What plugins do you miss?

[distantnative]

@jenstornell

My plugin is a field to be used in site (panel options). It looks like you have taken a different approach, maybe a better one.

Indeed, I used this one as a case study for a plugin’s custom panel view (and it worked!). You do not need to add anything to a blueprint as with fields. Only I could not yet find a way to add a button to the dropdown menu and hence need to rely on widgets as buttons/ways to the panel view. I used it for the new config panel view of the panelBar.

@jenstornell

Cache 300 nested pages with 10 images on each page is 3000 images scatterd through folder. Could it be slow? It needs to search for all the files in all the pages on every refresh. I was about to create a kind of an index using hooks when a file was changed or a page was renamed/deleted. Do you see the need for a cache or is it fast enough?

There would definitely be the need for something like this. Calling $site->index()->files() gets slow quite easily, with much less pages and files then you mention.

@jenstornell

Sorting. You sort by page which is great as a default. It could also make sense to sort by filename and modified. Filename is good when want to find duplicates of images visually (even if there are other tools for that as well). Modified is good to see which images was added recently. What do you think about a sorting feature?

Reasonable ideas, in my view. Good thing with this solution: you get your custom panel view, which really is like a blank slate in the panel. You can do pretty much anything you want. Include custom CSS, JS…

Given my limited time, I am not sure if I will manage to work on any of these features. Priority lies on my plugins. But of course I would be happy to see PRs. I think this proof of concept shows in a quite simple way how to create and use such a custom panel view (workaround, since it is not really easily supported, but this workaround works pretty well so far).