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Working with Git on Evolution CMS Projects Without Breaking Live Sites
Why Git becomes essential on serious MODX and Evolution work, and how to introduce it without fighting the CMS lifecycle.
The bigger an Evolution CMS project gets, the harder it becomes to keep making live changes by hand. Templates, snippets, manager tweaks, and deployment timing all start to overlap. That is exactly where Git stops being optional and becomes normal project hygiene.
In CMS projects, the challenge is not only versioning files. It is deciding which parts belong in Git, which parts stay in the database, and how to move changes safely between environments.
A practical Git mindset for Evo
- version the filesystem code and templates that truly belong in files,
- avoid uncontrolled live edits on production,
- treat deployments as deliberate updates rather than manual hotfixes,
- keep database-driven content and file-driven code clearly separated.
For teams that keep evolving a project after launch, Git is not just a developer convenience. It is the thing that makes safe rollback, review, and parallel work possible.
The real win is not “using Git with MODX”. It is replacing fragile live surgery with a predictable delivery process.
Source: Evolution CMS on GitHub.
Auto-Updating Chunk and TV References When Names Change
A practical plugin pattern for keeping chunk and TV references in sync when editors rename shared building blocks in Evolution CMS.
Using fbInfo and vkInfo to Pull Public Social Profile Data
What simple social profile helper snippets can do well, and where to keep expectations realistic when pulling public data from external APIs.