Over a series of 8 videos, watch and learn as Ryan builds an entire ExpressionEngine website from beginning to end. Get started now.
Because it seems to happen often enough that ExpressionEngine release cycles significantly affect third party add-on compatibility, we have created an EE compatibility chart on our site that displays a grid of EE support.
If you use Solspace add-ons, bookmark the compatibility chart and then refer to it before each EE upgrade you do.
Smart move by Solspace.
Posted on Mar 13, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
Posted on Mar 13, 2014 by Ryan Masuga
Yeoman is a web app development workflow that makes it easy to generate scaffolds for dozens of web development technologies.
Rob Sanchez made a Yeoman generator for ExpressionEngine add-ons (a fork of one created for modules) that makes it easy to spin up a new add-on package by just answering some questions.
All it takes is running:
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to generate a new add-on shell.
Posted on Mar 11, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
A popular tool for connecting to EE and editing your templates breaks when running on ExpressionEngine 2.8.
EE 2.8 changed how login works, so Mountee no longer connects properly. We’re looking into it.
— Mountee (@hellomountee) March 11, 2014
In a follow-up tweet, Mountee links to two EllisLab blog posts detailing the new EE 2.8 features on Sessions, Login Modals, and Secure Forms and Cleaner Control Panel URLs.
Unfortunately, these changes in #eecms 2.8 break Mountee and will take a lot of work to fix: http://t.co/m7stJshgME http://t.co/qkV1G2oPYZ
— Mountee (@hellomountee) March 12, 2014
The “a lot of work to fix” note isn’t reassuring. Let’s hope they can make it happen.
Posted on Mar 11, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
This Thursday, March 13, the EE PDX meetup group will meet and cover how to get started building add-ons for ExpressionEngine.
One of our Eugene-based members, Eli Van Zoeren, will teach us how to write/create plugins and extensions to solve your templating roadblocks. Instead of dropping into inline PHP code (messy, insecure, incompatible with certain add-ons) or using the Query module (hard to read, potentially slow), you can create a custom helper add-on for your website.
And, as an added bonus, Mijingo will be giving away a few copies of Low’s Building an ExpressionEngine Add-on video course.
Posted on Mar 10, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
The DCeers meetup will cover ExpressionEngine 2.8 in their next meetup on Tuesday, March 18th at 6:30pm at seventwenty creative.
EE 2.8 is out and brings a variety of changes. Come learn about what’s new and how it will affect your dev process
EllisLab’s Wes Baker will be there and will surely be able to answer any questions you have EE 2.8.
Posted on Mar 10, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.
What #eecms booking engine solutions have you used?
— EllisLab (@EllisLab) March 10, 2014This time from EllisLab itself. Do you have an answer to the question?
Posted on Mar 10, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
Thinking of running your own event or conference? This week, we have Ari Stiles and Christopher Schmitt of Environments for Humans on the show to discuss the nitty gritty of organizing a conference, both on-site and online! We talk about how they started, advice on gathering topics and speakers, ticket sales, budgets, promotion, CMSs to run event sites, and contingency planning. Don’t miss this jam-packed episode!
Thanks to our sponsor Squarespace!
P.S. We’re giving away a free ticket to Peers Conference in DC, April 23-25! Follow CTRL+CLICK on Twitter for details.
Posted on Mar 06, 2014 by CTRL+CLICK CAST
Posted on Mar 06, 2014 by Ryan Masuga
Posted on Feb 27, 2014 by Ryan Masuga
Project management. It is the one consistent element in all builds, no matter what CMS you use. For the latest CTRL+CLICK CAST, Dogmo Studios’ Eliza Wee stops by the show to share her lessons learned in project management as the de facto PM for Dogmo’s client services work. She shares her strategies for managing everything from expectations to multiple stakeholders to scope creep. We talk about pricing models for project management, as well as the tools Eliza uses (and wishes were better) for task management and communication. Tune in now!
Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring!
Posted on Feb 20, 2014 by CTRL+CLICK CAST
Posted on Feb 13, 2014 by Ryan Masuga
This week, Ben Parizek stops by the show to talk about his CMS of choice, Craft. We talk at length about the different CMSs he works with, how different it is to develop for Craft (and why it’s a pleasure), as well as thoughts about education, documentation and the future of plugin development in general. Tune in now!
Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring!
Also, we’ve been nominated as Podcast of the Year for the 2014 .net awards! We appreciate the honor and would love it if you would vote for us. Thank you for all your support!
Posted on Feb 06, 2014 by CTRL+CLICK CAST
Posted on Feb 06, 2014 by Ryan Masuga
Posted on Jan 30, 2014 by Ryan Masuga
No matter what CMS you are working with, good templating is critical to the process. The underlying HTML and CSS structure not only provides the foundation for your CMS variables, but ensures the final output matches the intended design.
For the latest CTRL+CLICK CAST, Happy Cog’s Allison Wagner joins the show to offer best practices for CMS templating and front-end development. She shares her experiences templating for different CMSes, along with the lessons and best practices learned from those efforts. We talk efficiencies like building DRY, using modular conventions and CSS preprocessors. We also offer suggestions for dealing generated with markup from CMSes and add-ons, as well as approaches for allowing clients to access and modify markup. Tune in now!
Thanks to Squarespace for sponsoring!
Posted on Jan 23, 2014 by CTRL+CLICK CAST
Posted on Jan 23, 2014 by Ryan Masuga
We’re taking a brief break from advertising while we retool some things but I do want to thank everyone who has supported EE Inside over the last 5 years.
and some others I’m sure I’m forgetting.
A big, extra thank you to Nevin Lyne and the team at EngineHosting and ArcusTech for hosting this site (and some others) for the last few years. They’re a bunch of great people who always want to see people in the community–and across the web–succeed.
Posted on Jan 20, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
Anna Brown has an interesting idea:
IDEA for #eecms addon dev: Contact the developers of abandoned addons and take over the code… Turn them into commercial addons.
— Anna Brown (@mediagirl) January 17, 2014
If you can’t do the commercial thing, then maybe just put the add-on up on Github and see if people rally behind it.
Posted on Jan 20, 2014 by Ryan Irelan
Freshly released over the weekend, Store 2.2 is out from the fine people at Exp-resso.
The release change you might want to carefully note is that Store 2.2 requires ExpressionEngine 2.7 (and later) now. If you upgrade, ensure you are running that latest version of ExpressionEngine.
I like and use Store. It’s a great e-commerce option for ExpressionEngine.
Read all of the release notes for Store 2.2
Posted on Jan 20, 2014 by Ryan Irelan