EE Good Practices & Techniques

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

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1. EE Best Practices & Techniques Good Angie Herrera // @angieherrera // angie@420creative.com
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