Add-Ons¶

ExpressionEngine is the ultimate in flexibility, designed to be a platform for developers to easily extend to enable rich functionality. Like an operating system, it ships with a set of “apps” to cover the basic necessities right out of the box. We call those apps Add-Ons.

Have a need for RSS? Search? Comments? Install those packages, and you’ll have a whole new set of tools at your disposal.

And just like an OS, Add-Ons that don’t come included with ExpressionEngine can be added to bring even more functionality to the platform. ExpressionEngine was built on a CodeIgniter foundation and includes a robust developer API to enable rapid Add-on development, and a rich ecosystem filled with high-quality Add-Ons has grown up around it.

With Add-Ons available from EllisLab for download and third-party developers, you can construct a web publishing system tailored to fit the needs of the project at hand.