03 Apr 2013
Best Practices
Fixing a 500 Error on the Manager Login While the Site Still Works
Troubleshoot manager-only 500 errors after migration when the public site still loads correctly in Evolution CMS.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
03 Apr 2013
Guides
Using IF to Output Placeholders in Evolution CMS
Understand how IF interacts with placeholders from snippets such as Ditto and form workflows in Evolution CMS.
02 Apr 2013
Guides
File-Based Theme Switching and Templating in MODX Evo
A practical way to separate presentation from database templates by loading theme files from the filesystem in Evolution CMS.
02 Apr 2013
Ecosystem
PHx 2.2.0 for Evolution CMS: Better Placeholders and PHP 5.3 Support
A concise overview of the PHx 2.2.0 improvements that mattered most in real Evolution CMS projects.
01 Apr 2013
Guides
smg: A Tiny Folder-Based Gallery Snippet for Evolution CMS
Build a simple gallery or slider from images stored in one folder without adding a TV field for every image.
01 Apr 2013
Best Practices
Escaping introtext Safely for Meta Description Output
How to avoid broken markup when introtext contains quotes and is reused inside a meta description field.
31 Mar 2013
Best Practices
Disabling SEO Strict URLs on Selected Pages
How to keep SEO Strict URLs enabled globally while excluding selected documents during development or storefront edge cases.
29 Mar 2013
Guides
Using Snippets Safely Inside eForm Templates
Understand when snippets inside eForm templates are parsed and how to avoid parser errors in older Evolution CMS projects.
29 Mar 2013
Best Practices
Why ResizeImageOnUpload Stops Working Intermittently
How to debug inconsistent ResizeImageOnUpload behavior when files upload but thumbnails are no longer processed.
27 Mar 2013
Best Practices
Diagnosing Slow Manager Loads in MODX Custom 1.0.9
A practical approach to isolating slow backend loading in a custom Evolution CMS build by comparing baseline installs and real projects.
25 Mar 2013
Guides
Reordering menuindex Automatically Inside a Parent Resource
How to stop editors from manually renumbering menu positions one by one and design a safer bulk ordering workflow.
24 Mar 2013
Best Practices
When the PHx replace Modifier Does Not Work
A practical way to debug PHx replace modifier failures in Evolution CMS when placeholder values are not transformed as expected.
24 Mar 2013
Guides
Using IF with Ditto Placeholders in Evolution CMS
Why IF conditions fail with Ditto placeholders and how to structure uncached output so pagination values are evaluated correctly.
23 Mar 2013
Best Practices
Fixing eForm Email Encoding Problems on PHP 5.3
How to diagnose garbled Cyrillic email output from eForm and separate encoding issues from transport issues.
22 Mar 2013
Guides
Restoring the Internal Link List in TinyMCE for Evolution CMS
Troubleshoot the missing internal link list in TinyMCE so editors can insert document links from the manager again.
22 Mar 2013
Best Practices
Rewriting Ditto Pagination Links Without Breaking the Query String
How to change Ditto pagination URLs in Evolution CMS while keeping the pagination parameter working correctly.
21 Mar 2013
Guides
Looping Through Filled TV Fields Without Hard-Coding Every Attribute
A modeling pattern for product-like resources where only filled TV fields should appear in the output instead of a fixed hard-coded list.
20 Mar 2013
Releases
MODX Evolution Returns with Version 1.0.9
A release-timeline post about the 2013 return of MODX Evolution with version 1.0.9, PHP 5.4 compatibility, parser improvements, and new tooling.
20 Mar 2013
Guides
Accessing Template Placeholders from a Nested Snippet
A parser guide for cases where a snippet is called inside an item template and needs access to placeholders created by the outer listing snippet.
16 Mar 2013
Guides
Fixing Reflect Archives That Show January 1970 for pub_date
A practical archive-filtering note for Reflect and Ditto setups where publication-date archives accidentally generate an empty 1970 bucket.