Email Marketing

A few days ago EllisLab released the public beta of Expression Engine 2.0. The system in most areas has undergone significant upgrades however their Communicate module remains mainly unchanged. There has been some debate regarding whether this module justified inclusion in EE2.0 given it’s limited application. SmoothFunction tried to address these short comings with their [...]

Upgrading from SmoothFunctions’s Boomerang 1.0 to 1.1

SmoothFunction has just released it’s latest version of Boomerang which now allows you to use all of Expression Engine’s template variables in your email templates. I did find however that just replacing the files from version 1.0 with the 1.1 update caused my templates to stop working all together. So instead I decided to document [...]

Title Field – Stop Repeating Yourself!

Title Field is an Expression Engine extension which helps you create better weblog entry titles. Quite often I’ll have a weblog where the title of that weblog entry contains the values of two or three other fields in that weblog. For example, if I’m adding information into a weblog which contains a number of second [...]

Expression Engine extension to save you from excessive scrolling

Expression Engine is great CMS but there are a few user interface issues that I always felt could be improved. One of these is when you create a weblog with a lot of fields. I often find after entering data into all these fields that it’s unusual that I then have to scroll back up [...]

Moving Expression Engine

We’ve had to move an Expression Engine 1.6.x site a couple of times over the last week to test out a few servers, and as a result, I thought some people might find it handy to have a reference of all the nooks and crannies that Expression Engine tucks it’s path information into. Before you [...]

Re-installing Expression Engine

Three steps to re-installing Expression Engine