15 May 2014
Best Practices
What an Intermittent Blank Resource Editor Usually Means in Evolution CMS
How to think about manager edit panes that periodically go blank and then recover later without any obvious action.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
15 May 2014
Guides
Implementing Quantity-Based Discounts Per Product in Shopkeeper
How to model product-specific quantity discounts when each item should change price based on how many units of that same product are in the cart.
14 May 2014
Guides
Why getResources Can Keep Outputting Fields from the Current Page Instead of the Requested Resource
How to avoid template-field confusion when getResources is asked to render data from a specific resource.
13 May 2014
Best Practices
Eliminating Duplicate Home-Page Variants Caused by Garbage Slash and Query Patterns
How to stop malformed slash-heavy and punctuation-heavy URLs from resolving to the home page and creating duplicate content.
10 May 2014
Guides
Why a PHx Condition Can Fail Even When the Placeholder Value Looks Correct
How to debug PHx conditional output when a placeholder visibly contains the expected value but the branch still does not match.
09 May 2014
Best Practices
Fixing E_DEPRECATED Notice Errors After Upgrading from Evolution 1.0.12 to 1.0.13
How to interpret E_DEPRECATED constant errors and header warnings that appear immediately after an Evolution CMS upgrade.
08 May 2014
Ecosystem
Why resource.php Broke After Updating to Evolution CMS 1.0.13
A compatibility note on older resource helper libraries that stopped saving documents correctly after upgrading to 1.0.13.
08 May 2014
Best Practices
Fixing MultiTV SQL Errors After Upgrading an Older Evolution CMS Site
How to diagnose MultiTV SQL parse errors that appear after upgrading an older Evolution CMS installation.
07 May 2014
Guides
Ordering News by the Right Dates When Resources Were Created in Bulk
How to restore meaningful chronology in a news section after many resources were created on the same day.
06 May 2014
Guides
Adding a YouTube Button to the Full TinyMCE Toolbar in Evolution CMS
How to make a custom TinyMCE plugin button appear in the full toolbar preset instead of only the individual editor configuration.
06 May 2014
Guides
Submitting a Custom Modal Form with ajaxSubmit Without Losing Server Validation
How to keep a custom form inside a modal and still preserve real server-side validation and response handling with ajaxSubmit.
01 May 2014
Guides
Rendering Chunks Reliably from Within Template-Driven Workflows
A practical way to think about chunk rendering when template-level composition starts to outgrow simple parseChunk calls.
30 Apr 2014
Guides
Parsing a Template Through the Evolution CMS API Before Output
How to load and parse a template through the API when you need the rendered result before the normal page output stage.
30 Apr 2014
Best Practices
Fixing File Manager Paths That Resolve to undefined/files Instead of assets/files
How to debug broken manager file paths when non-admin users see undefined file manager roots after an update.
29 Apr 2014
Best Practices
Fixing Frontend Notice Errors That Appear Only While a Manager Is Logged In
How to diagnose frontend notice-level errors that show up only when an authenticated manager session is active.
28 Apr 2014
Guides
Building Multiple Independent Filters on One Page with Ditto
How to design several filters on one page when a single autoFilter instance is not enough for the listing experience you need.
25 Apr 2014
Best Practices
Keeping YAMS and Shopkeeper Working Together on Uncached Pages
Why multilingual Shopkeeper pages can behave differently before cache warmup and what to check when the cart disappears on alternate languages.
25 Apr 2014
Guides
Planning Product Exports for Yandex Market from Evolution CMS
A practical overview of what an Evolution CMS project needs before exporting catalog data to Yandex Market.
24 Apr 2014
Guides
Applying Watermarks Automatically During Image Uploads with KCFinder Events
How to hook into the upload flow and apply watermarks automatically when images enter the system.
24 Apr 2014
Guides
Using Contextual Internal Links to Build Wikipedia-Style Cross-Linking
How to approach contextual internal linking in Evolution CMS when you want automatic cross-links inside long-form content.