Panel sidebar page widgets in the blueprint. THE solution?

Kirby 2 Suggestions 💡
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Panel sidebar widgets has been discussed before but there has been no clear solution to how it should be done. Here is an idea of how…

Blueprint

title: Projects
fields:
  title:
    label: Title
    type: text
widgets
  page_settings:
    label: Page settings
    type: page_settings
  my_custom_widget:
    label: My custom widget
    type: my_custom_widget
  pages:
    label: Pages
    type: pages
  files:
    label: Files
    type: files
  • page_settings, pages and files are Kirby built in widgets.
  • my_custom_widget is my own widget that I’ve placed between them.

Fallback

If widgets does not exists in the blueprint, fallback to the built in page widgets. It makes it a non breaking feature.

If labels are not added to built in page widgets, use the built in ones.

To register the widget it could be done kind of like this:

$kirby->set('page::widget', 'my_custom_widget', __DIR__ . '/page-widgets/my_custom_widget');

I’m not sure about the name but see it as an idea.

Why blueprint for page widgets

  • The panel page uses a blueprint for all the fields so why not for page widgets as well.
  • Sorting is a breeze within a blueprint (move text around).
  • The blueprint already exists so there is no need to invent something new.
  • When using the same blueprint file for the fields and page widgets, everything in that panel page is controlled by this blueprint.
  • Probably easy for the crew to build as most of the work is already done, with blueprint parsing ect.
  • It’s a non breaking feature. If the blueprint is used for older Kirby versions it will just ignore the widgets part.
  • If I remember correctly blueprints have support for multiple languages as well?

Isn’t this THE perfect solution to the problem? It feels like I nailed it! :smiley:

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Jens, I think you actually really nailed it. This is bloody brilliant. I will need to think about it a bit more, but it actually solves quite a lot of issues. I’m also not entirely sure about the naming, but that’s really just a small detail. @lukasbestle and @texnixe should also have a look at it.

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I would really love this feature!
Is this still being developed?

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Kirby 3 will come with a different philosophy that will make this superfluous. If you are curious:

https://getkirby.com/next

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Ah cool!

What’s the timeline for the new release?
Months or years?

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@Willem: Kirby 3.0, any release date?

There’s already quite some stuff to play with for K-Next supporters…