Installation¶

Follow these steps to install a plugin:

1. Download the plugin to your local computer. You’ll usually need to unzip the file.
2. Upload the plugin’s folder to your system/user/addons/ folder.

For instance, the No Follow plugin would be placed like so:

• system/user/addons/no_follow/pi.no_follow.php

Once the plugin is installed, you should be able to see it listed in the Add-on Manager in your ExpressionEngine Control Panel.

Basic Usage¶

Within your templates you’ll typically wrap the item you want affected by the plugin:

{exp:xml_encode}
        some content
{/exp:xml_encode}

In the above example, the content would be XML Encoded.

There is also a Markdown plugin where you can parse any content for Markdown syntax:

{exp:markdown}
        {title}
{/exp:markdown}

That’s if you already haven’t set Markdown as the Text Formatting option for the field.

Nested Plugins¶

It is possible to nest plugins in order for content to be affected by more than one plugin. For example, you can do this:

{exp:word_limit total="35"}
        {exp:xml_encode}
                some content
        {/exp:xml_encode}
{/exp:word_limit}

By default, ExpressionEngine will process the innermost plugin first, then the next plugin, and so on until all the plugins wrapping a given piece of content have been parsed. In the above example, the content is XML Encoded first and then the result of that is limited to 35 words.

Changing Parsing Order¶

You may change the parsing order and instruct ExpressionEngine to parse an outer plugin first. This is done by adding a parse=”inward” parameter to the plugin opening tag. Using that parameter will tell EE to parse that plugin before parsing any plugins inside of it:

parse="inward"

{exp:rss_parser url="https://ellislab.com/blog/rss-feed" limit="5" parse="inward"}
        {feed_items}
                <a href="{item_link}">{item_title}</a><br />
                {exp:word_limit total="20"}
                        {content}
                {/exp:word_limit}<br />
        {/feed_items}
{/exp:rss_parser}

{exp:rss_parser url="https://ellislab.com/blog/rss-feed" limit="5" parse="inward"}
        <ul>
        {feed_items}
                <li><a href="{item_link}">{item_title}</a><br />
                                {exp:word_limit total="35"}
                                        {exp:xml_encode}
                                                {content}
                                        {/exp:xml_encode}
                                {/exp:word_limit}
                        </li>
        {/feed_items}
        </ul>
{/exp:rss_parser}