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First Impressions

For December we are planning on two ExpressionEngine 2.0 updates. The first is this very post. The second will be around Dec. 19, give or take a couple days.

One of our goals for 2.0 is to change the first impression people have with ExpressionEngine. Right now there is a disconnect with how people hear about EE and what they see when they first experience it.

We do zero advertising so when someone hears about EE its because someone they trust told them, they’ve read a review, or...

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ExpressionEngine 2.0 Delayed

All summer we’ve been focused on our goal of first getting the developer preview of EE 2.0 released, then the public version.  The good news is that the majority of our work is done.  We’ve had a very productive summer and accomplished a lot.  Most of the major systems have been completed, and the CodeIgniter integration is functioning very well. 

Unfortunately, there still remain enough loose ends and details to make a summer release impossible.  We’re close, but as the saying goes,...

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File Manager Preview

It’s been awhile since our last news update on ExpressionEngine 2.0, so I thought I’d take a brief moment and share with you an early draft of the File Manager area of the new control panel.  As usual, this comes with the usual disclaimers about it being a work in progress, that some features you see now might change dramatically before release, etc.  So enjoy the brief screencast giving a quick rundown of some new interaction and capabilities that the File Manager in ExpressionEngine...

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ExpressionEngine 2.0: fully CodeIgnited!

At South by Southwest during our “ExpressionEngine 2.0 sneak preview” I got a chance to reveal some big news about the future of ExpressionEngine that I wanted to explore in some more detail here for anyone who wasn’t able to attend.

ExpressionEngine 2.0 is built on CodeIgniter.

CodeIgniter is our Open Source PHP based framework.  You can learn more at CodeIgniter.com, but in a nutshell it’s the toolkit that many powerful applications are built on, and now we can add...

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ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Preview

At SXSW in Austin last week (March 8th) we revealed details about ExpressionEngine 2.0, our exciting upcoming new version.  For those of you who were not able to attend, we have created a page that shows a screencast of the new control panel, and describes some of the changes taking place:

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Preview

We hope you are as excited about the changes as we are!