25 Mar 2013
Reordering menuindex Automatically Inside a Parent Resource
How to stop editors from manually renumbering menu positions one by one and design a safer bulk ordering workflow.
Blog Sections Open
Guides
Practical how-to articles, migration notes, implementation walkthroughs, and focused recipes.
24 Mar 2013
Using IF with Ditto Placeholders in Evolution CMS
Why IF conditions fail with Ditto placeholders and how to structure uncached output so pagination values are evaluated correctly.
22 Mar 2013
Restoring the Internal Link List in TinyMCE for Evolution CMS
Troubleshoot the missing internal link list in TinyMCE so editors can insert document links from the manager again.
21 Mar 2013
Looping Through Filled TV Fields Without Hard-Coding Every Attribute
A modeling pattern for product-like resources where only filled TV fields should appear in the output instead of a fixed hard-coded list.
20 Mar 2013
Accessing Template Placeholders from a Nested Snippet
A parser guide for cases where a snippet is called inside an item template and needs access to placeholders created by the outer listing snippet.
16 Mar 2013
Fixing Reflect Archives That Show January 1970 for pub_date
A practical archive-filtering note for Reflect and Ditto setups where publication-date archives accidentally generate an empty 1970 bucket.
04 Mar 2013
Why DocLister Became the Natural Successor to Ditto and CatalogView
A historical extras article about the moment DocLister emerged as a cleaner and more scalable listing approach for Evolution CMS.
28 Feb 2013
Rendering a TV Row Only When the TV Has a Value
A neat manager-side pattern for putting conditional presentation directly into the TV configuration so templates stay cleaner and output only appears when the field is filled.
11 Feb 2013
Using jquery-timeago with Evolution CMS Dates
A lightweight frontend enhancement for showing relative publication times such as “5 minutes ago” using Evolution CMS date output and the jquery-timeago plugin.
07 Feb 2013
Passing Parameters into Chunks with parseChunk in Evolution CMS
A reusable parser pattern for avoiding dozens of one-off helper snippets when you only need to inject values into a chunk template.
31 Jan 2013
Setting a Default Value for a Date TV in Evolution CMS
A guide to the common “current date by default” problem for Date TVs and why naïve @EVAL attempts often fail.
27 Jan 2013
Using a Resource List TV and Returning a Real Link Label
A TV configuration guide for choosing resources efficiently in the manager while still outputting a proper link label instead of only the numeric resource ID.
23 Jan 2013
Auto-Filling an Empty TV from the Parent Resource
A manager-save pattern for inheriting a TV value from the parent resource when the child field is left empty.
21 Jan 2013
Changing One TV Dynamically When Another TV Changes
A manager-side pattern for making one TV field react to another, useful when the second field depends on a section chosen in the first field.
02 Jan 2013
Always Stay: Keeping the Manager in Edit Mode After Save
A small manager plugin pattern that changes the default save behavior so editors stay on the current form instead of being bounced back to the list.
24 Dec 2012
Running the Evolution CMS Manager on a Subdomain
A deployment guide for placing the manager on a dedicated subdomain while keeping the frontend site and file structure stable.
22 Dec 2012
Using mm_ddMultipleFields Together with ddGetMultipleField
A short extras note about pairing mm_ddMultipleFields with ddGetMultipleField to manage and render structured repeated values in Evolution CMS.
19 Dec 2012
Adding the Ace Code Editor to the Evolution CMS Manager
An extras spotlight for integrating the Ace editor into the manager so templates, snippets, and chunks can be edited with a much better code-writing experience.
02 Dec 2012
Troubleshooting Document Links in the TinyMCE Link Dialog
A practical note for cases where the TinyMCE link picker in Evolution CMS shows the filesystem tree but misses expected fields such as resource search or anchor support.
28 Nov 2012
Fixing TinyMCE Unsaved-Changes Warnings in Evolution CMS
A useful manager fix for TinyMCE setups where editors were no longer warned about unsaved content before leaving the page.