Chad Crowell’s EE Starting Point
It’s always nice to see how other people work with ExpressionEngine and Chad Crowell of Web Inception offered up a large list of the EE add-ons he uses to get started with a project.
Chad doesn’t enable every extension or module, but finds it useful to have the add-on files in the project already in case they’re needed.
I start each ExpressionEngine site with a much larger bank of add-ons than most (if not all) of the blog posts you have read along this topic. My point of view is that it doesn’t hurt to have them in place in the file system of a website, and if I need them, it’s much quicker to just enable them and get back to work.
It’s a great list and you’ll probably come across add-ons that you haven’t seen before.
Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ryan Irelan
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Ben Carlson — 14:16 on 05.28.2009
Going to give this a try, it makes compete sense. Hopefully Devot-ee can help with keeping all these things up-to-date, that could end up being a pain after getting a list like Chad’s!
Adam Smith — 11:34 on 05.29.2009
Hmmm… he must spend a lot of time constantly updating them.
Chad Crowell — 22:13 on 06.04.2009
Not really Adam - being “in” the community everyday, I typically follow most EE devs on twitter and the forums, so when people announce updates, I can decide if it is something I need to update or not. Typically I revisit my starting point every time a new EE build comes out and see what may need to be updated or included. Takes maybe 10 minutes every 8 weeks.