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This is for discussion of Extensions in EE. Extensions are custom scripts that interact with the core EE code base to increase functionality or alter it without hacking. Only available from EE 1.4 or higher.
Read more in this thread on the EE Forum.
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Table of Contents
List of Add-ons hosted at GitHub
WYSIWYG Editor Extensions
• jQuery WYSIWYG extension
• epEditor extension
• FCKEditor Wiki Page
• Shift FCKeditor - Another FCKEditor Extension
• TinyMCE Wiki Page
• WYSIWYG Category Page
• Xinha Extension (WYSIWYG Editor)- beta
• New beta versian of Xinha extension
• Release version of Xinha extension.
Control Panel Extensions
• Extensions (External Link): Checkbox, Multi Drop-down List, Radio Buttons, Multi-text, LiveSearch, File Input Field, Duplicate Entry, Edit Remember, Empty Options, Custom Fields in EE Tags, Multi Relationship.
• Auto Collapse Empty Custom Fields - Collapses empty custom fields on the Publish Page.
• BN Add custom field short_name - will display your custom field {short_name} after the field label in the publish/edit form.
• Category Checkboxes A checkbox replacement for the categories multi-select box on the Publish page.
• Category Permission - allows you to restrict entry posting on a per member basis to specific categories.
• Communicate Settings allows you to specify default name, from, recipient, cc, and bcc values for the Communicate page.
• Count Alias - adds a {count_alias} and {total_results_alias} variable to the weblog tag
• CP Entry Permalink
• Disable pMachine Feed - disables the CP pMachine Feed Reader for all users
• Edit Menu - adds a weblog menu to the Edit tab
• Entry Expiration Notification - Notifies configurable recipients and / or closes expired entries.
• Entry Hits - adds a column to the Edit Section Entries results table that shows the number of hits that entry has.
• Entry Permissions - you can use Entry Permissions to restrict which entries members are allowed to edit.
• First Timer - allows you to redirect members to a location of your choosing upon their first successful login.
• Gypsy - frees your custom fields from their field groups, enabling you to assign them directly to your weblogs.
• LG .htaccess Generator - Multi-Site Manager compatible extension that automatically generates and updates your sites .htaccess file everytime an entry, template group or template is created or modified. Using special {ee:} tags LG .htaccess Generator allows you to easily remove your sites index.php file using the “Include List Method”.
• LG Addon Updater - LG Addon Updater is a MSM compatible extension that allows 3rd party ExpressionEngine developers to notify users of updates to installed addons (plugins, extensions, modules).
• LG Add Sitename - Easily modify your Expression Engine administration to show the current site name, images and more using simple CSS, XHTML.
• LG Better Meta - Add and modify page meta data tags on a per entry level through a new publish tab. Improve your sites SEO with custom page titles, descriptions, robot meta tags and more.
• LG File Manager - Integrate Moxicodes MCFileManager with Expression Engine using a new custom field type.
• LG Image Manager - Integrate Moxicodes MCImageManager with Expression Engine using a new custom field type.
• LG Member List - Adds a new custom field type that adds a drop down populated with members to publish forms. Members can be grouped and specific member groups can be excluded.
• LG Social Bookmarks - Add social bookmarking links to your weblog entries & templates.
• LG TinyMCE - Integrate Moxicodes TinyMCE into the publish form using a custom field type. Supports GZip compression and comes with optimised configuration.
• LG Twitter - Multi-Site Manager compatible extension that allows you to post Tweets to Twitter.com from your ExpressionEngine control panel. Tweets can be posted through a Twitter tab which is added to the publish / edit form or through the “Quick Tweet” bar. LG Twitter can also post dynamic tweets replacing ExpressionEngine tags with weblog entry values.
• Livesearch - Enabling this extension adds a “Livesearch” field to the top of the admin tab. Typing in there will select entries and comments containing the inputted text.
• Member Group Permissions - you’ll see a table that displays (i) member groups, (ii) list of all your templates grouped by site and template group, (iii) yes/no indicator of whether each member group has access to that template.
