03 Nov 2014
Guides
Saving Yandex Geocoder Coordinates into a TV in Evolution CMS
A reusable pattern for turning an address into Yandex coordinates and saving the result into a template variable.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
01 Nov 2014
Ecosystem
templatesEdit2: A Safer Successor to templatesEdit for Evolution CMS
Why templatesEdit2 appeared, what it improved over templatesEdit, and why it mattered for real Evolution CMS workflows.
29 Oct 2014
Best Practices
Eliminating Duplicate `index.php?q=` URLs in Evolution CMS
How to remove duplicate friendly and index.php?q URL variants in Evolution CMS and keep one canonical address.
27 Oct 2014
Best Practices
Fixing DocLister White Screens After Saving a Resource
How to troubleshoot the blank central pane that can appear after installing DocLister on certain Evolution builds and saving a resource.
26 Oct 2014
Ecosystem
Testing the MySQLi Extender Path for Evolution CMS
Why the MySQLi extender mattered as a practical maintenance step, and what teams needed to patch when moving away from older mysql functions.
20 Oct 2014
Guides
Keeping Ditto Summary Output Clean When News Starts with Images or Heavy HTML
How to make Ditto summaries behave when introtext begins with images or contains markup that should not leak into listing excerpts.
19 Oct 2014
Best Practices
Fixing Empty Frontend Pages After Updating to Evolution 1.0.14-d6.16
What to check when an update appears successful but the site begins returning blank pages while the offline message still renders correctly.
18 Oct 2014
Best Practices
Planning Evolution CMS Catalogs for 10,000–20,000 Products
How to think about large-product-count architecture in Evolution CMS before the catalog outgrows ad hoc TVs, snippets, and one-server assumptions.
18 Oct 2014
Guides
Adding a Custom Editing Form Inside the Resource Edit Screen
How to extend the Evolution resource editor with a custom form for related data without replacing the whole manager workflow.
16 Oct 2014
Ecosystem
CssJs: A Lighter CSS and JS Pipeline for Evolution CMS Projects
Why some teams prefer a smaller CSS/JS minification helper instead of a heavier all-in-one stack, and where that trade-off actually makes sense.
16 Oct 2014
Guides
Refining the Document Edit Form with ManagerManager Field Labels and Visibility Rules
How to use ManagerManager more deliberately so editors see clearer field names and a simpler document form instead of raw technical defaults.
11 Oct 2014
Guides
Choosing a Gallery and Slideshow Strategy for Evolution CMS
A practical overview of how to think about gallery and slideshow functionality in Evolution CMS instead of looking for one universal module.
10 Oct 2014
Ecosystem
Auto-Updating Chunk and TV References When Names Change
A practical plugin pattern for keeping chunk and TV references in sync when editors rename shared building blocks in Evolution CMS.
08 Oct 2014
Guides
Saving Uploaded Files on the Server While Emailing Only a Link in eForm
How to change an eForm workflow so uploaded files stay on the server and email notifications receive only a clean download link instead of the raw attachment.
08 Oct 2014
Guides
Building FAQ-Style Comment Threads in JotX with Moderator-Only Replies
How to shape JotX into an FAQ-like support flow where users ask questions and only moderators or administrators can post the threaded answers.
06 Oct 2014
Ecosystem
Working with Git on Evolution CMS Projects Without Breaking Live Sites
Why Git becomes essential on serious MODX and Evolution work, and how to introduce it without fighting the CMS lifecycle.
05 Oct 2014
Best Practices
Fixing Tree Editing Bugs When pagetitle Contains Quotes
Why quoted page titles can break resource editing in the document tree and what to audit in the manager-side escaping logic.
04 Oct 2014
Best Practices
Fixing TinyMCE When It Starts Inserting 4p> Instead of Paragraph Tags
How to reason about strange TinyMCE output corruption when paragraph tags are replaced with broken markup fragments.
30 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Fixing KCFinder File Links That Resolve to undefined/files/
Why TinyMCE and KCFinder can generate broken file URLs like undefined/files and what path assumption is usually wrong.
25 Sep 2014
Releases
MODX Evolution 1.1b-d7.0.16: Release Notes and Upgrade Context
A concise release post for the 1.1b-d7.0.16 build, with the focus on what changed and why the branch mattered to active Evolution users.