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New Feature: EE Insider Tips

Today I’m opening up a new feature on EE Insider. Please say hello to EE Insider Tips, a collection of community-created mini tutorials on ExpressionEngine.

Right now there are only a handful of tips in the system to get started, but I know that you will jump in and contribute your tips.

Share your tips

The idea is simple. We all have little tips and tricks about developing websites with ExpressionEngine, but not always a place where we can share them with others and make them easy to find.

EE Insider Tips allows you to create a mini how-to, share a code snippet or development philosophy.

Find Tips

It’s easy to find the information you’re looking for by using the search, browsing by tags or viewing the tips the community has found most helpful.

Save Helpful Tips

If you find tips that are useful and helpful, you don’t want to lose track of them. 

You can easily keep track of the tips you like by marking them “helpful” and then later referencing your Helpful Tips right on your EE Insider Tips dashboard.

Find a tip you like and never lose track of it.

Contribute and Win!

Over the next two weeks, I’m going to award a free EE Code T-shirt to five different people who contribute tips. In order to qualify you have to add at least 3 tips and one of those has to be deemed (by me) to be excellent and helpful. Winners will be notified by email.

Anyone can view tips, but contributing to EE Insider Tips, marking tips as Helpful and other features require a free account.

Thank You, Solspace

Finally, I want to thank Solspace for sponsoring EE Insider Tips. I used several of their add-ons to make EE Insider Tips possible and they’ve been extremely helpful when I ran into implementation issues. Thank you!

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: News

Jason Morehead07:07 on 05.29.2009

This is a great idea, and I look forward to see what others post.

However, I did notice a slight glitch when editing a tip: anything that I put within CODE tags was deleted (though the CODE tags remained) and the overall text formatting was removed.

Ryan Irelan07:11 on 05.29.2009

Thanks, Jason. I did see the formatting issue on your tip and I’m looking into it now!

Zac Gordon07:34 on 05.29.2009

Cool!  Good call, man.  I look forward to seeing it develop smile

Erik Reagan08:02 on 05.29.2009

Hey Ryan, do you think you can share which Solspace add-ons you are utilizing for the new Tips section? Since this centers around EE developers I’m sure I’m not the only one curious. And I doubt Solspace would mind you advertising the specific add-ons wink

Kelsey Martens08:43 on 05.29.2009

The section looks great Ryan smile

Ryan Irelan10:23 on 05.29.2009

Erik, I do plan to do a run-down of what I used to build Tips. Look for that in the coming weeks.

pab06:22 on 06.01.2009

Excellent idea Ryan.