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The Top 6 Gotchas When Upgrading ExpressionEngine

With tax season over, We’re now back to just one constant in life: Issues come up when upgrading ExpressionEngine.  Many problems turn out to be a case of skipping a step in the documentation, but sometimes things go awry for other odd reasons. Here are my top 6 ExpressionEngine upgrade…

Hop Studios on a Short Holiday

With so many U.S. and Canadian clients, there are few holidays that we truly can enjoy, but tomorrow, Good Friday, is one of them.

See you all on Monday!

One Way to Improve EE’s Performance

I was working with a client’s ExpressionEngine site this week, one that was having troubles with traffic growth, large traffic spikes, and the database server going down frequently at peak times.

I came up with a partial solution that seems to have helped quite a bit, and might be…

Upgrading from ExpressionEngine 1.x to 2.x

I have upgraded six client sites from EE 1.7.1 to 2.3 or 2.4 in the few months, and in all cases we have had to rewrite code (EE or PHP), remove or change existing functionality, or have had to work with the folks at EllisLab to get the upgrades to complete. The good news is—we’re pretty…

Rose’s Heavenly Cakes, One of the First Kindle eBooks to Have Interactive Media

A few days ago, whilst reviewing a video that our favorite client, Rose Levy Beranbaum (realbakingwithrose.com) had put up on her YouTube channel, I found out that her book “Rose’s Heavenly Cakes” was the first Kindle ebook published with embedded media. Exclusively on iOS devices, Rose’s…