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Your Weekly Devot:ee - May 19, 2011

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  • AC Member list (for EE2) by Alpen Consulting
    This plug-in allows you to access member data (including custom member fields) of one or several members. Sorting and filtering by any field (including custom fields) is possible. Useful if you need to display a member list or data of any member not currently logged on.
  • CX Disqus Comments ($, for EE2) by Crescendo
    Easily add Disqus comments to your ExpressionEngine site, export your existing comments to Disqus, and sync new Discus comments back to the ExpressionEngine database for SEO and safe keeping.
  • MB Countdown ($, for EE1 & EE2) by Mark Bowen Design
    Nice simple countdown plugin. Provide a date (can be provided in human readable format) and you then have access to {years}, {months}, {days}, {hours}, {minutes} variables.
  • Pvl PathInfo (for EE2) by Pv Ledoux
    This plugin runs the PHP pathinfo() function on a given path parameter.
  • Get Channels (for EE2) by Pv Ledoux
    Returns a list of channels. Includes a parameter listing all channels to which a logged in member has access.
  • BR Category Crumb (for EE2) by Carl Crawley (Made by Hippo Ltd.)
    Allows you to output parent categories for a Brilliant Retail Product Category.
  • Snippet Sync (Developer license) ($, for EE2) by Brian Litzinger
    Snippet Sync lets you manage all your snippets on the file system just like a normal template. Now you can manage and edit your snippets just like you do a template file.
  • Better Pages ($, for EE2) by Booyant
    Better Pages is an ExpressionEngine fieldtype designed to make using the Pages module significantly more end-user friendly.
  • Child Category Count (for EE2) by Zac Gordon
    A simple plugin that returns the number of child categories for a given category.
  • Purge (for EE2) by Kevin Cupp
    Purge is an extension for ExpressionEngine that sends a purge request to the Varnish caching proxy upon entry submission/deletion. This allows you to keep objects in the cache longer while still being able to keep your site up-to-date.
  • CI Helpers (for EE2) by Focus Lab, LLC (Erik Reagan)
    Bring CI Helpers into your EE templates. Gain access to simple functions backed into CodeIgniter (and thus ExpressionEngine) such as working with Cookies, working with dates, form elements, inflection, word or character limiting and more.

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Ryan Masuga

Filed Under: Weekly Devot:ee