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- Lamplighter ($) by Masuga Design
Lamplighter.io is a web application to help monitor the sites you built and maintain, giving you a centralized view of activities across all your sites, whether managed with a CMS or not. The module allows your ExpressionEngine-based site to securely send information to Lamplighter.
- NavEE Select by The Outfit
ExpressionEngine fieldtype to select which NavEE navigation should be used for a specific channel entry.
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Many sites (including this one!) rely on site ad revenue. When designing and developing an excellent user experience, what should be kept in mind if your priority is to maximize conversions for your client?
For the first episode of 2014, we discuss Balancing Conversions with User Experience and how to accommodate ad priorities in a responsive site design. We weigh in on quantitative and qualitative metrics that inform decisions in design and code, how ad placement can affect responsive design decisions, and share what we learned about how prioritizing conversions involve every part of a project life cycle.
We also ask: what does a “minimal blogging platform” mean to you? Let us know!
Tune in now!
Thanks to CodePen Pro for sponsoring!
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- Perfect by James Smith
“Perfect” is a simple module that returns the percentage of a given channel entry’s custom fields which are complete. So if you’re using one of the popular profile add-ons that stores member data as a channel entry (Zoo Visitor, Profile:Edit) you could use Perfect to show a logged-in member how complete their profile is.
- Helpvars by Caddis
Make various segment and helper variables available globally.
- Structure Get URL by Rein de Vries
Get the Structure/pages uri or url with a simple call.
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I’ve been posting these weekly updates on EE Insider since way back on July 29, 2010. Before I started doing them myself, Ryan Irelan had been posting weekly articles. That said, we might have a first in the couple hundred times we’ve been posting these updates: there were no new add-ons submitted to devot:ee over the past week. Not to fear, I’m sure ExpressionEngine developers everywhere took advantage of the holiday break to re-charge and prepare for 2014. I hope everyone had an enjoyable, restful and safe holiday season. Happy New Year to the ExpressionEngine community. Now get back to work!
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- Tax Playa by Mark Croxton
A custom fieldtype for ExpressionEngine that creates a checkbox tree or drop-down menu for one or more Taxonomy trees. Selected items are added as Playa relationships.
- RTL URL title fix by Akwadnet
RTL URL title fix is a small extension that simulates the Pronouncing for RTL Languages into English characters when you type RTL Languages text into Entry title field.
- Copeeright ($) by phasrCo
Easily add dynamic copyright date and information to your ExpressionEngine template without the need for PHP.
- Wires by Mark Croxton
Wire up your forms to URI segments. Search, filter sort and order entries with clean, friendly uris that can be cached and bookmarked.
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For our last episode of the year, we reflect on 2013 and what we each learned, professionally and personally. We discuss some of our new workflows, including version control, CMS planning and responsive development, as well as the new tools we are using for our projects. We also share lessons learned in business, including human resources, contracts and documentation. We finish up the episode (and the year!) looking forward to 2014! Tune in now!
Thanks to Visual Chefs for sponsoring and happy holidays to everyone! We’ll see you next year!
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- Decimal to Percentage by Judd Lyon
ExpressionEngine plugin that converts decimals to percentages and vice-versa. Useful for sports standings and whatnot.
- URL Encoder by Judd Lyon
Encode URLs using PHP’s urlencode or rawurlencode.
- Chilli: Save for Publisher by Gaetan (Gaetan Lafaut)
This little extension adds some extra save buttons to the publisher toolbar. By default it adds a ‘save and return’ button and a ‘save and add a new entry’ button. The ‘save and return’ button brings you back to the entries list after you saved. The ‘save and add a new entry’ button brings you to the new entry page. On the settings page you can specify which button to show on each channel.
- VMG Nested by Andrew Kaslick (Vector Media Group)
An extremely flexible plugin for ExpressionEngine that allows for more flexibility when nesting any module and plugin tags within others, including the ability to add variable prefixes to any tags. VMG Nested supports third party modules and plugins.
- TS SendGrid Event Webhook Notifier by TotalServe
Do you send e-mail via SendGrid? View Event Notifications sent from SendGrid from within the ExpressionEngine Control Panel. Events include bounces, clicks, opens and more.
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Back in October, EllisLab reminded us that EE 1 support ends tomorrow, December 7th.
This is 3 years after the EE2 public beta came out (I remember this because my ExpressionEngine book came out at the same time).
To ensure that expert help from EllisLab continues to be available for all your client sites, we encourage you to upgrade your remaining ExpressionEngine 1 sites as soon as possible.
You can upgrade each license for only $50 by clicking the upgrade button next to each ExpressionEngine 1 license that hasn’t yet been upgraded on your manage purchases page.
This site was the last of mine to move off EE 1 (took long enough, Ryan) but I’m sure many of you have sites and clients still running EE 1. Make sure they know about this support change!
