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.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
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.
28 Aug 2014
Guides
Applying a New Price Coefficient TV Across a Large Catalog
A practical way to introduce a new price coefficient TV across thousands of products without turning the manager into a manual editing nightmare.
27 Aug 2014
Guides
Outputting Raw JSON Without Letting the Evolution Parser Eat It
How to print JSON examples or JavaScript data blocks safely when Evolution syntax collides with double square brackets.
27 Aug 2014
Ecosystem
Choosing the Right Tool for Tables, CSV Imports, and Structured Data in Evolution CMS
How to think through database tables, CSV imports, and frontend output instead of forcing every structured dataset into plain resources.
26 Aug 2014
Guides
Planning a Separate Mobile Version Without Cloning the Whole Site
How to approach a dedicated mobile version in Evolution CMS without turning one project into two permanently diverging sites.
26 Aug 2014
Guides
Supporting Separate Retail and Wholesale Registration with WebLoginPE and Shopkeeper
A practical way to handle two registration paths and two price levels in one Evolution CMS store without duplicating the whole checkout system.
25 Aug 2014
Best Practices
Adding Unique Meta Descriptions to tagLinks Pages
How to give generated tagLinks result pages unique descriptions instead of leaving all tag pages with the same generic metadata.
25 Aug 2014
Best Practices
Understanding the “System Files Were Modified” Warning After Moving a Site
What the configuration warning really means after a migration and how to tell a harmless path mismatch from a risky file change.
22 Aug 2014
Guides
Making eForm Captcha Work Inside Toggled or Hidden Form Blocks
How to keep eForm validation and captcha behavior reliable when the form lives inside content that is initially hidden or toggled with JavaScript.