09 Oct 2011
Extras
InnovaStudio WYSIWYG Editor for Evolution CMS: A Different Editing Path
A historical ecosystem note about replacing or upgrading the editor layer beyond TinyMCE.
Blog Sections Open
Blog
Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
15 Aug 2011
Guides
Building Positive and Negative Reviews with Jot in Evolution CMS
A historical review-pattern article about extending Jot beyond plain comments.
10 Apr 2011
Best Practices
Path Disclosure and Shell Uploads: Why “Not Critical” Still Matters on Old Evo Sites
A practical security reminder about path disclosure, uploaded shells, and layered risk on older hosting setups.
10 Mar 2011
Best Practices
Caching Dynamic Snippets in Evolution CMS Without Losing Dynamic Output
A historical best-practices article about isolating dynamic regions while keeping page caching effective.
02 Mar 2011
Best Practices
Sanitizing Stored TV IDs Before getDocuments Queries in Evolution CMS
A defensive API fix for avoiding SQL errors when malformed TV values are passed into getDocuments.
18 Feb 2011
Best Practices
Measuring CacheAccelerator Gains on News Pages with Heavy Ditto and Jot Usage
A historical performance note about where page-level caching helps and where Jot-heavy pages still need structural optimization.
15 Feb 2011
Guides
Building Portfolio Galleries with EvoGallery, phpThumb, and ManagerManager
A practical pattern for portfolio-style sites that combined gallery output, image processing, and manager customization.
20 Jan 2011
Extras
Shopkeeper 1.0 and the Shift Toward a Separate Product Table
A historical look at why Shopkeeper 1.0 mattered for larger catalogs and more serious ecommerce structures.
20 Dec 2010
Guides
Learning MODX Evolution from HTML Templates, Chunks, and Placeholders
A historical beginner article about thinking in Evo from plain HTML instead of theme packages.
15 Oct 2010
Best Practices
Keeping Jot Placeholders Working on Cached Pages
A historical workaround for keeping Jot output alive even when the page itself remains cached.
15 Jun 2010
Extras
JotAdminNotify: Showing Unmoderated Comment Counts in the Manager
A tiny manager enhancement that surfaced pending Jot moderation work on the dashboard.
10 Apr 2010
Guides
Showing a News-and-Articles Tab Layout on the Home Page with Ditto
A historical layout pattern for putting multiple Ditto-driven streams into a tabbed homepage block.
15 Mar 2010
Guides
Conditional Teaser Output in Ditto with TVs and PHx
A practical pattern for showing different teaser fragments depending on which TV values exist.
05 Feb 2010
Ecosystem
A Small PHx Declension Helper for Comment Counts and Similar UI Labels
A tiny utility pattern for Russian plural endings that paired naturally with PHx placeholders.
20 Jan 2010
Guides
Counting Jot Comments in Ditto with One Query
A performant way to show comment counts next to Ditto results without running Jot over every row.
18 Dec 2009
Guides
Keeping Ditto Pagination Placeholders Working When PHx Is Involved
A parser-order workaround for keeping Ditto pagination visible on PHx-driven pages.
12 Nov 2009
Extras
DirectResizeLite: A Simpler Highslide-Friendly Image Resizer for Evolution CMS
A historical image-resizing extra that simplified Highslide-friendly thumbnail output for Evolution CMS.
21 Oct 2009
Releases
MODX Evolution 1.0.1: Security, Transalias, and Better Manager Defaults
A release recap for the early Evolution 1.0.1 update and the practical improvements that followed the first 1.0 launch.
05 Oct 2009
Best Practices
Understanding siteCache.idx.php and Evolution CMS Cache Internals
A deeper historical look at how the Evo cache index works and why it could become a performance bottleneck.
15 Sep 2009
Extras
ManagerManager for Evolution 1.0: Why the 0.4 Era Mattered
A historical ecosystem marker for the ManagerManager wave that aligned the package with Evolution 1.0.