Expression Engine Tricks

Adding pages without messing up the template structure

1. Login to the staging admin
2. Create the new template group or template by name in the template manager
3. Save the empty template as a txt file (option in EE)
4. Use git to add the new file to the repo on staging
5. Push the repo up to GitHub
6. Pull down to your local machine
7. Edit the file from that point forward as normal

.gitignore for EE installs

.DS_Store

# Images
images/avatars/
images/captchas/
images/smileys/
images/member_photos/
images/signature_attachments/
images/pm_attachments/

# For security do not publish the following files
system/expressionengine/config/database.php
system/expressionengine/config/config.php

# Caches
sized/
thumbs/
_thumbs/
*/expressionengine/cache/*