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.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
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.
14 Mar 2013
Best Practices
truncate Revisited: Cleaner Summaries for HTML Content
An extras-style note about a stronger truncate helper derived from the DocLister summary logic, with better handling of HTML content and parser-like text.
10 Mar 2013
Best Practices
Avoiding Duplicate Product URLs Across Multiple Categories
A catalog architecture note on handling products that appear in several categories without creating unnecessary duplicate URLs.
04 Mar 2013
Guides
Why DocLister Became the Natural Successor to Ditto and CatalogView
A historical extras article about the moment DocLister emerged as a cleaner and more scalable listing approach for Evolution CMS.
28 Feb 2013
Guides
Rendering a TV Row Only When the TV Has a Value
A neat manager-side pattern for putting conditional presentation directly into the TV configuration so templates stay cleaner and output only appears when the field is filled.
24 Feb 2013
Ecosystem
choiceTV: Reusing Existing TV Values or Adding a New One
An extras note about a custom TV input that combines a select field with the ability to add a new value on the fly.
22 Feb 2013
Best Practices
Why Strict URLs Can Break POST-Based Forms
A form-handling warning for legacy projects where URL normalization redirects interfere with POST data and silently break form processing.
21 Feb 2013
Best Practices
Understanding OnWebPagePrerender and Cached Output
A cache-debugging note for developers who expect OnWebPagePrerender changes to be frozen in the page cache but see output still changing on every request.
11 Feb 2013
Guides
Using jquery-timeago with Evolution CMS Dates
A lightweight frontend enhancement for showing relative publication times such as “5 minutes ago” using Evolution CMS date output and the jquery-timeago plugin.