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eeSiteKit is a framework to help you build ExpressionEngine-based CMS websites faster.

You’re provided a set of commonly used pre-coded functions, folders, and preset templating system (for categories, navigation, etc) for use with ExpressionEngine.

No EE Hacking

eeSiteKit however doesn’t use any custom PHP custom queries or hacks that break EE core functionality, so future versions of EE shouldn’t break your site. eeSiteKit is actively maintained, so if something does conflict a bit in future versions of EE, there will be updates and fixes provided quickly.

Style Your Site As Normal

Besides this, eeSiteKit also offers a light XHTML/CSS framework for laying out and customing page structure and styling quickly.

SEO Options For Your EE Site

eeSiteKit also includes many SEO-friendly options for page and category URLs and structure.

eeSiteKit Features


Here are just some of eeSiteKit’s features:

  • Compatible with ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 (Commercial, Personal and Core versions) as well as EE Multiple Site Manager
  • No add-ons required
  • Clean, logical, text-only, nested-page URLs (SEO friendly, works with the optional index.php or renamed index.php)
  • SEO friendly dynamic page titles
  • Landing pages are optional with each weblog (site sections)
  • Dynamic page navigation (including sub navigation, dropdown menus, breadcrumbs, etc)
  • Categories friendly (use EE’s category system but mask EE’s default category numbers, for example)
  • Dynamic category headings
  • Simple “keyword” search form code
  • Dynamically configured search results page
  • Simple blog-style comments and “tell-a-friend” forms
  • Well-organized template structure make editing and maintenance easy
  • Printer-friendly HTML template for easy printing of any page
  • Dynamically generated site map
  • 404 page templates with configurable alerts
  • EE Pages module integration for easy control over pages and page URLs
  • Renders valid and standards-compliant code (W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional, CSS 2.1, and Accessibility: 508-A and WCAG-1)

Full list of features

More Info

For a full overview of all eeSiteKit, check out the Overview section.

You can also take a look at the FAQ if you have other questions.

It seems that eeSiteKit will add a bit more loading and more queries than an EE site built the traditional way, but this may be worth it for all the functionality you gain.

I haven’t gotten a chance to look at eeSiteKit yet, but it looks like a great EE framework that will definitely speed up site development and easy website maintenance as well.

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