Your Weekly Devot:ee - June 9, 2011
Wow. This is the 80th weekly devot:ee. EIGHTY. That’s 80 weeks of new add-ons for ExpressionEngine. We’re glad we’ve been able to consistently bring you this handy digest of new add-ons every week. Fun fact: There are now 1,321 add-ons from 337 developers listed on devot:ee. Here are the new additions from this past week:
- Developer (for EE2) by PutYourLightsOn
Developer is an accessory that allows EE site developers to quickly access the most essential sections of the control panel during site setup. - VZ Bad Behavior (for EE2) by Eli Van Zoeren
Uses the open-source Bad Behavior script to block potential spammers, not only from submitting forms, but from even seeing your website. - Testee (for EE1 & EE2) by Stephen Lewis (Experience Internet)
Enables unit testing and TDD for ExpressionEngine add-ons. - Read Playa Entry ($, for EE2) by w3care
This plugin is very useful if you are using playa relationship field which pulls information from other channel entries. This field type will allow you to view all the values of the related channel. So, you can see all the values of the selected entry field for the relationship channel. - Member categories ($, for EE2) by IntoEEtive (Yuriy Salimovskiy)
Members meet channel categories! Assign categories to your members in order to build permissions system on frontend, or to simply categorize your members, or let users save their favorite categories, relate “groups” of members to “groups” of entries - more and more flexibility within your EE site! - Rangee (for EE2) by Wouter Vervloet (Baseworks)
Output many types of different ranges in your templates. From number ranges to months/days. Rangee has it all! - EE2 Countdown (for EE2) by Jack McDade (Lobster War Machine)
The EE2 Countdown plug-in allows you to insert a simple countdown to a specified date into your templates. - Greek-to-Latin URL Title (for EE2) by Diadyo
A small extension that converts Greek letters to Latin in the URL Title as you type Greek in the entry title field. - FG Location ($, for EE2) by Feisty Goat Interactive (Mike Roling)
FG Location is an ExpressionEngine 2.x plugin that returns the last check-in information for Foursquare or Gowalla users and also returns a Google map with a marker on the last location. The data is cached for five minutes within the expressionengine/cache directory to increase page load performance and for high traffic sites to stay within the Foursquare/Gowalla API rate limits. - Filter By Edit Date ($, for EE1) by Laisvunas
This extension allows to filter entries by edit date in Control Panel’s Edit Entries page. Using it you can display entries which have been edited today, in 7 days, in a 30 days, in 180 days, and in 365 days. - New Entries Info ($, for EE1) by Laisvunas
This extension displays in Control Panel’s home page a panel containing info about recently submitted/updated entries. Info about new entries can contain, according your settings: entry title, number of comments, edit entry link, view entry link, author name, updater name, posting date, latest update date, status, categories, and weblog. - CSS Browser Selector (for EE2) by Ronny-André Bendiksen
This plugin returns the visitors operating system and browser as CSS browser selectors to use in your HTML. - VWM Secure Files (for EE2) by Victor Michnowicz
VWM Secure Files allows you to restrict access to files based on a given members group and/or member ID. It includes a module and a simple fieldtype component. - Monthlee (for EE2) by Blake Walters
MonthlEE is a simple ExpressionEngine plugin that takes in a number from 1 to 12 and returns the corresponding month name. - IE6block (for EE2) by Onno Groen
IE6block is an EE2 plugin which makes it easy to redirect or warn IE6 users to either upgrade or change their browser.