15 Jan 2015
Best Practices
Generating sitemap.xml for Large Evolution CMS Sites Without Timing Out
What to do when sitemap generation times out on a large Evolution CMS site with tens of thousands of resources.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
15 Jan 2015
Guides
Keeping Active States Correct in Wayfinder Menus with Dropdowns
How to keep top-level and submenu active states consistent in a Wayfinder menu with nested dropdown markup.
08 Jan 2015
Best Practices
Choosing Between Real Cron and AJAX Cron in Evolution CMS
How to decide whether a scheduled task should run through system cron or an AJAX-triggered pseudo-cron approach in Evolution CMS.
05 Jan 2015
Ecosystem
Importing WordPress Content into Evolution CMS with evo-wpImport
Why a dedicated WordPress import helper mattered for Evolution CMS teams moving editorial content from another platform.
04 Jan 2015
Best Practices
Fixing Ditto Date Output That Falls Back to `-1` in Evolution CMS
Why Ditto can output -1 for dates and how to point the listing at the correct date source field.
29 Dec 2014
Best Practices
Avoiding Duplicate `page/1` Pagination URLs in Evolution CMS
Why `page/1` should not coexist with the base listing URL and how to keep paginated archives canonical in Evolution CMS.
29 Dec 2014
Guides
Building a Large Multi-Level Menu with Wayfinder and DocLister
How to combine Wayfinder and DocLister for large multi-level menus, and when DLBuildMenu is the cleaner replacement.
25 Dec 2014
Guides
Switching Shopkeeper Prices by Quantity with `OnSHKcalcTotalPrice`
How to swap between two TV-based prices in Shopkeeper depending on the ordered quantity.
19 Dec 2014
Best Practices
Fixing KCFinder Path and Permission Problems in Evolution CMS
A practical checklist for KCFinder when the file browser stops showing the right assets directory or fails on uploads.
17 Dec 2014
Best Practices
Fixing ajaxSubmit 500 Errors Caused by Missing Zend Files in Evolution CMS
How to diagnose ajaxSubmit 500 errors when the plugin fails because a Zend dependency is missing.
14 Dec 2014
Guides
Showing TV-Based Images in AjaxSearch Results with phpThumb
How to render TV-based images in AjaxSearch result templates and when phpThumb processing needs extra care.
11 Dec 2014
Best Practices
Avoiding Unwanted 404 Responses from `getDocumentObject()` in Evolution CMS
Why getDocumentObject can trigger a 404 flow when the document is missing, and how to guard custom logic against that behavior.
10 Dec 2014
Guides
Preselecting the Resource Template on New Document Creation in Evolution CMS
How to prefill the template field when opening the new document form in Evolution CMS.
06 Dec 2014
Best Practices
Fixing “Maximum Function Nesting Level Reached” in Evolution CMS Cache Sync
Why Evolution CMS can hit a maximum function nesting error during cache sync and what that usually means in local development.
05 Dec 2014
Guides
Filtering Ditto Listings with AJAX Category Selection in Evolution CMS
How to reload Ditto results through AJAX when the visitor changes a category selector, and what to watch for with pagination.
03 Dec 2014
Guides
Using Language-Specific TV Names in Multilingual Evolution CMS Projects
A practical approach to multilingual TV values using suffixed field names such as tvname_ru and tvname_en.
30 Nov 2014
Guides
Working with `documentObject` and TV Output Through the Evolution CMS API
A practical guide to reading core document fields and TV values through the Evolution API without losing track of where the data lives.
28 Nov 2014
Best Practices
Preventing evoSearch Memory Exhaustion on Large Evolution CMS Sites
Why evoSearch can exhaust memory on large sites and what to review before search traffic turns into a stability problem.
24 Nov 2014
Guides
Handling Multiple File Uploads in eForm for Evolution CMS
What to change when a single-file eForm workflow needs to accept several uploaded files in one submission.
23 Nov 2014
Guides
Querying Resources by TV Value with xPDO in Evolution CMS
How to join modTemplateVarResource and find resources by a specific TV value through an xPDO query.