Archives: dev

  • Change your client’s mind

    August 6th 2008, 1 comment

    As I read Vitamin’s latest article by Paul Boag, called The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS, I couldn’t help but wonder whether the author had been looking over my shoulder the last couple of weeks. It was as if…

  • SEO vs. UO

    July 24th 2008, 2 comments

    My site’s redesign should be a good opportunity to add my first rant to my developer blog. A rant about a trend I’ve noticed lately, called Search Engine Optimalisation, or SEO. Of course, this isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s probably as…

  • EE: Low CP extension

    July 4th 2008, 13 comments

    There are some minor nuisances in the ExpressionEngine Control Panel that started to bug me and — more importantly — some of my clients. To get rid of them, I’ve created an extension: Low CP, Control Panel according to Low.

  • EE: Safe Encode extension

    May 8th 2008, 3 comments

    The Dutch web guidelines do not allow you to use obfuscation to hide email addresses that are published on your site. ExpressionEngine will always use JavaScript to display email addresses when you use the {encode=""} syntax. With this extension, you can…

  • EE: Google Mini Plugin

    March 19th 2008, 2 comments

    This plugin lets you integrate search results from your Google Mini search appliance (GM) into ExpressionEngine seamlessly. If you’re using the GM to index your web site or intranet, this plugin will handle the search requests to it, retrieve the search…

  • EE search bookmarklet

    December 11th 2007, 1 comment

    If you’re anything like me, you’d agree that ExpressionEngine’s search functionality is adequate, but not as good as, say, Google. So, you’d rather use the latter than the former to search through expressionengine.com. And if you’re anything like me, you’re a…

  • Clean up your clean installation

    December 2nd 2007, 13 comments

    When you install ExpressionEngine, it automatically creates some default templates and categories for you, among other things. But since I like my clean installations really spotless, I created some sql queries to clean up your clean install.

  • EE: Title plugin

    August 6th 2007, 12 comments

    This ExpressionEngine plugin lets you retrieve an entry title quickly and effectively. Instead of the default {exp:weblog:entries}-tag with all its parameters, just use this plugin if you only want to display a title. Very useful for breadcrumbs or document <title>s.

  • Multiple Rick Birthday Contest

    June 18th 2007

    It was Rick Ellis’ birthday the other day, and there’s a new version of ExpressionEngine coming up, so his colleagues came up with a nice little contest: take any of the given pictures of the EllisLab CEO and use them as…

  • EE: Nice Date plugin

    May 6th 2007, 16 comments

    This ExpressionEngine plugin takes a certain date and format and outputs the given date in the given format, localized or not. This is particularly useful when you use dates in the url and you don’t want to use a {exp:weblog:entries} tag…

  • Ajax Archives in ExpressionEngine

    April 11th 2007, 9 comments

    Ever since the Ajax hype began, there’s been talk about its proper use. Yes, with great power comes great responsibility, so you should think twice before you sprinkle Ajax fairy dust over your web site. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t…

  • Last segment: a global variable

    January 8th 2007, 7 comments

    As you might know, ExpressionEngine uses segments to access information in your URLs. These segment variables are available throughout your templates and are useful for conditionals, other EE tags, and a whole lot more. Retrieving an absolute segment is easy. Retrieving…

  • Easy throbbing

    December 20th 2006, 3 comments

    When using Ajax techniques, you can use a throbber to let the user know that something is being done on the background. This throbber — usually an animated gif — is either shown or hidden when an Ajax call is initiated…

  • Welcome to Low Dev blog

    December 18th 2006

    Soon I will post some useful tips and tricks here, about ExpressionEngine, plugin development, JavaScript, CSS and much, much more…

  • Akismet for ExpressionEngine

    November 14th 2006, 31 comments

    Comment spam and trackback spam are a big nuisance. Not only for bloggers, but also for the ones making the blogging software like Movable Type, WordPress and — of course — ExpressionEngine. And although the latter is already fitted with some…

  • EE: widon’t plugin

    August 29th 2006, 4 comments

    Shaun Inman created this neat little plugin for Wordpress to eliminate widows from post titles. Don’t know what widows are, apart from the female kind? Mr Inman explains: In typesetting, a widow is a single word on a line by itself…

  • EE: Yearly Archives plugin

    March 3rd 2006, 66 comments

    Yearly Archives: een ExpressionEngine plugin. Start Engelse modus… With this plugin, you can easily set up yearly archives like this (in Dutch, but you’ll get the idea) in an efficient way. You could consider it an alternative to the Archive Month…

  • EE: Exif plugin

    June 8th 2005, 9 comments

    pi.exif.php: an Expression Engine plugin to read the EXIF meta data from jpegs. Note: development for this plugin has been discontinued.

  • EE: Allow PHP plugin

    June 3rd 2005, 5 comments

    pi.allowphp.php: yet another Expression Engine plugin. Update: you could also use the one listed at expressionengine.com.

  • EE: File Manager Module

    May 25th 2005, 56 comments

    File Manager, an ExpressionEngine module to — guess what — manage your files!

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