Weekly Wrap: September 14, 2012

We’re halfway through September and here in Austin the summer heat has broken, rain is falling and there’s a hint–just a small hint–of Fall.

The Fall is a gorgeous time in Austin and, it just happens, next month is EECI 2012 just west of town in the beautiful Texas hill country. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. You’re coming, too, right?

Let’s move on to the news.

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Editor 2.1.0 Released

DevDemon announced a new version of Editor. Version 2.1.0 offers “Site Pages linking support & {filedir_x} parsing.”

Low Search 2.1.0 Available

Low Search now has relationship filters, a new low_search_pre_search extension hook, which lets you change the search params before the search, and lots more.

New Site Launches by QB Marketing

QB Marketing has a bunch of site launches to mention this week. Here they are:

• Eleanor Beaton Communications
• Tim Outhit (political election site)
• Bedford Academy
• Community Matters

Congrats on the hard work!

Redactee 1.1

Now includes support for Site Pages and Structure. What’s Redactee? A “simple and lightweight WYSIWYG editor” by Jack McDade at Lobster War Machine.

New Site Launch: Peter Lewis Flooring

Richard Meredith let us know about the brand new Peter Lewis Flooring site that was launched on ExpressionEngine.

Sassy CP 2.0 Released

Kyle Cotter announced an update to Sassy CP. Version 2.0 is still free!

Austin ExpressionEngine Meetup

On 9/26 the Austin ExpressionEngine Meetup will take place at Capital Factory in downtown Austin. I’ll be presenting on my experience selling products online with ExpressionEngine.

Gmaps 2.0 Available

Gmaps 2.0 was released with more caching, support for Google Maps Premium key, and a lot more new parameters.

Flag Master Updated

The new version of Flag Master include Zenbu support, new tags and more.

Tweet of the Week

Chosen by me, shared with you.

Today we passed 1700 add-ons listed on @devot_ee- Awesome! Add-on devs are what make #eecms as powerful and easy to use as it is.

— Jacob Russell (@jacobrussell) September 13, 2012

On the EE Insider Blog

• New EE Insider Blogger: Kyle Cotter
• New EE Meetup: Austin, TX
• ExpressionEngine 2.5.3 Released
• EE Help Chat Tonight
• Your Weekly Devot:ee - September 13, 2012
• What They’re Saying About EE
• W3Techs CMS Market Share Report
• EE Podcast Live at EECI

Have a great weekend and see you next week! Kyle will be back at the helm of the blogging machine.