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.
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Release notes, extras updates, guides, videos, and practical Evolution CMS knowledge in one place.
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.
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.
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.