone who has very basic skills like me. I would love to hear your opinion on that.
Can you elaborate more on which features did not work in the demokit? I browsed the blog and did not spot any immediate issues.
The Kirby developers did an excellent job of using the demokit to demonstrate the CMS’s flexibility. They showcased its potential without using overly complex front-end code. While I agree with you that it has not been intended for PHP/HTML/CSS beginners, I still think they hit the sweet spot somewhere in between brutalism and fanciness.
There are many resources available online that teach the basics of webdevelopment.
Maybe try approaching the code for the demokit as the benchmark beyond beginner and learning as much from it as possible.
I agree, the team did a wonderful job. I have never seen such a clean CMS. To further elaborate my observation: try to go to Blog, highlight a some text in a block and make a hyperlink, linking to some random page from the choices you have. Hit “Publish” and look at the result and try clicking on that link. It will not work.
You are right, the problem is that for the demos a subfolder is used and the permalink does not resolve properly in this case. This is a known issue that does not happen in normal settings, where your project uses a normal domain without subfolder.
The demokit is magical. It would be worthwhile at least to me, to have each example within the demokit as separate demokits because they would be a great starting point for so many projects.