26 Nov 2013
Guides
Making Wayfinder Dropdown Templates Work with startId=0
How to reason about parentRowTpl, parentClass, and dropdown markup when Wayfinder builds a menu from the root of the site tree.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
26 Nov 2013
Best Practices
Choosing the Right 404 Page Strategy in MODX Projects
A practical note on custom 404 pages, error page IDs, and why routing-heavy sites need a deliberate not-found strategy.
25 Nov 2013
Ecosystem
Sending SMS from Evolution CMS with ByteHand
A short ecosystem overview of the ByteHand integration for sending SMS notifications from Evolution CMS or MODX Revolution workflows.
25 Nov 2013
Guides
Debugging eForm Report Templates That Render Wrong Data
How to diagnose cases where eForm receives a field value but the report template still renders it incorrectly or not at all.
24 Nov 2013
Guides
Using shk_widget radioimage Output Inside Ditto Templates
How to make Shopkeeper radioimage parameters render correctly when product cards are built through Ditto placeholders instead of direct TV tags.
22 Nov 2013
Guides
Building Previous and Next Navigation with DocLister
How to generate previous and next links from a DocLister result set when navigation should follow the same ordering as the listing itself.
20 Nov 2013
Guides
Understanding Checkbox TV Value Formats in Evolution CMS
A quick guide to how checkbox TVs store values and why frontend output often looks odd until the stored format is understood.
19 Nov 2013
Guides
Rendering Two JotX Blocks Without Output Conflicts
How to avoid collisions when a page needs more than one JotX block with different placeholders or output expectations.
18 Nov 2013
Guides
Building Resource Links Correctly in EvoGallery Templates
How to render gallery items so they link back to the correct resource instead of only exposing the raw image path.
18 Nov 2013
Best Practices
Fixing phpThumb shell_exec Errors on Restricted Hosts
How to interpret phpThumb shell_exec failures when the host does not allow the ImageMagick command lookup it expects.
18 Nov 2013
Guides
Replacing directResize with a Simpler Image Preview Flow
How to avoid heavy directResize usage by switching to a simpler preview workflow for editor-managed images.
17 Nov 2013
Best Practices
Normalizing Repeated Slashes in Evolution CMS URLs
How to handle URLs that arrive with repeated slashes and why redirecting or rejecting them should be done deliberately.
17 Nov 2013
Guides
Using TinyMCE Inside a Textarea TV Safely
How to approach textarea TVs enhanced with TinyMCE without making the editor experience fragile or inconsistent.
15 Nov 2013
Guides
Using Array-Style Input Names with eForm
What to watch when eForm fields use names like fio[0] or name[0] and the form still needs predictable processing.
14 Nov 2013
Guides
When Too Many TVs Become a Content Modeling Problem
How to recognize the point where a project has outgrown ad-hoc TVs and needs a more deliberate content model.
14 Nov 2013
Best Practices
Preventing Memory Exhaustion in Eletters Queues
What to check when Eletters or another mail queue process runs out of memory before finishing a batch.
13 Nov 2013
Ecosystem
CResource: A Faster Content Editing Concept for Evolution CMS
A concept note around CResource and related manager tooling ideas for faster structured editing in Evolution CMS.
13 Nov 2013
Guides
Bootstrapping the MODX API from an External PHP File
How to initialize the MODX API correctly from a standalone PHP script and why chunk calls fail when the bootstrap is incomplete.
11 Nov 2013
Guides
Keeping YAMS and WebLoginPE Working Together
What to check when YAMS and WebLoginPE start producing blank pages or unstable output on multilingual Evolution CMS projects.
08 Nov 2013
Ecosystem
Reordering Manager Tabs with settingTabMove
How the settingTabMove plugin adjusted tab order in the Evolution CMS manager and why that kind of editor-focused addon mattered.