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AlignImage: A Faster Gallery Helper for Large Image Sets
AlignImage came out of a real scaling problem: gallery logic that worked for a few images but broke down badly once the image count reached hundreds.
This old package note describes a familiar Evolution CMS problem: a gallery helper that behaves acceptably on small image sets but becomes far too slow once a real project loads hundreds of files.
What AlignImage was solving
The original workflow relied on image processing at render time, which became expensive on large galleries. AlignImage was positioned as a more practical approach for projects using FileDir and gallery-style image blocks.
Why it still matters
It is a good ecosystem example of performance-driven package design. The lesson still holds: gallery tooling must be evaluated against real content volume, not only demo-sized datasets.
Source: original community announcement.
Adding a Spoiler Button to TinyMCE in Evolution CMS
Small editor plugins like a spoiler button can have a big editorial impact when teams need reusable interactive content blocks without writing markup by hand.
Replacing PHx Modifiers with Lighter Template Helpers
PHx was powerful, but heavy. This donor captured the long-running push toward smaller, faster helper snippets around Evolution CMS templates.