Hi,
So following the sudden demise of a certain other Mac-based web publishing app, it looks like my time as an addon developer and support assistant for these past 17 years may be drawing to a close.
As a distraction, I’ve been working with Max Fancourt on updating WebYep CMS. Version 3 is just about ready and brings several improvements; like improved documentation and PHP 8 support.
A couple of WebYep users told me about something called “actions” that used to be available for Freeway. Supposedly a way of getting WebYep CMS into Freeway really easily. Regretfully I never used Freeway, so I’ve not seen this for myself, to know precisely how the WebYep actions looked or worked.
Over the past several months I’ve been having a play with the Xway Betas and have been absolutely loving it. I’m definitely going to be using it for smaller brochure / portfolio style websites I build freelance.
I’ve been able to get some of my own components working perfectly in Xway. However I was wondering whether there are plans for a more feature-rich API that developers might be able to use?
So as an example, when you add a video to a page in Xway, currently the settings in the Box Inspector change to present options like autoplay, controls, loop, muted, plays inline etc.
What I’m envisioning would be the possibility of a user being able to add a WebYep Component to a page, to denote a part of the page that can be edited remotely using WebYep. They would see a select menu (in the Inspector) to choose what type of CMS element to use (e.g. short text, long text, file link or image). A box to set the field name. Maybe a few other parameters too. With these settings being written into the code.
Do you think something like this might be possible in Xway one day? Or something that is feasible already, but I’ve overlooked?
I’d certainly be really happy to work with the Xway community in porting WebYep CMS over and making it available in Xway as a free component or action.
I’ve already been able to build a site in Xway that could be published and edited remotely using WebYep CMS. But it exposes the user to quite a lot of code. Hence my thoughts on whether there was a way to make the configuration more user-friendly. It seems like WebYep CMS + Xway could be a brilliant combination.
Kind regards,
Will.
(Plymouth, England)