Introducing Low Reorder 2.0
Back in the day, Elwin Zuiderveld brought you Reeorder for EE1. A simple yet effective little add-on that quickly became popular. When I took over Elwin’s add-ons, I took the same approach, polished it a bit, and released it as Low Reorder for EE2. It made use of a custom field type to store the order of a given entry in a field/channel combination. Pro: simple to use. Con: limited flexibility. Today, I bring you Low Reorder 2.0. It steps away from the custom field approach and introduces Sets, keeping it simple and adding more flexibility.
Gee Up: ExpressionEngine training in Europe
Apart from building add-ons, I’ve also done my fair share of teaching, lately. That included some impromptu ExpressionEngine training sessions, code audits and a whole series of front-end workshops. It’s a nice change from sitting at my desk all day, so when Jamie Pittock approached me about organizing ExpressionEngine workshops together, I did not hesitate. A while later, Gee Up was born.
Introducing Low Search 2.0
Earlier this year, I was commissioned to build a better alternative for the native Search and Replace utility in ExpressionEngine. First, I thought I’d make it a separate add-on, but later I decided to incorporate it into Low Search. Searching and replacing often go hand in hand, so why not in this case? So here we are: Low Search 2.0, which features a Find & Replace utility and more.
Introducing Low Variables 2.0
Happy New Year! Here’s to another year of ExpressionEngine goodness. And let me start by introducing Low Variables 2.0, the biggest update my first commercial add-on has seen so far. Here are a couple of new features that come with it.
Snippets and Preload Replace Variables
At the excellent EECI conference in New York last October, I talked about ExpressionEngine’s Parse Order. In the slides, I hid a little trick I recently rediscovered: putting preload replace variables in snippets. This combination will make your snippets even more useful than they already are. Here’s why.