Hi, I’m helping a friend redesign an online photography magazine, that is currently done in Worpdress. I’m trying to understand if I can use Kirby because is more easy to manage for me as I’m a designer not a developer. The magazine is out every 3 months, and has a very simple structure based on …

As regards the structure, that is no problem at all with Kirby, so that is both a yes for your first and second questions. Instead of having a flat issue structure, it might make sense to put the issues into year folders, as the Panel will slow down if the number of subpages becomes too big. With cu…

Hi texnixe, thanks for your suggestions. I didn’t thought about adding a Year level. That will keep everything more easy as I can have just 4 issue per year. So the final structure could be something like: 2017 Issue 24 Issue 23 Issue 22 Issue 21 2016 Issue 20 Author A - Project Author B - Proj…

No, you don’t need the author as subfolders. I meant, you can either create the authors as users in the Panel or you could set up a separate page “authors” with the author names as subfolders. Then in each project, you can have a select field for the author. You structure would like you suggested 2…

Hi @texnixe , thanks for your prompt reply. In this case, authors are not people that can access the site: they are photographers that can submit their work to the editorial staff that will publish the work. I prefer to keep them as not kirby users, for security reasons.

In Kirby, you can add users without Panel access. But as I said, that’s just one possibility. If you don’t need the authors for any other purposes, you can just add a field in each project, where you add the author.

Hi texnixe, I’m trying to setup the magazine in this way: content/ 1-archive/ archive.txt 2016/ year.txt 24-issue/ issue.txt 1-name-project/ project.txt 001.jpg …

No, you don’t necessarily need a year.yml blueprint. If your text file is called year.txt and the corresponding blueprint does not exist, Kirby falls back to the default.yml file, which should be alright for such a container page. Although it might be useful to set some subpage setting, e.g. the all…

SOLVED: <?php foreach(page('archive')->children()->children()->visible()->sortBy('sort', 'desc') as $year): ?> – Hi @texnixe , I’ve got the archive page :slight_smile: Apart the style that is broken, how can I get the page ordered from the latest to the newest? (25 -> 1) This is the snippet: <u…

You should be able to reverse the order of the issues with the flip() method: <ul class="teaser cf"> <?php foreach(page('archive')->grandChildren()->visible()->flip() as $year): ?> <li> <h3><a href="<?php echo $year->url() ?>">#<?php echo $year->number()->html() ?> <?php echo $year->title(…

Hi @texnixe , just to tell you that in half day, I setup kirbyCMS in order to migrate the magazine :wink: I spent 3 days last week in order to do the same thing in wordpress and no way to do what I want. I’m falling in love with Kirby :slight_smile: Thanks for your suggestions.

How to setup Use Kirby for a very large photography magazine

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