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Dev Manager: A Tabbed Editing Module for Evolution CMS Developers
Dev Manager was built for developers first: tabbed editing, quick element actions, and a much more efficient workflow for working with templates and code in the manager.
Dev Manager was an explicitly developer-focused module for Evolution CMS. Instead of making content editing friendlier, it tried to make technical work inside the manager faster and less painful.
Main features
- tabbed editing for chunks, snippets, plugins, templates, TVs, and documents
- CodeMirror-powered syntax highlighting
- quick context-menu actions for element settings
- AJAX-based client-side interaction
Installation approach
The donor package was installed as a manager module from assets/modules/devmanager/, then bootstrapped through a small loader script.
Why it matters
This is exactly the kind of ecosystem work that shows how Evolution teams kept improving the authoring and coding experience around the CMS long before modern Evo 3 tooling.
Source: Manager category on Extras.Evolution.
DocSort: A Drag-and-Drop Sorting Module for Evolution CMS
DocSort focused on one useful manager task: making document reordering faster and more visual than manual menuindex edits.
Could XML-RPC Turn Evolution CMS into a Remote Publishing Backend?
This donor captured an interesting ecosystem idea: using XML-RPC to edit and publish Evolution content from external tools such as Sublime Text or mobile clients.