Watch me as I build an entire site step-by-step or explain an EE development concept or technique. Some of the videos are free to download and share, while others are published through the Pragmatic Programmers as part of a very popular EE training series.
ExpressionEngine Add-on Developer of the Year* Lodewijk Schutte teaches you how he develops his award-winning plugins, modules and extensions. In more than one hour of video, Low walks you step-by-step through his add-on development process.
Previously, I mentioned the Seed Module by SquareBit, which allows you easily populate Channels with dummy content for testing. Here’s a quick look at the module and how it works.
Follow along in this silent video as a test out the new rich text editor in ExpressionEngine 2.5. I’ve only played with the basics so but it seems like a nice, simple editor that outputs good HTML.
In this 5 minute screencast I look at the LiveReload application for Mac OS X. LiveReload is a utility app that allows you to get an automatic preview of the templates (or directory of files) you’re working on in your preferred browser. It also supports preprocessing and running Terminal commands before reloading. In this video, I walk through the basic use of LiveReload by editing an ExpressionEngine template and also how you can use with other tools, like Jekyll.
Sometimes you forget your credentials to the ExpressionEngine Control Panel and need a way to log in when resetting your password via email fails. Watch this short video from EllisLab to learn how.
In this video I walk through basic use of the module and field type to manage images in the Channel University website we build in my Learning ExpressionEngine 2 video tutorials.
Don’t take a chance when upgrading to a new build or version of ExpressionEngine. Watch this free 16 minute video and follow along for best practices and documentation of the official upgrade steps.
The video covers three different parts of upgrading: Prepare, Update and Test. We talk about backing up your database and files, uploading a new version of EE2 and testing to make sure your site is working properly.
We took the official documentation for updating ExpressionEngine and turned it into an easily digestible video that you can always refer back to when it
