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  1. How We Upgraded a Family of ExpressionEngine Travel Sites

    By Travis Smith, February 16, 2026
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    Keeping your website updated isn’t just polite practice—it’s an essential act. Regular updates improve security, stability, and performance; they also tend to enhance the feature set and increase usability. You’ll reduce unplanned costs and the hard-to-measure frustrations that come from outdated software. For content-driven sites, an up-to-date CMS makes it easier to create, edit and manage content, so you can focus on serving your audience with less friction.

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  2. How to Use Deploybot with ExpressionEngine

    By Travis Smith, February 2, 2026
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    Deploybot and ExpressionEngine Logos are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here for informational purposes only.

    In this post, we’ll walk you through setting up DeployBot with ExpressionEngine—from Git integration and server configuration to branch mapping and deployment best practices—so you can achieve safer, more automated deployments with far less stress.

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  3. Modernizing ManageAssist: How We Boosted Performance and Usability with a WordPress Refresh

    By Travis Smith, January 19, 2026
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    When ManageAssist, a leading professional workforce training company, reached out to Hop Studios in 2021, they weren’t just looking for technical support—they wanted a true development partner who could help their WordPress website grow right alongside their business.

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  4. How to Easily Navigate Editing Your EE Site: Front-End Editing vs Hop Edit This

    By Travis Smith, January 5, 2026
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    Learn the difference between ExpressionEngine’s native front-end editing and Hop’s Edit This add-on—which is better to edit the content on your EE site

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  5. Longtime Collaboration, Lasting Results: Hop Studios & Oak Bay Softrends

    By Travis Smith, December 22, 2025
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    At Hop Studios, we build long-term partnerships with clients who share our passion for creating exceptional digital experiences. One of our favourite partnerships is with Oak Bay Softrends, a talented team of FileMaker developers and strategists based in Vancouver.

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  • Recent Blog Posts

    1. How We Upgraded a Family of ExpressionEngine Travel Sites
      February 16, 2026
    2. How to Use Deploybot with ExpressionEngine
      February 2, 2026
    3. Modernizing ManageAssist: How We Boosted Performance and Usability with a WordPress Refresh
      January 19, 2026
    4. How to Easily Navigate Editing Your EE Site: Front-End Editing vs Hop Edit This
      January 5, 2026
    5. Longtime Collaboration, Lasting Results: Hop Studios & Oak Bay Softrends
      December 22, 2025

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