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What Power Users Would Still Simplify in the Evolution CMS Manager
A reflection on which manager functions felt unnecessary or overly heavy, and why backend simplification was an important part of long-term Evolution CMS usability.
Whenever teams start cleaning up a CMS backend, the same question appears: which manager features genuinely help daily work, and which ones only add visual or cognitive weight? That question mattered in Evolution CMS too, especially for projects where the manager had become crowded with features few editors actually used.
This article reframes that discussion as a product question: removing friction is often more valuable than adding another control. Cleaner manager workflows tend to improve editorial speed, reduce mistakes, and make training easier.
Source: Manager category on Extras.Evolution.
Which Extras Belonged in the First Evolution Repository?
An early ecosystem discussion about what the Evolution package repository should include first and how priorities shape a healthy extras surface.
Rethinking System Settings for More Editable Projects
A cleaner approach to site-specific system variables that avoids writing one-off plugins for every small editable setting.