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Scenario: When viewing a single entry, you would like to display the most recent entries on the side, excluding the currently viewed entry. By default, ExpressionEngine doesn't have a special function or parameter for it. However, there's a very simple way to add this feature; by creating a global variable and using it as a weblog parameter value.

We start by creating a new global variable and assigning it to the template we use to render our single entries.

1. {assign_variable:current_entry="{segment_3}"}

What we've done: we have created a…

When it comes to designing web sites for clients, one of the things we ask ourselves first is how we can develop a required feature in the most simple and intuitive way possible. Some clients have their web sites maintained by professionals while other clients prefer to maintain their web site autonomically. In the latter case, it is crucial that a client can create content in such a way as to not interfere with anything that requires technical know-how. An example is one of my latest clients; the client wants…

There are indeed are variety of means by which you can highlight a menu item of the current page you're on. One way would be to use ExpressionEngine's embedded template functionality which is very sophisticated. The downside in my view is that you have to — as the name implies &mdash embed a template which may not always be the optimal solution, depending on your amount of embedded templates and your general structure preferences. I usually try to not use too many embedded templates in order to allow for…

I've been contacted by a few readers that neither my Atom feed nor my RSS feed were working. This is truly embarassing, I must admit to my shame. The past few weeks have been explosive (in a good way) and I've had little time to write articles and such due to the simple fact that I'm currently overwhelmed with client work.

There has also been quite a good amount of spam that paved its way through my comments and thus affected my readers as they received those wonderfully precise and…

Whether you’re a high-school or University graduate, there’s one thing our mentors have tried to impregnate into our brains as a vital tool to comprehend and memorise the information we are taking in; making notes of what we read, see, and hear. Granted, to some it may seem redundant or far too time-consuming to engage in exhaustive documentation of one’s reading and learning material. And there are indeed areas of learning where you don’t need it.

If I do it with Books, why not do it with Websites?

What…