24 Apr 2015
Best Practices
Fixing KCFinder Thumbnails That Stop Generating After a Site Move
How to restore KCFinder thumbnail generation in Evolution CMS after moving a site or switching hosting accounts.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
22 Apr 2015
Ecosystem
Understanding miniShop2 Email Template Placeholders for New Orders
An ecosystem note on miniShop2 email templates and why order fields do not always map to the placeholder name developers expect.
22 Apr 2015
Guides
Designing RU and EN Alias Structures for Multilingual Evolution CMS URLs
How to think about alias strategy for bilingual RU/EN sites so language prefixes and page aliases do not fight each other.
22 Apr 2015
Best Practices
Recognizing a Possible PHP Web Shell in an Evolution CMS Project
What to do when you find a suspicious PHP file that may be a web shell or trojan inside an Evolution CMS site.
21 Apr 2015
Guides
Making SimpleSearch Query TV Data in Evolution CMS
How to configure SimpleSearch so it can search not only pagetitle and core fields, but also TV data when needed.
18 Apr 2015
Guides
Building AJAX Search Result Panels with mSearch in Evolution CMS
How to wrap mSearch in an AJAX-driven result panel so search suggestions and paginated results update without a full page reload.
15 Apr 2015
Ecosystem
MobileTemplateSwitcher 1.4.1 for Evolution CMS: A Practical Mobile Routing Layer
An ecosystem note on MobileTemplateSwitcher 1.4.1 and the kinds of mobile detection and redirect control it brought to Evolution CMS.
13 Apr 2015
Guides
Rendering Ditto Pagination Outside the Listing Container in Evolution CMS
How to keep Ditto pagination placeholders working when the page links are rendered outside the main listing block.
07 Apr 2015
Ecosystem
Troubleshooting the Yandex.Money Module for Evolution CMS Under HTTPS
A practical ecosystem note on the Yandex.Money integration and the kinds of HTTPS confirmation problems teams hit in real projects.
03 Apr 2015
Best Practices
Fixing HTTPS Captcha and veriword Issues on Hosted Evolution CMS Sites
Why captcha or veriword assets can break under HTTPS on some hosts and how to debug mixed protocol or path assumptions.
02 Apr 2015
Guides
Adding Custom TinyMCE Buttons in Evolution CMS
How to extend TinyMCE with custom toolbar buttons in Evolution CMS instead of waiting for a perfect plugin to exist already.
02 Apr 2015
Guides
Bootstrapping the Evolution CMS API Inside a Standalone AJAX PHP File
How to initialize the Evolution CMS API inside a standalone PHP endpoint so AJAX handlers can reuse site configuration and core services.
31 Mar 2015
Guides
Calling Wayfinder Conditionally from the if Snippet in Evolution CMS
How to run Wayfinder only for selected parent sections by wrapping the call in the if snippet without breaking parsing.
31 Mar 2015
Best Practices
Fixing DBAPI Connection Failures When localhost and IP Behave Differently
Why DBAPI can fail under FastCGI when localhost and the server IP are resolved differently, and how to reason about that mismatch.
30 Mar 2015
Best Practices
Fixing AjaxSearch Breakage When FileSource Points to a Missing Snippet File
How a FileSource-based snippet workflow can break manager editing when the referenced AjaxSearch file no longer exists.
30 Mar 2015
Guides
Building Multi-Condition TV Filters with SQL Logic in Evolution CMS
How to express compound TV-based conditions when one TV controls the year and another controls the month or secondary bound.
30 Mar 2015
Guides
Importing Catalog Data from CSV into Shopkeeper with CatalogFill
A practical import pattern for moving spreadsheet catalog data from Excel-style CSV files into a Shopkeeper-backed Evolution CMS site.
29 Mar 2015
Guides
Filtering multiTV Data Correctly with evoFilter and DocLister
How comma-separated multiTV values can break filtering logic and what to normalize before evoFilter and DocLister use them.
29 Mar 2015
Guides
Building Video Search Result Cards with AjaxSearch and phpThumb in Evolution CMS
How to render richer video-oriented AjaxSearch results using TV-based thumbnails, dates, and view counters.
28 Mar 2015
Best Practices
Wrapping External Links in noindex and nofollow in Evolution CMS
A practical pattern for rewriting external links in rendered content so they receive noindex and nofollow treatment automatically.