01 Apr 2014
Guides
Making Infinite Scroll Work with Fancybox Galleries
How to keep Fancybox working after new images are appended to a page with infinite scroll.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
01 Apr 2014
Guides
Keeping Square Brackets Intact When Outputting TV Content
How to prevent array-like data from breaking when a TV contains square brackets and is rendered directly in a template.
31 Mar 2014
Guides
Switching Between Two WebLoginPE Registration Forms with Radio Buttons
How to offer two different WebLoginPE registration flows on one page and switch between them with radio buttons.
31 Mar 2014
Guides
Showing Protected Output Only to Logged-In Managers with a Tiny Snippet
A minimal Evolution snippet pattern for showing content only to authenticated manager users.
29 Mar 2014
Best Practices
Fixing a Blank Manager Editing Pane After Saving a Resource
What to check when the Evolution CMS manager turns white after save and the resource tree stops refreshing automatically.
28 Mar 2014
Best Practices
Why TinyMCE Can Insert Unexpected Tracking Code into Content
A troubleshooting guide for cases where TinyMCE appears to inject strange tracking placeholders or counter markup into content.
27 Mar 2014
Best Practices
Fixing phpThumbOf Installation Failures in Evolution CMS
How to diagnose package unpacking failures when phpThumbOf refuses to install in an Evolution CMS project.
27 Mar 2014
Best Practices
Troubleshooting PHPMailer SMTP Connections in Hosted Environments
How to debug PHPMailer SMTP connection failures by checking host, port, protocol, and network reachability instead of guessing at mail settings.
26 Mar 2014
Ecosystem
Using ElasticSearch with MODX Data: Indexing, Updating, and Bulk Import
The second practical ElasticSearch note: how to index records, update documents, and think about bulk import workflows when syncing MODX data into search storage.
25 Mar 2014
Ecosystem
Thinking Through Product Option Grids in miniShop2
A practical ecosystem-oriented note on product option grids in miniShop2 and why richer commerce data pushes teams toward more structured product models.
25 Mar 2014
Ecosystem
Bootstrap Generator: A Faster Way to Assemble Bootstrap and Font Awesome Layouts
A short ecosystem note on Bootstrap Generator and why layout tooling mattered when teams were assembling Bootstrap-based frontends for MODX projects.
20 Mar 2014
Guides
Creating Resources from eForm Submissions with docmanager
How to create a new Evolution CMS resource from an eForm submission by using docmanager and mapping both standard fields and TVs in one flow.
19 Mar 2014
Best Practices
Diagnosing dbapi.mysql Memory Exhaustion in the Evolution CMS Manager
How to approach “Allowed memory size exhausted” errors inside dbapi.mysql.class when the manager is loading too much data at once.
18 Mar 2014
Guides
Showing a Video Block in Ditto Only When the TV Has a YouTube ID
How to conditionally render a video block in Ditto listings when a video TV may be empty and the project needs safe fallback markup.
16 Mar 2014
Ecosystem
ddYMap 1.2: Better Defaults and Cleaner Map Integration
A release-oriented note on ddYMap 1.2 and the improvements it made to map defaults, jQuery integration, and document field handling.
14 Mar 2014
Guides
Formatting Price Output with parseTplChunk in Evolution CMS
How to format numeric price values before they reach a chunk by using parseTplChunk and a small normalization step in Evolution CMS.
13 Mar 2014
Ecosystem
Using ElasticSearch with MODX Data: Index Design and Mapping Basics
A practical introduction to using ElasticSearch with MODX data, including index creation, mappings, JSON handling, and why search structure matters from the start.
11 Mar 2014
Best Practices
Fixing TinyMCE Output That Adds Empty Paragraphs Around Lists
Why TinyMCE can produce extra empty paragraphs around lists and nested structures, and how to approach cleanup without breaking intentional markup.
09 Mar 2014
Guides
Building a “Recently Viewed Products” Snippet in Evolution CMS
How to track recently viewed products with session data in Evolution CMS and render a simple block of viewed items on product pages.
08 Mar 2014
Best Practices
Fixing AjaxSearch TV Queries That Reference Unknown Columns
How AjaxSearch can fail when TV-based search fields are referenced incorrectly, leading to SQL errors such as unknown columns in the HAVING clause.