I already posted a teaser on Wednesday about the upcoming beta for 2.3.0 on Twitter and I’m glad that I can now finally publish it \o/ It’s another big step ahead and I can’t wait to hear what you think about it. We are actively looking for feedback and testers who throw this at their existing sites (on a local machine, please) to report all sorts of bugs before the final release. Please use this thread for your comments and the Github issues for bug reports. We prepared a quite massive changelog for you to check out all the new stuff and we’ve also prepared a pretty fancy new “Upcoming…” page, which sums up everything for you: https://getkirby.com/upcoming You will also find the first docs for the upcoming version on there. We overhauled the docs system in the background, to be able from now on, to mark changes with version numbers and give you a better overview what has changed and when. We really hope you like it!!

Trying the 2.3 beta on my personal site (no panel, blog-like, ten templates, a few tricks, search, Atom feed forked from the Feed Plugins), and so far nothing breaks. :slight_smile: I’ve started working on a Twig plugin: [image] Twig plugin (Kirby 2.3+) Plugins So I started working a plugin which enables working with Twig templates. It requires Kirby’s 2.3.0 beta. Code and documentation here: Compatibility Kirby’s chaining API for pages etc. is quite compatible with Twig Page Models and Controllers should be fully compatible (haven’t checked yet but no reason why it wouldn’t work) Helper functions can be exposed to the templates (e.g. {{ snippet('nav') }}) but we need to list them explicitly, which I’m a bit reluctant to do but hey. (Update: so … Overriding components seems to be a useful approach but it’s completely undocumented and I had to spend my afternoon reading Kirby’s source code, which is instructive but maybe not all plugin developers should have to do it, I don’t know. Some thoughts on what could be documented on this side?

Nice! Here are my first impressions… Thumbnail API I was not a big fan of it from the start. It was not getting better because of the issues I’ve got. Maybe I will love it later but now, not so much. Kirby 2.3 - Thumbs in other language does not generate Kirby 2.3 - Thumbnail 404 Kirby 2.3 - Real strange thumbnail problem What I will probably love I will probably use these things all the time (have not tested all of them yet): New Panel Image Field New Plugin registry Blueprint options Global site controller Custom pages::$methods Custom page::$methods Fieldoptions from another field? Why? Get fieldoptions from another field? Why not just use blueprint global field definitions? It’s probably not a bad feature. I just don’t fully understand it. Upcoming docs Now the url for the docs summery is: https://getkirby.com/upcoming It’s great today. When it’s released, what will happend to that url? Maybe have something like below? https://getkirby.com/2.3 https://getkirby.com/2.4 https://getkirby.com/2.5 Then we could in the future go back to see what happended in that version. Summery Some of the things I’ve been waiting for are in this version, so I’m really looking forward to try it out. However, the new Thumb API is making trouble for me. If that will work it’s probably going to be an amazing release!

[image] jenstornell: Get fieldoptions from another field? Why not just use blueprint global field definitions? Not from another field definition, but from another field on another page (content). [image] jenstornell: https://getkirby.com/upcoming It’s great today. When it’s released, what will happend to that url? There’s always the changelog, where all changes are listed for all previous versions.

Is there a place I can read up about “components” and “registry” and “plugins”? They all sound very interesting, but are a bit abstract to me. Thanks!

We have not managed to update the docs yet, I’m afraid, so currently, there’s only the source code to the rescue and an example plugin file: Plugin registry: https://gist.github.com/bastianallgeier/38f895b32b71e8e2b2f3844e38df5489 For the component architecture, you can have a look at the Twig plugin by @fvsch: Twig plugin (Kirby 2.3+) as an example.

Plugin set registry information can be found here as well: [image] Register plugin with set? Questions 🤔 This is a gist about register plugin stuff with set. I don’t understand how to use it. Let’s say I have this in my plugin: /site/plugins/myplugin/myfield/myfield.php /site/plugins/myplugin/myfield2/myfield2.php /site/plugins/myplugin/myplugin.php The first two rows are two fields that needs to be registered and the last is the plugin init file where I want to register the fields. How is that done in this case? Can I do this and it simply “fake” that the fields are in these places, but they a…

It would be great to have documentation on components (not necessarily what each component type should do, but at least what they are and how to register one and what it implies), registry, and while we’re at it Kirby is sorely missing an “How to write plugins” documentation page which explains how it works and perhaps gives some “best practices”. For writing my own component (as a plugin) I had to read Kirby’s source code to figure things out, and pick some information from a handful of gists found via Twitter and this forum. Reading the source was interesting but not really straightforward.

[image] fvsch: “How to write plugins” documentation page which explains how it works and perhaps gives some “best practices”. +1 Yes, please! I know writing docs is a chore, but it pays off…

@fvsch or if you have a Template how to add the Kirby Navigation i hope you know what i mean

The answer to that would be those two steps: Write your menu’s code: https://getkirby.com/docs/solutions/menus Save it as a snippet to reuse it in templates: https://getkirby.com/docs/templates/snippets

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