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eFilter and the Shift Toward Automatic TV-Based Filtering
An ecosystem note on a filtering tool that tried to make TV-based product filtering more systematic and less hand-built.
TV-based filtering in Evolution CMS often starts with one-off snippets and slowly grows into a maintenance problem. eFilter mattered because it treated filtering as a reusable layer rather than a pile of per-project hacks.
Why it stood out
- It targeted automatic filtering over TV-backed product parameters.
- It aimed to work with richer parameter structures rather than only flat fields.
- It pushed Evo catalogs toward a more coherent filtering model.
Historically, tools like eFilter are important because they show how the ecosystem kept trying to turn repeated custom work into reusable patterns.
Source: Extras.Evolution snippet catalog.
Choosing an E-commerce Module for MODX Evolution
How to think through the choice of e-commerce tooling for MODX Evolution when integration needs, 1C sync, and catalog scale all affect the right answer.
Evolving the Extras Repository: What the Ecosystem Still Needed
A historical ecosystem note on how the Extras Evolution repository was growing and what gaps the community still wanted to close.