Recent Articles

Multi-language support in ExpressionEngine has a long and inglorious history. For as long as I’ve been involved with the community there have been endless forum threads discussing the painful minutiae of implementing a multi-lingual site in ExpressionEngine, and questioning why life has to be this hard.

I’m a poor guide to the fetid backwaters of building a multi-language site with ExpressionEngine, but I do have a vested interest in the problem.

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Last time out, I talked about the value of adding custom extension hooks to your add-ons.

Shortly after publication, several people got in touch to rebuke me for not discussing how to add a custom extension hook to your add-on. Hopefully this post will fill in the blanks.

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The ability to add custom extension hooks to your add-on is one of the most powerful features of ExpressionEngine. It is also woefully under-used by most add-on developers.

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The venerable SL Developer Info has been updated by the venerable Marc Miller so it now plays nicely with the venerable ExpressionEngine 2. Also, today I learnt a new word.

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A few months ago, I received an email from Lindsay at Meta Q, asking if I’d be interested in answering a few questions for their ongoing series of interviews with people from the ExpressionEngine community. Today, said interview has finally been published.

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It’s not often that I decide an add-on point release warrants a blog post, but the latest version of SmartDown is a bit more than your typical array of minor bug fixes.

More flexible configuration options, new extension hooks, and a boatload of behind-the-scenes improvements mean that I can probably stretch this out to at least 200 words.

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Today marks the official end of life for all my ExpressionEngine 1 add-ons. In practical terms, this means they will no longer be officially supported, and will receive no further updates.

In an attempt to make this bitter pill easier to swallow, BucketList (my sole commercial ExpressionEngine 1 add-on) is now free.

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Regular readers of this site may be shocked to learn that I don’t consider everything I do worthy of a blog post.

Updates to existing add-ons rarely warrant more than a quick Tweet, and many code oddments don’t even make it that far, languishing unloved and unnoticed on my GitHub account.

This post summarises these recent side-shows, for those few misguided individuals not following me (or Experience) on Twitter, or monitoring my every commit on GitHub. If this inaugural effort is met with approval, I’ll publish a round-up post every few weeks or months, as appropriate.

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Late last night I quietly released Usher, a new ExpressionEngine 2 add-on. When a site administrator logs into the Control Panel, Usher redirects him to the CP page of your choosing, based on his Member Group.

I’ve been using Usher on various client sites for several months, and it has proven very useful in taking members directly to the area of the Control Panel that interests them most.

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