• Multiple Newsletters - Create multiple newsletters based on existing templates.
• Nested Weblogs - Creates groups in publish menu based on your weblog names.
• NoFocus - it stops the publish page from focusing the title once the page has completed loading. Download it from here
• NSM Publish Plus - improve your ExpressionEngine workflow with drafts, revisions, notes and fine-grained member publishing privleges. Related
forum thread.
• Pingback - This extension adds the capability to send and receive pingbacks to ExpressionEngine.
• Postponed - This extension allows the use of pings and trackbacks in combination with future entries.
• PublishImprove - Remove Quick Save button, Label the File Upload button, Add a home page editing link.
• Publish Tweeks - alters the publish/edit page to streamline it for your users. It removes the “Quick Save” and “Preview” buttons when publishing. It also cancels the redirect to the preview after saving and keeps the user on the edit screen.
• Remove Modules Tab - Removes the Modules tab from the Control Panel.
• Remove “My Account” Tab - Removes the “My Account” tab from the Control Panel.
• Required Category - With this extension, there’s a setting for every weblog which specifies whether categories are required or not for posts in that weblog. Related forum thread.
• Restrict Entries - enables another tab in the Publish page (configurable by weblog) that allows you to restrict that entry to certain member groups including the Guest group (anonymous site visitors).
• Snitch - overrides ExpressionEngine’s built-in notification system. It sends notifications when entries are created, updated, and deleted, and enables you to customize the e-mail template. (There’s a version which sends notifications to member groups instead of mailinglists, too: Snitch Member Groups)
• Show Entry Views
• Strange URL Interpreter - Gives ability to convert foreign-language characters in entry’s URL Title to proper characters
• Tab Forward - Brings a specified tab forward in the Entry Forms.
• Textarea Resizer vertically resize textareas in Publish area.
• Toggle Fields adds links to the edit/publish that expand or collapse all fields.
• ViewPreview - true previews of your entries
• Show Categories on Edit Page Extension Adds a column to the edit page in the control panel that lists the categories that each weblog entry is assigned to.
Other Extensions
• Atozee - Alphabetic list of entries.
• Auto-login on registration - triggers the system to log in a member who just registered.
• Code Highlighter - All highlighting is done through the use of stylesheets and a naming convention of your choice.
• Comment Text Formatting Extension Applies Textile or Markdown text formatting to comments without having to wrap your comment text with a plugin tag.
• CoolLocation - Integrated Yahoo! or Google GeoCoding within Publish/Edit of the ExpressionEngine Control Panel.
•Flickr - Allows you to browse your Flickr photos within EE and embed them in entries, as well as several tags to display your photostream, favorite photos, tag clouds, etc.
•Forum Exifier - Adds Exif variables to the forum templates to use in combination with images attached to a post.
•GeSHify - a GeSHi syntax highlighting extension for EE.
•Goto Comment -after a user submits a comment on a blog entry, it will automatically scroll down to it.
• Forum Videoplug - lets you use youtube and google video in your forum.
• Logout Redirect
• Mint Cookie Tag - for use with the Mint (stats package) pepper Nametags.
• Rewrite - Redirect URL’s to new ones (301/302/etc)
• SAEF Auto Mailer
• Scroll to Comment - makes a page scroll down to the newly submitted comment after a visitor has added it.
• Seg2Cat - gives you easy access to category ids so you can use them in your URIs and templates without the use of the Category URL Indicator or custom PHP.
• Simple Tags - Allows tagging of weblog entries with words or phrases and retrieving entries based on their assigned tags.
• Unregistered Comment - if someone posts a comment whilst logged out and the name they submit is either a username or screen_name that already exists in the system due to a person already registering it this will show an error allowing the person to go back to the comment form again and change their name.
• UpdateMail sends out a notification email on a new or updated post. download it from here (link changed - update your bookmarks!)
• URL Field Extension Adds the ability to create custom fields designed to store URLs, with some assistive checks for validation.
• EE LDAP