Upgrading to Kirby 3: Creating a Panel - Help needed

Kirby 3
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I am at a bit of a loss trying to upgrade my site from 2 to 3. The site works, but I simply do not understand the new Panel system.

I had a simple portfolio site under Kirby 2. There are pages, and there are ‘works’ which were subpages of the ‘work’ page, defined by their own yml files. That was it.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to recreate the (extremely simple!) panel layout I had under Kirby 2. I know I need to make a new site.yml but the terminology now used doesn’t seem to have any relation to the previous version. I can’t get all of the pages to appear in a pages section, and I can’t figure out how to even display the ‘work’ pages in the panel. I’m stuck at Square One.

I’ve read a lot of posts here and tried to understand the documentation. I’ve used Kirby 2 for ages, and plenty of other systems, but is there a tutorial somewhere that might help? Anything than just pointing to lots of new documentation that doesn’t explain how this relates to existing sites.

Thank you for any help.

2

Even better - are there any sample blueprints which would mimic the Kirby 2 panel in Kirby 3? This seems like something quite obvious that somebody would have made?

3

I would suggest maybe watching some of the Videos on the youtube channel, like this one

Theres a few other videos on the channel that i think would be useful like this one

That might help to clear things up for you.

4

Thank you. Is there anywhere this is written down, rather than in video form?

5

There’s a lot of documentation about blueprints, but there is no such thing as a Kirby 2 to Kirby 3 comparison. What we stopped documenting after all these years but still exists is the so called presets, which sort of mimicked a typical Kirby 2 setup. They are still documented in the Kirby 3.5 archive (Presets | Kirby CMS)

Other than that:

The site.yml blueprint is where you usually start when you enter the Panel.

Another good starting point is the Starterkit.