01 Jun 2014
Diagnosing Slow Page Loads on Large Evolution CMS Sites with Ditto and YAMS
How to reason about performance when a large multilingual Evolution CMS site becomes slow under heavy Ditto usage.
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Best Practices
Evergreen recommendations for architecture, security, performance, SEO, deployment, and content structure.
30 May 2014
Working Productively with Very Large Document Trees in Evolution CMS
Practical strategies for keeping large Evolution CMS sites manageable when the resource tree becomes overwhelming.
19 May 2014
Investigating a Hacked `site_url` That Redirects the Entire Site Elsewhere
How to investigate a compromised Evolution CMS site when the base URL begins pointing to a malicious or unknown domain.
17 May 2014
Fixing the “Delete Locks” Tool After Moving a Site to Another Host
What to check when the manager lock-cleanup action stops responding after a site migration.
15 May 2014
What an Intermittent Blank Resource Editor Usually Means in Evolution CMS
How to think about manager edit panes that periodically go blank and then recover later without any obvious action.
13 May 2014
Eliminating Duplicate Home-Page Variants Caused by Garbage Slash and Query Patterns
How to stop malformed slash-heavy and punctuation-heavy URLs from resolving to the home page and creating duplicate content.
09 May 2014
Fixing E_DEPRECATED Notice Errors After Upgrading from Evolution 1.0.12 to 1.0.13
How to interpret E_DEPRECATED constant errors and header warnings that appear immediately after an Evolution CMS upgrade.
08 May 2014
Fixing MultiTV SQL Errors After Upgrading an Older Evolution CMS Site
How to diagnose MultiTV SQL parse errors that appear after upgrading an older Evolution CMS installation.
30 Apr 2014
Fixing File Manager Paths That Resolve to undefined/files Instead of assets/files
How to debug broken manager file paths when non-admin users see undefined file manager roots after an update.
29 Apr 2014
Fixing Frontend Notice Errors That Appear Only While a Manager Is Logged In
How to diagnose frontend notice-level errors that show up only when an authenticated manager session is active.
25 Apr 2014
Keeping YAMS and Shopkeeper Working Together on Uncached Pages
Why multilingual Shopkeeper pages can behave differently before cache warmup and what to check when the cart disappears on alternate languages.
18 Apr 2014
Disabling Automatic Image Resize on Upload in Older Evolution CMS Builds
How to stop automatic image resizing during file manager uploads when upgrading the whole CMS is not an option.
17 Apr 2014
Diagnosing Slow Page Loads When Database Time Looks Fine
How to investigate slow site performance when database time is low but total page generation time is still unacceptably high.
13 Apr 2014
Fixing txNewsletters Encoding and Mail Delivery Problems on cp1251 Sites
What to check when txNewsletters works structurally but breaks on character encoding or refuses to deliver mail reliably.
10 Apr 2014
How to Verify That Caching Is Actually Working in Evolution CMS
A practical checklist for confirming whether cached snippets and cached page output are really being served in Evolution CMS.
10 Apr 2014
Speeding Up AjaxSearch on Large YAMS Sites with TV-Based Content
How to reduce AjaxSearch response time when a multilingual Evolution CMS site stores most searchable text in TVs.
07 Apr 2014
Fixing Blank Pages After Scheduled Unpublish Events with Cache Enabled
Why scheduled resource state changes can leave stale empty pages in cache and how to handle the cache layer correctly.
05 Apr 2014
Handling 502 Errors When MultiPhotos Uploads Large Batches of Images
How to debug batch image uploads in MultiPhotos when the server returns a 502 Bad Gateway error.
04 Apr 2014
Fixing Old URLs That Persist After Changing Resource Aliases
Why Evolution CMS can keep redirecting to stale aliases after a slug change and how to clear the right layers.
04 Apr 2014
Cleaning Up Script Injections That Appear Near the Closing HTML Tag
What to check when external malware scripts are injected near the end of public HTML output on Evolution CMS sites.