Instant page factory

Short-form pages in seconds

Creating pages in the Panel usually means: Click the Add button above a pages section, fill in a title and optionally customize the slug, land on the draft page, then start editing. That’s perfect for long-form content, but a tad cumbersome for content like:

• Short blog notes
• Status updates
• Bookmarks / link collections
• Event announcements
• Short reviews
• …

For these content types, turn the creation dialog itself into a mini “page factory”.

Enter the create blueprint option

The create option in page blueprints lets you:

• Define additional fields directly in the creation dialog
• Optionally skip adding a title and/or slug
• Skip the redirect after creation
• Automatically publish the page

Here is an example for a bookmark type of page as child of a bookmarks parent:

title: Bookmark

create:
  title: "{{ page.date.toDate('Y-m-d }}" # create title from date
  slug: "{{ page.link.slug }}"           # create slug from link
  status: listed                         # publish directly
  redirect: false                        # stay where you are
  fields:
    - date
    - link
    - summary 


fields:
  date:
    type: date
    default: now
    time: true
  link:
    type: url
  summary:
    type: textarea

Since the textarea field is not supported in the create dialog by default, we need to add it to the allowed fields in our main index.php

<?php

use Kirby\Panel\PageCreateDialog;

require 'kirby/bootstrap.php';

Kirby\Panel\PageCreateDialog::$fieldTypes[] = 'textarea' // textarea field added

echo (new Kirby)->render();

Now the Add button opens a compact dialog with exactly the fields you need. On submit, the page is created and published, and you can start creating the next page. Pretty fast, isn't it?

Bonus: Sidebar menu item

To make the experience even faster and smoother, add a custom Panel menu item that opens the creation dialog directly:

In your config.php, add:

<?php
return [
    // …other settings
    'panel' => [
        'menu' => [
            'site',
            'users',
            // …
            'bookmarks' => [
                'icon'  => 'pen',
                'label' => 'New bookmark',
                'link'  => 'dialogs/pages/create?parent=pages/bookmarks&template=bookmark',
            ],
        ]
    ]
];

This gives you a one-click entry point in the sidebar from everywhere without having to navigate the Panel.