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Private Support Beta

The Private Support Beta made its first appearance to the Pro Net two months ago. The response thus far has been fantastic. The main thing we’ve heard from people in the beta are that they love the login-first approach which allows the EllisLab support team instant access to get in and start helping (once it is set up).

The next step for Private Support is to open it up to people outside the Pro Net. As of today, we have 10 spots available.

First, Private Support is intended for...

ExpressionEngine 2.2.2 Released

ExpressionEngine 2.2.2 has been released today.  Version 2.2.2 is a minor update targeting membership sites who use “Manual activation by an administrator” only.  It is not a necessary upgrade for other sites, and the handful of fixes in this release will be included in our next scheduled release targeting all users.

A change in behavior was introduced in 2.2 with respect to the “Pending” member group’s ability to log in to an ExpressionEngine web site.  While template access...

ExpressionEngine Paid Upgrades Go Free

Hi Beautiful EE Community,

We’ve changed the Paid Upgrade policy for all our commercial software. Here is the short version. All “right of point” releases are free. This also impacts our Download Access policy. The new policy is that you’ll always have download access to the latest release of the version you purchased.

You can read more about it on the EllisLab blog.

ExpressionEngine 2.2 is on Schedule

Many of you wanted us to let you know if we are still on target to release ExpressionEngine 2.2 on June 22nd. The answer is yes. We will be releasing 2.2 this Wednesday.

As a teaser, ExpressionEngine 2.2 has a completely rewritten File Manager. The File Manager now has more functionality as part of that rewrite. The dev team continued efforts to tune ExpressionEngine and improve performance.  Additionally, the dev team has added new Config Overrides that were requested and continued...

ExpressionEngine 2.2, Add-on Developer Preview

I have had discussions with many of you (add-on developers) over the last couple of months and one of the things that you have asked for is a clear path to getting preview copies of ExpressionEngine so that you can adjust your add-ons prior to a major release.

This year we want to have an official Developer Program, but while we work that out we want to make sure everyone that needs it has access to a Developer Preview, starting immediately with EE 2.2.

This is specifically for EE...

Renaming the CodeShare Corner to Community Help

Hello to our wonderful community.  It has been too long since I wrote.

The community that has sprung up around EllisLab is, in a word, inspiring.  I love our community, and I know that you guys do, too.

In honor of that, we are pleased to introduce to you the Community Help forum.  It is the go-to place for finding help and sharing your ideas for implementing, customizing, and brainstorming how to execute your vision with ExpressionEngine.

We actually had this in place already, but...

Introducing our newest Community Partner: Creat-EE

We’re happy to announce a new Community Partner! Creat-EE offers online training in ExpressionEngine. From their website, “The idea behind Creat//ee is simple: to provide professional, practical, yet affordable classes on web design in a personal, friendly, and convenient setting.”

I had a chance to interview Jae Barclay this week to get to know him a bit more.

——Start Interview———

Can you tell me about your background? You’re a University Professor turned ExpressionEngine online...