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10 ExpressionEngine Production Add-ons
Posted on September 10, 2008 in ExpressionEngine // 9 Comments // Post Comment
Speed is always an issue in the commercial field so here is a list of 10 useful production add-ons in no particular order to make life a whole lot easier. Feel free to add your favourites in the comments below
1. LG Better Meta - LINK
Add and modify page meta data tags on a per entry level through a new publish tab. Improve your sites SEO with custom page titles, descriptions, robot meta tags and more. This extension will takes the groan out of SEO and makes it easy for clients to update meta data tags on an entry basis. Hugely popular with clients who have an awareness of SEO
UPDATE: LG Better Meta 1.7 now includes sitemap meta and a search engine site map generator tag!
2. LG .htaccess Generator - LINK
Automatically generate / update your .htaccess file every time a template group or weblog entry is modified. Simply remove the index.php from your ExpressionEngine URLs. This is a great quick way of updating your .htaccess
3. Playa - LINK
Playa is a powerful one-to-many field loosely based on Mark’s Multi-Relation extension. I only recently found this but have put it to good use.
Unlike the others, it enables you to…
- Pull content from multiple weblogs
- Limit the number of selectable entries
- Order your selections with drag-and-drop
- Close your entries and mean it
- Set selections as searchable
4. Edit Tab AJAX - LINK
Adds the Ability for Dynamic Searching and Sorting in the Edit Tab. This one I always install first
5. Repeet - LINK
Repeet allows the user to simulate repeating events. When used in a template, Repeet tags display EE weblog entries as though they repeat at an interval set by the author. The repeating effect is only simulated; the EE database is not modified in any way.great for events calendar.
6. Sitemap - LINK
The Sitemap Module is an ExpressionEngine add-on that automatically generates a configurable sitemap of your website and notifies search engines about changes in your site.
7. Child categories - LINK
Display a list of subcategories for a given category.Lots of useful variables and parameters which has saved me lots of time.
8. Freeform - LINK
The Freeform module allows developers of ExpressionEngine websites to easily create forms on the fly and post submissions into the Freeform database. Results can be sorted, filtered, emailed and exported. Attachments can be submitted and stored. Any number of fields can be collected and validated. This is a top class module with a Pro version promised.
9. Selected - LINK
The Selected plug-in allows you to dynamically select the state of form elements and CSS objects at page load time. Some possible uses include highlighting a user’s current site location in the nav, or dynamically selecting form content based on user profiles. Very simple but highly effective
10. CSVGrab - LINK
CSVGrab is a plugin to import data from a spreadsheet into ExpressionEngine.
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9 Comments
On 10-09-2008 Steven Hambleton said:
Now you can follow this up with production examples!
This is what I love to see and it can help people put ideas into context.
On 11-09-2008 Leevi Graham said:
Woot Woot, Number 1 & 2!
Thanks for mentioning two my ExpressionEngine Extensions John.
On 18-09-2008 walter said:
many thanks for these… i too like 1 & 2. Hopefully i can finally find a way to remove index.php ...so far everything i have tried has failed
On 20-09-2008 ben said:
nice list! thanks for adding sitemap!
On 22-09-2008 Matt Jeans said:
Very useful, thanks alot!
On 26-09-2008 Kel said:
Mmm… great resource. Thanks. Let’s hope they all work with 2.0 - that’s coming out soon, right? ;-)
On 30-10-2008 Jason said:
Great list. I’ve just started using Playa and Repeet, and both are incredibly handy.
On 07-11-2008 somemacuser said:
“Selected” is completely worthless. You can accomplish everything this extension does with standard EE variables; just another plug for Solspace. Com’on people use your heads!! And those FamFamFam icons look like crap on your new site. Why spoil a cool new design with generic icons like that? FYI, the old layout was much better. Another Update: PhpThumb() is way bloated compared to pi.imagesizer.php add that one to the list.
On 07-11-2008 John Henry said:
@somemacuser The ‘selected’ plugin makes things easier. Always has done. Speeds things up in a production environment. My FLV plugin is completely worthless also as you could just add the template code yourself but I use the plugin myself and lots of other people, all for the same reason, because it makes it that little bit faster and easier.
Ouch.Which of my previous layouts did you like better? There has been 3 this year alone. I get bored with layouts no matter how they look to you. I like to start from scratch every so often. There will probably be another one next year. I might get time to do some custom icons this time round :)
I use phpThumb() because it does piles more than pi.imagesizer.php can do. There is a huge amount of parameters that comes with it that on a production I use a lot in various circumstances that couldn’t be done with the imagesizer plugin esp the treatment of images on this site. And there are sites where I do use the imagesizer plugin. Right tool for the job and all that.