18 Nov 2012
Guides
Adding First and Last Links to Ditto Pagination
A small pagination enhancement that made long Ditto listings easier to navigate.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
01 Nov 2012
Guides
SEO-Friendly Pagination URLs for Ditto
A historical plugin pattern for turning `?start=` links into cleaner `/page/N` pagination in Evo.
15 Oct 2012
Best Practices
Choosing the Right Date Field for Sorting Resources in Evolution CMS
A clear best-practices article about why `createdon`, `publishedon`, and `pub_date` are not interchangeable.
03 Oct 2012
Best Practices
Hardening PHx: Placeholder Cleanup and Safer then/else Parsing
A technical PHx article about safer placeholder cleanup and avoiding premature parsing of then/else branches.
01 Oct 2012
Guides
Building Two Independent Menus on One Page with Wayfinder
A reusable menu pattern for pages that need two separate navigation groups at once.
22 Sep 2012
Best Practices
Fixing TinyMCE Upload Errors After a Hosting Move by Correcting MODX_BASE_PATH
A migration-related TinyMCE upload failure caused by a broken base path after moving an Evolution CMS site.
10 Sep 2012
Best Practices
Using Sphinx Search with MODX Evolution for Better Full-Text Search
A historical performance article about moving beyond AjaxSearch for serious relevance and speed.
06 Aug 2012
Extras
sgOut: A Portfolio Module for Designers and Frontend Teams on Evolution CMS
A historical portfolio-oriented package that combined a manager module and a frontend output snippet.
14 Jul 2012
Guides
Expanding a Third Menu Level Only for the Active Wayfinder Branch
A menu-architecture pattern for showing a third level only inside the active Wayfinder branch.
01 Jul 2012
Best Practices
Cleaning Up a Mass-Mailing Compromise on MODX Evolution 1.0.5
A historical security incident post about malicious mailer uploads inside an old Evo installation.
20 Jun 2012
Guides
Loading Child Documents into jQuery UI Tabs with Wayfinder in Evo 1.0.5
A historical guide for building tabbed interfaces by combining Wayfinder navigation with child-resource loading.
11 May 2012
Guides
Speeding Up MultiPhotos Population with KCFinder Multi-Select
A practical gallery workflow improvement for bulk-filling MultiPhotos from KCFinder.
15 Apr 2012
Guides
SEO Titles and Meta Descriptions for Shopkeeper Products in External Tables
A practical SEO pattern for product pages when the catalog lives outside the normal document fields.
10 Mar 2012
Guides
Converting Shopkeeper Prices by Exchange Rate with OnSHKgetProductPrice
A historical Shopkeeper pattern for converting stored prices into storefront and cart values through an event hook.
10 Mar 2012
Guides
Google Translate TV Output in Evolution CMS: An Early Automation Idea
A historical experiment in automatically translating TV content through an external service.
05 Mar 2012
Guides
Passing the Current Ditto Resource into a Video Snippet
A Ditto scope lesson about passing the current resource id into a helper snippet that reads video TVs.
15 Feb 2012
Guides
Returning a Real 404 for Missing Shopkeeper Products in External Tables
A practical pattern for avoiding empty 200 pages when a requested product record does not exist.
15 Jan 2012
Guides
Showing Product Ratings and Vote Totals from Stored Fields in Evolution CMS
A practical pattern for calculating and displaying rating totals from stored review data.
20 Dec 2011
Guides
Formatting Unix TV Dates for Ditto Without Relying on PHx
A practical date-formatting pattern for TV values stored as Unix timestamps.
10 Dec 2011
Guides
Counting Child Resources for Ditto Output with a Small Evo Snippet
A lightweight pattern for calculating child counts and feeding them into listings.