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ExpressionEngine Pros Forum

Greetings!  We are happy to finally give our Pro Network members a place they can call their own, to speak freely about the aspects of running a business using ExpressionEngine, and to simply connect with one another.  Consider it a small step toward what Rick referred to as “invest[ing] in our community and expand[ing] our network into a cohesive, connected, and capable ecosystem”.

We hope you find this private, Professionals Network members only, forum invaluable for sharing...

Dynamic Styles in JavaScript

Apologies, this is a rather long one, but it is a bit juicy.

Last Tuesday, I was having a bit of a slow work day.  You know how it is when the neurons are only firing at about 50% capacity and you start eyeing your DVD collection trying to decide if you should cut your losses by watching a movie.   Unfortunately, the cruel NetFlix gods had not delivered anything fresh and inviting, so I started playing around in JavaScript.   I lead a sad sad life, people.

What really sparked my...

Tweet TwEEt

I’m sure if Mr. Wilson creates a Twitter ExpressionEngine add-on, he would name it TwEEt, so I will not step on his established naming convention.  Some recent reactivity to a thread about Twitter led me to go ahead and make a plugin for fetching and displaying Twitter timelines today.  I’m really rather surprised that no 3rd party developers had already done so.

Twitter Timeline displays Twitter status messages from either the public, a user’s, or a user’s “friends” timeline, and in...

Behind the Curtain Part II

I have intimated before that from my time doing support for ExpressionEngine that I regularly noticed users not taking advantage of some of the simplest of features of ExpressionEngine.  In the Jambor-ee interview for example, I said that my “favorite” feature is the oft-unused custom status feature.  I find them to be simple and straightforward ways of adding metadata to an entry either for establishing a workflow, or as another efficient way for the weblog entries tag to control...

Recently Updated Sites Returns

Just a quick note to let people know that we’ve implemented the Recently Updated Sites in the Showcase section. This has been much requested since the redesign and we’re happy to bring it back. To have your site appear on the list, please follow the Pinging ExpressionEngine.com instructions in the User Guide. Note that pinging ExpressionEngine.com requires a license number (sorry Core users).

The Updated section uses Snap.com’s link preview service so you can see a screen cap of a...

ExpressionEngine Wookiees

While cruising around at the Jambor-ee site yesterday, I noticed that in the right column they had the text “Are you looking for an EE Jedi?” with an image linking to Erskine Design beneath it.  So, I simply have to ask.  If Simon “Colly” Collison is an EE Jedi, then what does that make me?  Surely not Yoda.  A bit too young.  A bit too tall.  Derek Jones commented that with certain grooming habits in my repertoire that perhaps I am an EE Wookiee?  Mull on that, my feisty...

Behind the Curtain - Part I

Here is my first contribution to what will be a short series of entries revealing some of the inner workings of how we are using ExpressionEngine on the EllisLab family of sites.  Today’s example wasn’t possible prior to 1.5 without the use of PHP or a plugin, and now in addition to being a standard feature, is also extremely efficient.  If you haven’t guessed, I’m talking about embed variables.

The ExpressionEngine site has multiple navigation menus on a given page: the main tabs and...