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.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
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.
23 Apr 2014
Guides
Creating Resources from eForm Submissions for Logged-In Users Only
How to combine eForm and docBuilder-style resource creation while restricting submission to authenticated web users.
22 Apr 2014
Guides
Sending Multiple File Attachments from a Form Workflow
How to think about multi-file email submissions when a form needs to send more than one uploaded file reliably.
22 Apr 2014
Guides
Choosing a Default YAMS Language from Visitor Geolocation
A practical approach for selecting the initial YAMS language based on visitor geography without overcomplicating the whole multilingual setup.
21 Apr 2014
Ecosystem
Extending the aDate Snippet for More Flexible Date Output
How the aDate snippet evolved to support richer date formatting patterns in Evolution CMS output templates.
21 Apr 2014
Ecosystem
shopModx1C: Early Integration Patterns Between shopModx and 1C
An early look at integrating shopModx with 1C for large product imports and future two-way synchronization.
18 Apr 2014
Best Practices
Disabling Automatic Image Resize on Upload in Older Evolution CMS Builds
How to stop automatic image resizing during file manager uploads when upgrading the whole CMS is not an option.
17 Apr 2014
Best Practices
Diagnosing Slow Page Loads When Database Time Looks Fine
How to investigate slow site performance when database time is low but total page generation time is still unacceptably high.
17 Apr 2014
Guides
Sorting getResources by Two TV Fields in a Predictable Order
How to think about multi-level sorting when a listing needs to order results by one TV and then by another.