09 Jul 2013
Best Practices
When session-keepalive.php Starts Overloading Shared Hosting
How to investigate high CPU usage tied to session-keepalive.php and what to change before a host disables your Evolution CMS account.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
09 Jul 2013
Guides
Choosing a Product Filtering Strategy in Evolution CMS
A practical way to decide between TV-based filters, structured attribute storage, and hybrid catalog filters in Evolution CMS stores.
08 Jul 2013
Best Practices
Fixing WebLogin Sessions That Work Only After Clearing Cache
Why WebLogin or WebLoginPE may appear to work only after a cache clear, and what to check in session handling, cached resources, and login flow.
08 Jul 2013
Guides
Restoring Search-Term Highlighting After an AjaxSearch Result Click
Why AjaxSearch highlights the keyword in the results list but not on the destination page, and what to preserve so the target resource can still highlight the query.
07 Jul 2013
Guides
Making mm_requireFields Work with Dropdown TVs in ManagerManager
A small ManagerManager patch that lets mm_requireFields validate dropdown fields the same way it already validates text inputs and textareas.
07 Jul 2013
Best Practices
Speeding Up phpThumbOf in Evolution CMS
How to reduce slow first-byte times on phpThumbOf thumbnails by warming the cache, checking file I/O, and avoiding expensive image work on hot pages.
06 Jul 2013
Guides
Handling Multiple File Attachments in FormIt
If one attachment works but two break the whole form, the mail and upload pipeline probably still assumes a single-file field.
06 Jul 2013
Best Practices
Why KCFinder Shrinks Uploaded Images Unexpectedly
If KCFinder starts resizing uploads automatically, the issue is usually in its upload configuration rather than in the editor that opened the file browser.
05 Jul 2013
Best Practices
Migrating a Blog from Blogger to MODX Revo Without Losing SEO Signals
A blog migration succeeds when old URLs, social counters, and pagination behavior are mapped deliberately instead of being treated as cosmetic details.
05 Jul 2013
Guides
Showing the Latest Jot Comments Across the Site
A good recent-comments block needs more than a raw query — it needs truncation, links back to the article, and predictable formatting for old comment data.
05 Jul 2013
Best Practices
Keeping the Original URL Visible on a 404 in Evolution CMS
A good 404 should preserve the broken URL for the visitor and the logs, not rewrite the browser location to a static /404.html page unless that behavior is intentional.
05 Jul 2013
Guides
Using mFilter with Custom Resource Output
If mFilter builds the filter form but the listing comes from another snippet, the two sides need a shared understanding of the current result set and parameters.
04 Jul 2013
Guides
Redirecting to a Specific Resource with a Tiny Evolution CMS Snippet
Small redirect helpers are useful when a page should exist only as a routing entry point into the actual document tree.
04 Jul 2013
Community
MODXpo 2013 in Cologne: Planning the Trip Early
Conference announcements matter because they mark where the ecosystem is gathering, what topics are emerging, and which conversations are worth following.
02 Jul 2013
Best Practices
Why eForm Messages Can Disappear on the Home Page
If eForm validates and sends correctly on inner pages but not on the homepage, compare the homepage template and request flow before changing the form logic itself.
02 Jul 2013
Guides
Implementing Basic Visitor Geotargeting in a MODX Project
Geotargeting starts as a city-detection feature, but quickly becomes a content, cache, and fallback problem if the site depends on it heavily.
02 Jul 2013
Guides
Handling Multiple Prices for One Shopkeeper Product
When one product has several variants with separate prices and quantities, the cart model needs to represent the variant explicitly instead of treating the item as one flat product row.
02 Jul 2013
Guides
Disabling Email Activation in WebSignUp
If new users should start working immediately after signup, the registration flow has to switch from activation-first to trusted or moderated onboarding.
01 Jul 2013
Ecosystem
DocSort: A Drag-and-Drop Sorting Module for Evolution CMS
DocSort focused on one useful manager task: making document reordering faster and more visual than manual menuindex edits.
01 Jul 2013
Guides
Showing Recent JotX Comments from Selected Pages
A recent-comments block works best when the comment source scope is explicit — otherwise the widget can quietly fall back to comments from everywhere.