Closing the chapter on ExpressionEngine
May 13. 26 commentsA reflection on ExpressionEngine and the 52 add-ons I built over a decade of agency work, prompted by Ryan Masuga's LinkedIn post marking the 16th anniversary of devot:ee.
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The story of how nathanpitman.com — a personal blog that went dark when its host shut down — was recovered from the Wayback Machine and rebuilt with Astro.
Design & Contract Interiors
Jan 21. 14Pretty pleased with this one, we just launched a lovely little site at Nine Four for our client Design & Contract Interiors. Mobile first, responsive, clean...
Must have add-ons for any new #eecms project
Aug 01. 12It never ceases to amaze me how many amazing add-ons there are for ExpressionEngine, so many in fact that I often forget about some of the best ‘must haves’...
A frank list of usability frustrations with ExpressionEngine 2 from daily professional use.
Sometimes it’s desirable to hide content on your website from users a specified date. With ExpressionEngine we already have built in functionality to do...
I struck upon a wonderful little idea which I’ve implemented in a simple plug-in I’m writing for a project I’m currently working on.., add a...
ExpressionEngine Extension: Push to FoxyCart
Mar 04. 10Announcing a custom ExpressionEngine extension for integrating with FoxyCart e-commerce.
Migrating from TXP to EE - Conclusion
Mar 29. 09Ok, so steps 1 through 5 pretty much got us to a conclusion but there was one little fact that really had me bugged about the migration. I wanted to persist...
Having had a play with the wonderful ExpressionEngine Field Frame extension which Brandon Kelly has authored I felt inclined to port my UK Counties Select...
ExpressionEngine Plug-in: US States Select
Jan 15. 09This is just a variation of my UK Counties Select plug-in for ExpressionEngine which as you might expect, returns a list of US states in the drop down...
ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Add VAT
Jan 08. 09I’ve just written a new ExpressionEngine plug-in called ‘Add VAT‘. This plug-in takes any numeric value and returns the value plus VAT. You also have to...
ExpressionEngine Plug-in: UK Counties Select
Oct 24. 08Another day, another little ExpressionEngine Plug-in. I needed to return a list of UK counties in a standalone entry form. I could have simply flicked on...
Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 5
Oct 16. 08Step 5: setting up links and finishing touches after migrating from Textpattern to ExpressionEngine.
Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 4
Oct 04. 08Step 4: fixing up content after the Textpattern-to-ExpressionEngine migration.
Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 3
Sep 27. 08Step 3: importing Textpattern articles into ExpressionEngine.
Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 2
Sep 26. 08Step 2: exporting data from Textpattern in preparation for import into ExpressionEngine.
I have made a cast iron decision. I am migrating (this) my personal blog from Textpattern to ExpressionEngine. I thought others might find it useful if I...
Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 1
Sep 22. 08Step 1 of a series documenting migration from Textpattern to ExpressionEngine — setting up EE.
While working on a project recently I noted that ExpressionEngine uses a ‘JavaScript:history.go(-1)’ within the ‘User Message’ templates to allow you to...
Building websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6
Aug 17. 08This week I had a rather nice email from a lady called Alice at Packt Publishing here in the UK. Packt are a publishing company specialising in IT focused...
ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Encode/Decode
Jul 22. 08Every time I come up against something which I once would have resorted to PHP to solve, I end up writing a little plug-in these days instead. It just feels...
ExpressionEngine Mug!
Jul 17. 08A white box arrived today containing an ‘“ExpressionEngine Mug”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathanpitman/2678386600/’ from the good folks at EllisLab as a...
The Solspace Tag Module is a fantastic addition to ExpressionEngine but it lacks the option to ‘disable’ tags for certain weblogs (sections). Not to fear,...
ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Link Target
Jul 09. 08Not sure how useful this ExpressionEngine Plug-in will be to others out there but we’re using it here at Nine Four on the Wired In website to link from an...
ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Member Online?
Jul 08. 08Whilst working on the Wired In website I came up against a little problem. I wanted to be ale to show if a specific user was online or offline, much like...
Why choose ExpressionEngine?
Jul 03. 08The guys over at EllisLab are asking why choose ExpressionEngine? Right off the top of my head, here’s my response…
Don’t get me wrong, I love Expression Engine but sometimes you just come up against a brick wall and the only solution is to either pay someone to write a...
Customer service the right way
Apr 10. 06Well it’s a fair old time since I had such a good customer service experience that I was left visibly ‘gleaming‘. As it happens I just had one this very...
I ❤ ExpressionEngine
Mar 10. 06After my recent rant about having to edit CMS templates via a browser text field I think I have perhaps stumbled across ExpressionEngines best feature yet....