Dev Blog archive: ExpressionEngine
8 mei 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…
19 maart 2008, 1 comment
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…
11 december 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…
2 december 2007, 11 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.
6 augustus 2007, 4 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.
18 juni 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…
6 mei 2007, 9 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…
11 april 2007, 7 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…
8 januari 2007, 5 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…
14 november 2006, 27 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…
29 augustus 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…
3 maart 2006, 55 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…
8 juni 2005, 9 comments
pi.exif.php: an Expression Engine plugin to read the EXIF meta data from jpegs.
3 juni 2005, 5 comments
pi.allowphp.php: yet another Expression Engine plugin.
Update: you could also use the one listed at expressionengine.com.
25 mei 2005, 48 comments
File Manager, an ExpressionEngine module to — guess what — manage your files!
1 februari 2005, 46 comments
My first plugin for EE: Find & Replace.