Detour is now Detour Pro!

Detour is City Zen's first public add-on developed for Expression Engine.  The idea was to create an add-on that would allow users to quickly and easily add 301 and 302 redirects without the hassle of an .htaccess file.  What started as a simple exercise in testing the Expression Engine add-on waters quickly grew into an exciting endeavor into commercial add-on development.

I'm sure some of you will be surprised that I have taken down the old free version of Detour so I wanted to offer an explaination as to why I made this choice.  As anyone that has developed software knows, there is a wonderful feeling knowing that people are using your code to solve problems.  When I released Detour, I didn't really expect much and was pleasantly surprised by the number of reponses I got both saying thank you and requesting support.  Realistically, I don't mind helping people out as long as I have the time, what I didn't have time for was actually refactoring some of the code behind Detour.

As time went on and I received more really good feature requests, I decided it was time to convert it from a basic extension to a module with features such as wildcards, wildcard and segment replacement, start date, expiration date, filtering of current detours, etc.  The main reason I decided to discontinue the free version isn't about anything more than the fact that the codebase has changed so much, I don't have time to maintain both versions.  

As always, feel free to contact me with any questions.  Don't forget to check out Detour Pro here!