Expression Engine 2 Plugin: SuperGeekery Tag Stripper, version 1.0
The redesign of SuperGeekery coincided with the release of Expression Engine 2 which gave me the opportunity to jump into the latest version of EE on a project that I was the client on, allowing me to be potentially break things without affecting a client. It also gave me the opportunity to try my hand at creating my first EE plugin. It's called SuperGeekery Tag Stripper and you're welcome to download the plugin and use it in your own projects,... + read on
A Quick Way To Password Protect a Web Page.
There are a variety of ways to password protect pages online. Perhaps the easiest is to use an .htaccess file. The reason this is the easiest way is because it’s built into the control panel at many hosting companies. I use Dreamhost and it’s control panel makes it automatic. Sweet. If you don’t have that as part of your hosting package, check out this article at htmllite for a walk through on do it yourself.
What I don’t like about the... + read on
Quick tip: Expression Engine Movable Type Export
Another day, another EE tidbit. I wanted to export the entries from my blog in a simple text backup (MT Export Format). In the Expression Engine support wiki, there is an entry on how to do this in the 1.6.8 version, but I’m using 2.0.1 public beta. I had to do a few modifications to make it work in the new version. I posted my code on the Wiki, but if you ended up here looking for export tips, here’s how I did it.
First, as the wiki page... + read on
Quick tip: Expression Engine Microformatted date
I’m rebuilding SuperGeekery behind the scenes. Along the way, I will try to post little tidbits I think might be helpful along the way.
I’ve spent the past 10 minutes formatting the dates for entries using microformats. That means wrapping the human-readable date that is displayed on a web site inside a <time> tag that is machine-readable. Here’s how you do that in Expression Engine.
<div class="date">
<time datetime="{entry_date... + read on
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