New Extension: Custom System Messages

We’ve all seen the user and system messages that, if unaltered, appear in the standard ExpressionEngine blue. We see it when we log in, we see it when there’s an error. But beside some basic markup and CSS there’s little we can do to affect how they look. We certainly can’t add EE tags or use regular EE templates.

Not until now, that is.

Brian Litzinger today released Custom System Messages, a EE 1.6.8 extension that allows you to customize the messages and use normal EE templates.

This extension lets you define any 2 templates within your template groups to be used as the error page. You have access to all the usual variables from the Specialty Templates, plus a new one, {referrer}. So on top of any EE template tag you want to use in the error page, you have {title}, {meta_refresh}, {heading}, {content}, {link}, and {referrer}. {link} can also be changed to render without the JavaScript history.go() method if you desire. There are 3 options which I called Accessibility in the extension settings.

Read Brian’s forum post and download the extension: Custom System Messages Extension