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Anecka: Get Help With Abandoned Add-ons

In what looks to be a useful service offering (and a clever differentiation strategy), Columbus, Ohio-based Anecka is offering a flat price to upgrade an abandoned add-on that you rely on.

There are a lot of add-ons we all rely on and sometimes (okay, far too often) they are stuck in the past. They’re not updated and no longer work well (or at all) with newer version of ExpressionEngine. This is especially true after ExpressionEngine 2.8, which made add-on breaking changes.

This puts ExpressionEngine developers/designers who want to upgrade to the latest version of ExpressionEngine in a tough spot as replacing these add-ons can be an expensive and time-consuming process.

Anecka wants to help you update those old, abandoned add-ons so you can keep moving forward with your project.

(The broader lesson here is: choose your add-ons wisely.)

Posted on Jan 05, 2015 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: Community, Development Tools, ExpressionEngine 2

patrickpohler — 12:57 on 01.05.2015

Thanks for the write-up Ryan! We hope this can help people move some out-dated EE sites and keep the platform strong.