Blog

Over 6 years ago, we started providing a few simple add-ons publicly. Over the course of that time we have grown to offer 20 different add-ons — many of which are complex — and have grown today to serve over 10,000 developers representing over 50,000 websites from around the world. I’d like to say THANK YOU to everyone that has purchased our software over this time!

ExpressionEngine 2.0 public beta was released 3 years ago on December 2nd, 2009, and ExpressionEngine 2.1.0, the first non-beta release, was released 2.5 years ago on July 12, 2010. Earlier this month, EllisLab retired ExpressionEngine 1.x into a legacy product, and it is no longer for sale.

With the recent release of ExpressionEngine 2.5.4, EE’s built in Cross Site Request Forgery protection (secure forms option) changed. This change affected many of our addons with submission forms.

This week we have put all of our language files on github so people can translate them and submit translations to be shared if they wish. Our own Nicolas Bottari has started the flow by making Freeform work in Canada (French language files added to github).

On November 1, 2012 we will be increasing the prices of all of our add-ons by an average of 30%.

Coded anew, from scratch, from the ground up, rethought and redesigned from top to bottom, Freeform 4 builds on a tool that has been indispensable to ExpressionEngine website development for years. Always has been free. Always will be. And now there's Freeform Pro when you need extra strength and flexibility.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Importer 2.1, which now includes full support for Pixel & Tonic’s Playa) and Matrix field types! This is a free upgrade to existing Importer 2.x license owners.

In this new world, if you want to do anything of reach and importance, you need a web developer. If you want it to be good, you need an ExpressionEngine web developer. This gives us (EE web developers) the power; power we are unaccustomed to. What are we going to do with it? How are we going to keep it in check? How are we going to retain it and show others how best to use it?