08 Dec 2013
Best Practices
Why AjaxSearch Can Trigger Too Many Redirects
A practical look at AjaxSearch setups that fall into redirect loops, especially when homepage or excluded-document logic is involved.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
07 Dec 2013
Best Practices
Fixing eForm onMailSent Callback Errors
How to debug eForm onMailSent hooks when the callback function looks correct but Evolution CMS still reports it as undefined.
06 Dec 2013
Guides
Handling Small Thumbnail Variants in Shopkeeper Product Cards
How to think about Shopkeeper product cards when the small thumbnail version does not behave like the full product image.
05 Dec 2013
Guides
Building Custom AjaxSearch Configurations for Filtered Listings
How to use a custom AjaxSearch configuration file when a project needs several coordinated filters instead of one plain text query.
05 Dec 2013
Guides
Updating TV Values from Shopkeeper During Frontend Events
How an OnSHKFrontendInit plugin can inspect cart data and update related TV values, and why this should be designed carefully.
04 Dec 2013
Guides
Using splitPagination to Reshape Ditto Page Links
How splitPagination can restyle and restructure standard Ditto pagination without rewriting the whole listing layer.
03 Dec 2013
Ecosystem
ElementsInTree: Bringing Content Elements into the Manager Tree
An ecosystem note on ElementsInTree and how manager-side tree events can be used to surface more than plain resources in Evolution CMS.
03 Dec 2013
Ecosystem
Integrating LiqPay Payments into an Evolution CMS Order Flow
A practical note on where LiqPay should connect into an Evolution CMS checkout flow and why order identifiers matter early.
01 Dec 2013
Ecosystem
evoBabel: A Different Multilingual Direction for Evolution CMS
An ecosystem overview of evoBabel as an alternative multilingual approach for Evolution CMS compared with classic YAMS-style setups.
01 Dec 2013
Best Practices
Using word-limit Safely with Ditto introtext Output
What to watch when word-limit or PHx-style truncation is applied to Ditto introtext fields that may already contain formatting.
29 Nov 2013
Best Practices
Fixing eForm Email Headers That Arrive as Base64 Gibberish
How to think about encoded eForm headers when messages arrive with unreadable subject or field labels in some mailbox setups.
28 Nov 2013
Guides
Sending HTML Cart Emails with eForm
How to configure eForm for HTML cart emails and inject item table markup into the final report message cleanly.
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.
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.