25 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Handling Upgrade Compatibility Issues from Evolution 1.0.5–1.0.12 to 1.0.14
How to approach the messy compatibility layer that appears after moving several older Evolution sites onto the 1.0.14 line.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
24 Sep 2014
Ecosystem
Using fbInfo and vkInfo to Pull Public Social Profile Data
What simple social profile helper snippets can do well, and where to keep expectations realistic when pulling public data from external APIs.
24 Sep 2014
Ecosystem
EasyPoll 0.3.4: Bringing a Lightweight Polling Tool Back to Evolution CMS
A short ecosystem note on the return of EasyPoll and why small focused audience tools still matter in Evolution CMS projects.
24 Sep 2014
Guides
Showing the Source Resource for Recent JotX Comments
How to make a latest-comments block show the linked source page clearly instead of leaving visitors with orphaned comment excerpts.
23 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Fixing KCFinder “Unknown Error” Upload Failures in TinyMCE
What to check when image uploads in TinyMCE suddenly start failing with an unknown KCFinder error on an otherwise fresh Evolution install.
19 Sep 2014
Guides
Making AjaxSearch Work Reliably with ajaxSearch=1 on a Single Page
How to reason about AjaxSearch when the normal mode works but the AJAX mode breaks on a page that needs live or asynchronous results.
19 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Fixing Resource Editors That Stop Opening After a Hosting Migration
What to check when snippets, chunks, and templates still open in the manager but resources and configuration pages no longer do.
18 Sep 2014
Guides
Troubleshooting Paykeeper When the “Proceed to Payment” Button Only Reloads the Page
How to diagnose a Paykeeper integration that refreshes the page instead of opening the payment flow in a Shopkeeper-based checkout.
15 Sep 2014
Guides
Working with addit_data in Shopkeeper Without Breaking Disabled Options
How to keep Shopkeeper extra option data stable when complex select logic, disabled values, and frontend scripts all need to cooperate.
12 Sep 2014
Guides
Inserting Promotional Blocks After Every Fourth Ditto Item
A clean way to place banners or promo blocks between Ditto results without breaking the structure of the listing.
12 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Stopping Comment Spam When Hidden Fields No Longer Fool Bots
What to do when JotX spam starts getting through a hidden honeypot field and the comment form suddenly fills with junk submissions.
12 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Fixing Redirect Loops Triggered by Strange Query Parameters on the Home Page
How to diagnose home-page redirect loops that appear only for certain advertising or malformed query strings.
11 Sep 2014
Guides
Validating Uploaded Image Size in eForm Before the File Reaches the Server
How to keep oversized image uploads out of an eForm workflow by validating file constraints before the upload becomes part of the submission.
09 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Why Raw mail() Scripts Are a Bad Fit for Public Site Forms
A practical security review of simple POST-to-mail scripts and why public forms should use validation, throttling, and safer mail handling instead.
09 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Investigating site_url Poisoning Through HTTP_HOST Manipulation
What to do when `[(site_url)]` starts resolving to a foreign domain and the manager begins showing CSRF warnings after a host-header style attack.
08 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Fixing ImportX Encoding and Field-Mapping Errors on CSV Imports
How to troubleshoot ImportX when CSV files arrive with broken encoding, question marks, or field-mapping errors such as invalid pagetitle.
03 Sep 2014
Ecosystem
Using AjaxifyEvo Without Leaving Meta Tags Stuck on the First Page
How to think about meta updates when using AJAX page transitions so the title, description, and Open Graph data stay aligned with the active document.
03 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Preparing Evolution CMS 1.1b Builds for PHP 5.5
What to expect when running older Evolution branches on PHP 5.5 and why deprecation warnings should be treated as a migration signal, not background noise.
02 Sep 2014
Best Practices
When title and H1 Should Not Be the Same
How to think about page title and visible H1 as related but separate fields instead of mirroring them blindly across the whole site.
02 Sep 2014
Best Practices
Fixing Mobile Template Switcher When the Home Page Uses the Wrong Template
Why Mobile Template Switcher can work on inner pages but fail on the home page and what part of the route resolution to check first.