bybjorn.com | Bjørn Børresen – freelance web developer

For those who don’t quite understand the title; Automattic is the company behind the world’s favourite blogging engine1 – WordPress, and EllisLab are creators of fine products such as CodeIgniter – and, the commercial CMS ExpressionEngine. Now that you have the basics, the title will make sense later. MacDailyNews moves from EE to WP The [...]

Today cityzenllc asked a question on Twitter about setting up EE w/subdomains. The “Basecamp Style Subdomains With CodeIgniter” over at NetTuts was tweeted and retweeted all over the place, or maybe just twice, but anyway – this is supereasy in EE, and can be done by adding just a couple of lines to index.php: if($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] [...]

I just pushed a new version of SEO Lite to github and it has some added goodies, among other things these parameters: Parameters url_title; retrieve by url_title (often found as a url segment) entry_id; retrieve by entry_id use_last_segment = ‘yes’; pure magic! (it will use the last segment, this is useful if you have the [...]

A while back I released DevKit for ExpressionEngine using the module “SEO Lite” as an example. Now this module is ready for download! Click here to download SEO Lite Full documentation: SEO Lite documentation A SEO module for ExpressionEngine – what does it do? Sure you could add custom fields for this kind of meta [...]

There’s probably a lot of good reasons to go with WordPress, but if you’re a single developer ExpressionEngine might be worth considering. Please allow me to present (*drum roll*) “The Top 10 Reasons The EE Community Is A Better Place To Be For A Single Developer / Entrepreneur” 1. You Don’t Have To Worry About [...]

I’ve spent the last 8 months developing modules (and templates) for EE 2.0. Pretty early I got annoyed by some of the redundant manual tasks I had to do over and over again .. so I started creating some addons to help me out. Now I’ve bundled (some of that) functionality in this thing I’ve [...]

Themes have moved   Please note that these themes have now moved to ThemeForest, you can find them here: http://bit.ly/eFFMKs Ok, I’m kind of busy these days so I haven’t got time for the most elaborate posts — but anyway, as some of you might know I’ve teamed up with WooThemes to create theme packages [...]

Ok, this post had some info about switching to ExpressionEngine since WP was so insecure. It turns out my WP install was hacked and the content here was replaced by lots of spam links. I don’t know how to get the content back (unless it was indexed somewhere, took a quick google but didn’t find [...]

When I wanted the skitX blog converted from Serendipity to ExpressionEngine I asked around for an MT Export script for s9y. There was none, so I decided to create it for myself. For those of you who don’t know, MT stands for Movable Type and is SixApart‘s blogsystem. It’s a pretty simple plain-text format which [...]

This will describe how I converted my norwegian webmaster forum which ran the SimpleMachines forum software to ExpressionEngine with the forum module installed. The SMF_Import module I’ve created can be used to import both users and forum messages to EE, or just the users if you only want to import these.