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June 14, 2012
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EE Good Practices & Techniques

Slides from a presentation at our Meetup group, EE PDX, on 06/13/12.

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Angie Herrera

June 14, 2012

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Transcript

  1. EE Best Practices & Techniques Good Angie Herrera // @angieherrera

    // [email protected]

  2. Base EE Install » Latest version » Essential add-ons »

    No content » No channels, fields, etc.

  3. File Structure

  4. Master Config » Multi-environment setup » Local, dev, staging, production

    » Avoid having to tweak config/db & path settings when deploying to different environments » Best to not use for MSM sites » By Erik Reagan / Focus Lab http://cl.ly/HMVC

  5. Learn it. Use it. Love it. Git

  6. Development Start Building! » Figure out content & URLs »

    Settle on a naming convention » Figure out member groups

  7. Development » Build, build, build » Don’t forget Git!!! »

    Understand basic performance issues – Simple vs. Advanced Conditionals – Snippets vs. Embeds – Parsing order – Caching (ahem: CE Cache)

  8. Upgrading EE

  9. Upgrading EE » BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP » Upgrade locally FIRST

    (be sure to have most current DB) » Upgrade add-ons before EE

  10. Upgrading EE

  11. Upgrading EE If it worked... If not...

  12. My Essential EE Add-ons IfElse

  13. My Essential EE Add-ons Switchee

  14. My Essential EE Add-ons Snippet Sync

  15. My Essential EE Add-ons CE Image

  16. My Essential EE Add-ons Wygwam

  17. My Essential EE Add-ons Matrix

  18. My Essential EE Add-ons Custom System Messages

  19. None