Category Archives: HowTo

There are many different ways to create a shoutbox. (or Tagboard, or whatever you may want to call it. I call it a shoutbox because of DA) You can use a service like Zonkboard or a php script like tagboard. … Continue reading →

Because there are still some of you that are looking for a skinning tutorial, allow me to point you in the right way. domesticat’s skin tutorial is perhaps one of the most popular ones. Jules has more on this as … Continue reading →

Lynda has written up a great inline comments tutorial that you can use within your RSS 2.0 or index templates. This gives you the ability to view comments right there on the home page with an entry without having to … Continue reading →

Jules wanted a way to link directly to a comment using the Recent Comments tag, and this seemed to work just great: <a href=”{permalink=”weblog/comments”}#{comment_id}”>link to comment</a> The addition is the #{comment_id}. Because EE auto puts in an anchor tag using … Continue reading →

It’s not overly hard to put in a bunch of formatting buttons for your comments. By formatting buttons I mean buttons that will insert a bold, or italic tag. I’ve uploaded an example for you to take a look at. … Continue reading →

This is a pretty simple process. With the new ExpressionEngine PB2 release, you can easily allow your members to have a member avatar. I’ll explain how I did it here.

Rick has given instruction on exactly how to set up multiple subdomains (or domains for that matter) to point to other templates in your EE installation. Here’s the summary: This feature now works. We haven’t documented it yet but will … Continue reading →

Because I like to “showcase” my top commenters, I made a little box for those who comment the most. It’s a “top 5 list” of the people who have commented the most. Just insert this EE code where you want … Continue reading →