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- Member Switcher ($) by Midwestern Interactive
This add on allows any Super Admin to interact with their site and trouble shoot user bugs through a specific users eyes on the fly without knowing the users password. This add on also allows you to develop member specific template views without having to “log in and out” of the CPanel.
- Geo Redirect ($) by Customhost
This module allows you to build country-based redirect rules for your visitors. You can show pop-up message for your visitors or redirect users right after they open the site. Module allows you to define custom messages and redirect URL for each country.
- Coinbase API for Bitcoin by Dom & Tom
Accept Bitcoins on your site! This module provides access to the Coinbase API for Bitcoins. This supports adding Bitcoins as a way for user to pay on your site by generating a “Buy Button”. Accesses the Coinbase API and requires a merchant account there. USD is the default price currency iso, but that can be changed in the config.
- Store Product Modifiers Range ($) by Jason Varga
Show the actual price range of an Exp:resso Store product based off its modifiers.
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Until Monday December 2nd, you can get 50% off my ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide book. This was the first book on ExpressionEngine 2 and published by the wonderful folks at The Pragmatic Programmers. It is available as an ebook (PDF and other formats).
Read the complete details about the sale and make sure you use the coupon code turkey2013 during checkout to get the book for 50% off (only $11!).
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Curious about creating a site with flat files? Jack McDade makes the case for his CMS, Statamic, and explains why it is the friendliest CMS you’ll ever meet. He explains the benefits of developing using flat files, including speed and version control, how the control panel is optional, struggles of documenting properly and using “real language” to convey technical topics, the API for add-on development, and what’s on the horizon for Statamic.
Tune in now! Thanks to Visual Chefs for sponsoring this episode.
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- Social Share Count by Bhashkar Yadav
This is the simple plugin can be used to get the number of social shares. With this plugin, the following can tracked: Tweets, Facebook Shares, Facebook Likes, Google +1′s, LinkedIn Shares, Pinterest Pinned.
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Looking to write lighter-weight and more maintainable CSS? Jonathan Snook joins the show to discuss SMACSS, Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS. He details how the SMACSS methodology helps create re-usable CSS that is independent from HTML and the DOM, making it easier to add “style modules” to sites and applications. Jonathan discusses why he developed SMACSS and how the Shopify team is implementing the approach for its products. He also shares how he got into writing and speaking, and why he chose to self-publish SMACSS. Tune in now!
Thanks to Perch for sponsoring!
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- RSS Feedr ($) by Carl Crawley (Made by Hippo Ltd.)
RSS Feedr allows you to aggregate limitless numbers of RSS providers into a single feed using a simple admin interface. It allows you to specify whether the RSS feeds are ‘Automatic’ (pulled in and published to the front end) or ‘Manual’ (pulled in but held in a ‘draft feeds’ option for manual publishing).
- Zen EE by Judd Lyon
A video encoding module and fieldtype for ExpressionEngine, powered by Zencoder.
- Upload Path Updater by 96black
This module allows you to easily update all of your file upload paths in one place, which is very useful when teams of people are working on an EE site in many different environments.
- Fallback Field by Rein de Vries
Ever wanted to use a fallback field in case some field is empty. Or use data from an other channel in case the field is empty. With the fallback module you can set one (or more) fallback fields that will be called if the field is empty.
- Wygwam Taxonomy Links by iain
Allows you to insert links to Taxonomy nodes from the Wygwam link dialogue.
- EE Num2word by Sekar Suresh
This Simple Plugin will convert Number to Words.
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This is a on-going series of entries where I highlight EE experiences.
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Speaking of conferences…
Today Low announced a new conference coming next June: Gee Up. And it’ll be focused on ExpressionEngine.
The conference will take place in June in Leiden, The Netherlands. This is, of course, the same place that the first EECI took place in late 2009 (2009 was a great year for ExpressionEngine).
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Since the ExpressionEngine Conference wrapped almost a month ago, the team behind the conference has been busy prepping videos of the conference sessions. Every session in the conference was recorded and they are being posted on the ExpressionEngine Conference website for attendees and anyone who wants to purchase them to watch.
The cost to get access to the recorded sessions (not the workshops and classes) is $150. Videos will come in low resolution and HD resolution. New videos are released every week.
Interested? Learn more about After Show Access to the videos.
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- GroupDocs Assembly by GroupDocs
The GroupDocs Assembly ExpressionEngine plugin lets you collect data to automatically create new documents online by embedding GroupDocs Assembly questionnaires.
- GroupDocs Comparison by GroupDocs
The GroupDocs Comparison plugin for ExpressionEngine allows you to embed and compare two Word documents, as well as PDF files and Excel spreadsheets, from within your website. GroupDocs Comparison is a web-based app that lets you compare documents online using a browser. Simply upload two Word documents and let GroupDocs Comparison find the difference between them. It even allows you to merge the differences and export the document to a Word file!
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