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EE Plugin - Repeet

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Introduction

About the Plugin

Repeet is a plugin for Expression Engine. It was written by Brent C. Wilson. Portions of the code are borrowed from or based on the Expression Engine code base. That code is used with permission from pMachine, Inc.

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.

Repeet is free software. No warranties are offered or implied. Use at your own risk. Technical support is not provided. However, the author does want the plugin to be useful for the EE community. If you run into a problem, post on the EE forums and/or contact the author directly.

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EE Module - User (Solspace)

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User 2.0.7

The User module’s primary purpose is to bring EE member template functionality outside of those restricted templates, and into regular EE templates. Imagine implementing very customizable and flexible member templates within minutes! Easily display other features in a users profile page such as their recent weblog entries, photos, comments, favorites, and more!

This powerful and very flexible module is also capable of much more. It brings to the table a robust set of front end member management tools and adds much more flexibility to the way your member management behaves. Send an automated custom welcome email to users once their registration is complete, Register new members via the front end, set the email address to be the username for logging into your site, Custom error pages… need we say more?!

Freedom is a good thing.

Read more at www.solspace.com
 

EE Plugin - Image Sizer

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ExpressionEngine Image Sizer 2.5.6

This ExpressionEngine plugin will resize any JPG GIF or PNG image to the desired size specified in your EE tag and cache the resized image to the cache folder. If you update the original image a new resized version will be created. If the image is not on the server the tag will not return anything. The general architecture of this plug-in is setup in a way that it only processes images when needed.
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EE Plugin - Randomizer Plus

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Randomizer Plus 1.02 third_party

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Author:
amor mio
Published:
Jul 26, 2007
Last Updated:
Dec 01, 2008
License:
Freeware
Categories:
Plugins  Output Text  
Allows you to show random content in your template. The “Plus” feature is that you can modify the random content in your template instead of in the plugin file, and can use any separator for the items.

Example Usage

You can use line break to seperate these random items, such as this:

{exp:randomizer_plus}
aaaa
bbbb
dddd
{
/exp:randomizer_plus}

or some other conditions, you may need a separator rather than line break,
then you can custom it by the parameter “separator”, as the example:

{exp:randomizer_plus separator=“|”}1|2|3|4{/exp:
randomizer_plus}

or

{exp:randomizer_plus separator=“{OR}”}
aaaa
bbbb
{OR}
dddd
{OR}
some text
or any content.
{/exp:randomizer_plus}

Notice: When you use custom separator, the line break will be treated as content of items.

Read more at expressionengine.com
 

EE Resource - Mark Huot

EE Tip - Live Preview with Coda

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Live Preview with Coda (and other IDEs)

As happens most of the time when the internet is all abuzz with some new tool, the release of Panic software’s new web development IDE, Coda prompted most of us here at EllisLab to download it and try it out.  Allow me to share with you a nifty gem that makes Coda and other applications like it (Dreamweaver, Freeway Pro, etc.) have a leg up on other workflows when working on ExpressionEngine based sites.

Les, the ever imaginative VeeP came to me with the suggestion yesterday, so credit goes to Mr. Camacho for the idea.  Unlike BBEdit and TextMate (and most other text editors), in Coda the live preview is based not on the contents of the text editor window, but on the remote file you are working on.  For those using templates saved as files, this opens up a pleasant trick.

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EE Docs - Date Variable Formatting

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ExpressionEngine User Guide

Date Variable Formatting

NOTE: Please note that these examples are to show how the date formatting codes are used in the format parameter that is used in a number of different ExpressionEngine variables.

Many of the tags you’ll use in your templates contain variables designed to display dates and times.  These variables can be formatted so that the date appears in a manner you wish. Here is an example of a typical “date type” tag:

{date format=”%F %d %Y”}

The “format” parameter enables you to format the date using the Date Formatting Codes listed below. Each code letter is always preceded by a percent sign.  The example above would be rendered like this:

January 15 2006

You are allowed to use any character you want within the format parameter, except a percent sign. For example, this:

{current_time format=”%D, %F %d, %Y - %g:%i:%s”}

Would be rendered like this:

Mon, January 15, 2006 - 10:23:45Read more at expressionengine.com
 

EE Tutorial - Dynamic CSS Highlighting

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Dynamic CSS Navigation Highlighting with Expression Engine

Here’s a little trick I’ve been using with Expression Engine to get my category menus to auto highlight.

<html>
<head>
<style type=”text/css”>
          
   #Nav #NavList{segment_3} {
       background-color: #eee;
       color: #3F7E86;
    }
</style>
</head>

<body>

<ul id=”Nav”>
{exp:weblog:categories weblog=”play” style=”linear”}
<li>
   <a href=”http://www.31three.com/” id=”NavListC{category_id}”>{category_name}</a>
</li>
{/exp:weblog:categories}
</ul> 
       
</body>
</html>

I’ve stripped it down to the minimum to make it easier to dissect. The two main things that you need to be looking at are the {segment_3} variable in the css and {category_id} in the id selector. The {segment_3} variable will get replaced with whatever is in the third segment of your url. So if we were to use the example url of…

http://www.31three.com/go/demo/category_highlight/C10

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EE Extension - LG Better Meta

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LG Better Meta v1.8.0 Improve your sites SEO with custom page titles, descriptions, robot meta tags, sitemap generator and more.

Surge up the search engine rankings with custom weblog entry meta and XML sitemaps.

LG Better Meta is only ExpressionEngine addon that allows you to optimise your weblog entries search engine meta data without setting up tedious custom fields and complicated templates. Easy to use and fully documented it’s the must have EE addon.

Only $49.95 $39.95 (holiday special) per license. Register to purchase!

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It’s never been easier or faster to create XML sitemaps and add SEO meta data (descriptions, page titles, geo, publish information & more) to your ExpressionEngine weblog entries. Using the beautiful UI and powerful customisation features, LG Better Meta will boost your SERPS (Search Engine Rankings).

LG Better Meta is a Multi-Site Manager compatible ExpressionEngine addon and comes in two parts, a simple to install extension and a plugin.

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EE Tutorial - Dynamic Titles

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