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AjaxPublish + Illuminated + Publish Bar

February 04, 2012

Tags: ee, extensions, publish

I've been playing with a new extension I'm calling AJaxPublish. It basically hooks into the publish page to prevent the need for a full page reload when saving an entry.

By combining this with my field type Illuminated and the awesome Publish...

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New field type - Illuminated

January 19, 2012

Tags: ee, fieldtypes

Tired of struggling with a WYSIWYG editor to edit content on your site? Speak HTML? Then Illuminated is for you - a high quality editing surface that supports full syntax highlighting for HTML and JavaScript code - right in your publish page.

Illuminated is the anti-WYSIWYG editor - Illuminate your content and get work done. Read more...

Easy custom plugins

January 11, 2012

Tags: ee, add-on development, plugins

Edit: I've recently (1/17/2011) given a short talk on this at the @TwinCitiesEE user group. Slides from that talk are here. Read on for more detailed discussion of the topic.

Imagine a scenario where you have some special data that you wish...

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Channel file handling for ExpressionEngine

January 06, 2012

Tags: ee, files

I've been thinking about the way that file handling is done in ExpressionEngine 2.0 lately. I think I've come up with a design that would be a lot easier to work with and provide a lot of additional options beyond what we have right now. Basically the idea boils down to this:

Files should be stored...

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