28 Feb 2020
Best Practices
Keeping a Form Visible After Successful Submission in FormLister
Show the success message below a FormLister form without replacing the form itself after submit.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
28 Feb 2020
Best Practices
Preserving Checkbox Values in FormLister After Validation Errors
Keep FormLister checkbox selections intact when a form is re-rendered after validation errors.
26 Feb 2020
Guides
Counting Published Child Documents with DocLister in Evolution CMS
How to think about counting published child resources when rendering a section through DocLister.
24 Feb 2020
Guides
Uploading Multiple Images with FormLister During Resource Creation
How to structure multiple image uploads in FormLister when a frontend form needs to create content and keep uploaded files organized.
16 Feb 2020
Ecosystem
Dynamic Filter Configuration in mFilter2 for Auto-Synced Product Options
How to think about dynamic filter generation in mFilter2 when product options are created automatically from external syncs.
13 Feb 2020
Best Practices
Passwordless Login Patterns for Evolution CMS
A best-practices article on passwordless login ideas for Evolution CMS, using existing password-reset style flows as the practical base.
29 Jan 2020
Community
MODX Revolution and Evolution CMS: Two Products, One Philosophy
A community-oriented article about how MODX Revolution and Evolution CMS relate, differ, and still share part of the same philosophy.
27 Dec 2019
Best Practices
When phpThumb and Ad Blockers Break Image Previews
How to diagnose image previews disappearing because phpThumb-generated cache names trigger ad blockers, and what to change in thumbnail generation strategy.
19 Dec 2019
Guides
Choosing a Multilingual Strategy for an Evolution CMS 2.0 Project
A practical extras-oriented note about evaluating multilingual options for Evolution CMS 2.0 projects instead of assuming older solutions still fit unchanged.
19 Dec 2019
Guides
Creating a Registration Flow That Also Creates a Resource
A FormLister pattern where user registration also triggers the creation of a related content record or profile page as part of the same flow.
17 Dec 2019
Guides
Registering Web Users from a Company Dashboard with FormLister
Adapt FormLister registration flows for dashboards where one authenticated user creates other web users.
09 Dec 2019
Best Practices
Where to Configure Cache Storage in Evolution CMS
A quick guide to choosing and configuring the cache driver in Evolution CMS, including where the setting lives and when file, Redis, Memcached, or database cache makes sense.
03 Dec 2019
Community
Commerce Wishlist: What Teams Wanted from Evolution CMS Stores
A community editorial collecting practical wishlist items for improving the Evolution CMS commerce experience.
29 Nov 2019
Best Practices
Delaying Slow Snippets with AjaxSnippet
How to move a heavy snippet call out of the initial page render by wrapping it in an AjaxSnippet loader with a unique request id and a lightweight preloader.
26 Nov 2019
Guides
Creating Unpublished Review Resources with FormLister
A review workflow pattern where FormLister creates a resource from front-end feedback but keeps it unpublished for moderation.
25 Nov 2019
Releases
Evolution CMS 2.0.1: Fixes and DynamicRelation Support
A historical release note for Evolution CMS 2.0.1, focused on bug fixes and support for DynamicRelation in model work.
25 Nov 2019
Releases
Evolution CMS 2.0.1
Evolution CMS 2.0.1 is a maintenance release focused on manager usability and theme and interface polish.
25 Nov 2019
Best Practices
Why GET Parameters Disappear on the Home Page
A routing and redirect troubleshooting note for projects where GET parameters are stripped only on the site home page.
23 Nov 2019
Best Practices
Making Pagination Meta Tags Unique with DL Placeholders
A practical SEO note on appending page numbers to title and description fields for paginated listings in Evolution CMS.
23 Nov 2019
Guides
Simplifying Template-Specific TV Creation in Evolution CMS
An extras note about tools that make it easier to define template-specific TV sets when one layout needs different parameter groups for different product types.