29 Oct 2014
Eliminating Duplicate `index.php?q=` URLs in Evolution CMS
How to remove duplicate friendly and index.php?q URL variants in Evolution CMS and keep one canonical address.
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27 Oct 2014
Fixing DocLister White Screens After Saving a Resource
How to troubleshoot the blank central pane that can appear after installing DocLister on certain Evolution builds and saving a resource.
19 Oct 2014
Fixing Empty Frontend Pages After Updating to Evolution 1.0.14-d6.16
What to check when an update appears successful but the site begins returning blank pages while the offline message still renders correctly.
18 Oct 2014
Planning Evolution CMS Catalogs for 10,000–20,000 Products
How to think about large-product-count architecture in Evolution CMS before the catalog outgrows ad hoc TVs, snippets, and one-server assumptions.
05 Oct 2014
Fixing Tree Editing Bugs When pagetitle Contains Quotes
Why quoted page titles can break resource editing in the document tree and what to audit in the manager-side escaping logic.
04 Oct 2014
Fixing TinyMCE When It Starts Inserting 4p> Instead of Paragraph Tags
How to reason about strange TinyMCE output corruption when paragraph tags are replaced with broken markup fragments.
30 Sep 2014
Fixing KCFinder File Links That Resolve to undefined/files/
Why TinyMCE and KCFinder can generate broken file URLs like undefined/files and what path assumption is usually wrong.
25 Sep 2014
Handling Upgrade Compatibility Issues from Evolution 1.0.5–1.0.12 to 1.0.14
How to approach the messy compatibility layer that appears after moving several older Evolution sites onto the 1.0.14 line.
23 Sep 2014
Fixing KCFinder “Unknown Error” Upload Failures in TinyMCE
What to check when image uploads in TinyMCE suddenly start failing with an unknown KCFinder error on an otherwise fresh Evolution install.
19 Sep 2014
Fixing Resource Editors That Stop Opening After a Hosting Migration
What to check when snippets, chunks, and templates still open in the manager but resources and configuration pages no longer do.
12 Sep 2014
Stopping Comment Spam When Hidden Fields No Longer Fool Bots
What to do when JotX spam starts getting through a hidden honeypot field and the comment form suddenly fills with junk submissions.
12 Sep 2014
Fixing Redirect Loops Triggered by Strange Query Parameters on the Home Page
How to diagnose home-page redirect loops that appear only for certain advertising or malformed query strings.
09 Sep 2014
Why Raw mail() Scripts Are a Bad Fit for Public Site Forms
A practical security review of simple POST-to-mail scripts and why public forms should use validation, throttling, and safer mail handling instead.
09 Sep 2014
Investigating site_url Poisoning Through HTTP_HOST Manipulation
What to do when `[(site_url)]` starts resolving to a foreign domain and the manager begins showing CSRF warnings after a host-header style attack.
08 Sep 2014
Fixing ImportX Encoding and Field-Mapping Errors on CSV Imports
How to troubleshoot ImportX when CSV files arrive with broken encoding, question marks, or field-mapping errors such as invalid pagetitle.
03 Sep 2014
Preparing Evolution CMS 1.1b Builds for PHP 5.5
What to expect when running older Evolution branches on PHP 5.5 and why deprecation warnings should be treated as a migration signal, not background noise.
02 Sep 2014
When title and H1 Should Not Be the Same
How to think about page title and visible H1 as related but separate fields instead of mirroring them blindly across the whole site.
02 Sep 2014
Fixing Mobile Template Switcher When the Home Page Uses the Wrong Template
Why Mobile Template Switcher can work on inner pages but fail on the home page and what part of the route resolution to check first.
25 Aug 2014
Adding Unique Meta Descriptions to tagLinks Pages
How to give generated tagLinks result pages unique descriptions instead of leaving all tag pages with the same generic metadata.
25 Aug 2014
Understanding the “System Files Were Modified” Warning After Moving a Site
What the configuration warning really means after a migration and how to tell a harmless path mismatch from a risky file change.