Rob Allen

How To Create A Questions and Answers Page With Table of Contents (TOC)

So you need a page of questions and answers with an optional Table of Contents (TOC)? This could be used for a FAQ, LFAQ section, a help document, or a step by step guide to do something.

By Rob Allen

A Quick and Dirty Way To Reduce Spam When Using the Stock Email Form

Spam, the bane of everyones lives. Worst of all, clients get unhappy if their ExpressionEngine powered forms let endless spam through, and it can reflect on you the developer (rightly or wrongly). Try this method to reduce form spam.

By Rob Allen

Displaying the Most Popular Entries

How to display ExpressionEngine channels data based on how many times an entry has been viewed.

By Rob Allen

Email Form: Setting a Predefined Subject

Sometimes you want to have control over the email subject when it arrives in your inbox. Here's how.

By Rob Allen

A Consent Module Primer

This article will show you how to create a basic consent form, and how to deal with consents that are granted by your web site visitors.

By Rob Allen

How to style the first entry in a list differently

Here are several ways to style the first ExpressionEngine entry in a list differently.

By Rob Allen

Advanced Conditionals Primer and Commonly Used Examples

There are near limitless ways to use advanced conditionals so instead of trying to cover everything, this article deals with commonly used examples and patterns.

By Rob Allen

Show when your business is open or closed

Learn how to automatically display if your business is open or closed on your website.

By Rob Allen

How to create a flexible hero block

Create a flexible hero block for when a post doesn't have an image

By Rob Allen

A Primer On Simple Conditionals

This article is intended as a gentle introduction to ExpressionEngine conditionals with the aim of giving the reader an idea of how they work using real word examples.

By Rob Allen

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