Posts by JordinB

    What is the name of your shared region ? 'Home Link DE' ? and the template it uses has a bunch of links ?


    if thats the case and you only want to pull out one of those links by id you can filter the region with perch_content_custom().


    Code
    1. perch_content_custom('Home Link DE', [
    2.     'filter' => 'id',
    3.     'match' => 'eq',
    4.     'value' => 'home-link-de',
    5. ]);



    I get the impression you're looking to create a nav menu based for specific languages ? I think there may be simpler solutions for you if this is the case.

    I’m not sure perch has ever been considered “feature complete”. Seems to me they’ve always rolled out new functionality pretty much whenever and not tied to a specific major version.

    I think regular perch should be limited somewhat to make the switch to runway more of a jump in features. For me I prefer runway because of the routing and it not creating physical pages on the server, but this isn’t necessarily understood or seen by lower tech users.


    For 1 shop should not be installable on regular perch in my option. And like others have said you should be paying extra to install shop in the first place.


    Secondly I thing regular perch should be seen as a gateway to runway. You need a small 1 pager or simple multi page site with 1 level of navigation and a contact form, you can use regular perch... anything else you need runway.


    for pricing I really think they should consider a regular subscription model. (A reasonable price per year) The idea of “you only need to pay if you want to update” is odd to me. I don’t see enough new features coming out to warrant it and makes me feel as if I would be paying to fix bugs. Also it’s been seen on the forum countless times how many people just don’t update the software so I seriously question the viability of that model in the first place.


    I’ve found that one of the big advantages with perch is the sites longevity. They just last longer being influenced less by the huge number of required 3rd party themes and plugins required by other CMS’s (I’m looking at you WordPress).

    if this is the case a yearly subscription would clearly bring in more revenue. It would also get clients thinking more about their sites in a regular basis maybe discovering new updates and features as the come out.

    Or you can default them to pending status, create an app that tracks member validation, sends an email with unique hash linked to the member. When the user clicks the link they get validated and the pending status removed.

    I’ve found the key to a multilingual site with perch no matter if you go branched or duplicate region based is making sure that the very first thing you do is detect the language and set a perch system variable for the language so that it can be referenced in templates:

    Code
    1. PerchSystem::set_var(‘lang’,$lang);

    with this you can reference the current language pretty much everywhere you need either with :

    Code
    1. PerchSystem::get_var(‘lang’);
    2. // or in templates:
    3. <perch:content id=“lang” type=“hidden” />
    4. // or template conditionals
    5. <perch:if id=”lang” match=“eq” value=“en” >Do something for English</perch:if>

    note the type hidden in templates or it will show in the CMS content form

    Totally agree with ryan . I don’t care when V4 is coming, that it must it’s initial target. But I’d really like to know that it’s being worked on still. Maybe some tweets with interesting screen shots or something just to peek interest. If your product has zero communication over the year it just looks stagnant and is a much harder sell.

    I wonder if the so called subscription (but isn’t a subscription ) model will actually sustain development any more than the current model. If you don’t actually have to pay yearly and the vast majority of people don’t seem to actually update regularly what incentive do they have to fork out the extra to update? I would bet it wouldn’t make a huge increase in revenues.


    If you create a monthly(yearly ... whatever) subscription plan for those larger agencies, is that really going to bring in more than the regular licenses themselves? I think it would need to be a decent amount per month to make it more profitable.


    I’d like to see someone (smarter than I am) put together some quick numbers to forcast revenue over the short, mid and long term vs maintaining the standard model.

    I was working on a replacement Gallery app but then decided to shut down dev until more info became available about how apps for v4 are supposed to work. Not knowing what’s going on with v4 has seriously hindered and motivation to move forward with perch development. Considering v4 was supposed to drop last summer I didn’t want to continue developing for v3... so now I just don’t know what to do.

    Just released our new Cognetif website last night : https://cognetif.com specifically designed for mobile and running on Runway.


    also last week we release the latest version of the website of my oldest client: https://lesfleursdejasmine.com they’ve been with me for over 10 years, and their first site was a static html that was converted to regular Perch a few years ago. Now they’re up on runway with this new version. Next is to get them to take some better photos of their work so we can really showcase their flowers.

    does dreamweaver not do a find/replace within all files of a path ? Its been forever since i've used DW. Modern IDE's will allow to do that. ;-D