20 Jun 2012
Loading Child Documents into jQuery UI Tabs with Wayfinder in Evo 1.0.5
A historical guide for building tabbed interfaces by combining Wayfinder navigation with child-resource loading.
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Practical how-to articles, migration notes, implementation walkthroughs, and focused recipes.
11 May 2012
Speeding Up MultiPhotos Population with KCFinder Multi-Select
A practical gallery workflow improvement for bulk-filling MultiPhotos from KCFinder.
15 Apr 2012
SEO Titles and Meta Descriptions for Shopkeeper Products in External Tables
A practical SEO pattern for product pages when the catalog lives outside the normal document fields.
10 Mar 2012
Converting Shopkeeper Prices by Exchange Rate with OnSHKgetProductPrice
A historical Shopkeeper pattern for converting stored prices into storefront and cart values through an event hook.
10 Mar 2012
Google Translate TV Output in Evolution CMS: An Early Automation Idea
A historical experiment in automatically translating TV content through an external service.
05 Mar 2012
Passing the Current Ditto Resource into a Video Snippet
A Ditto scope lesson about passing the current resource id into a helper snippet that reads video TVs.
15 Feb 2012
Returning a Real 404 for Missing Shopkeeper Products in External Tables
A practical pattern for avoiding empty 200 pages when a requested product record does not exist.
15 Jan 2012
Showing Product Ratings and Vote Totals from Stored Fields in Evolution CMS
A practical pattern for calculating and displaying rating totals from stored review data.
20 Dec 2011
Formatting Unix TV Dates for Ditto Without Relying on PHx
A practical date-formatting pattern for TV values stored as Unix timestamps.
10 Dec 2011
Counting Child Resources for Ditto Output with a Small Evo Snippet
A lightweight pattern for calculating child counts and feeding them into listings.
15 Aug 2011
Building Positive and Negative Reviews with Jot in Evolution CMS
A historical review-pattern article about extending Jot beyond plain comments.
15 Feb 2011
Building Portfolio Galleries with EvoGallery, phpThumb, and ManagerManager
A practical pattern for portfolio-style sites that combined gallery output, image processing, and manager customization.
20 Dec 2010
Learning MODX Evolution from HTML Templates, Chunks, and Placeholders
A historical beginner article about thinking in Evo from plain HTML instead of theme packages.
10 Apr 2010
Showing a News-and-Articles Tab Layout on the Home Page with Ditto
A historical layout pattern for putting multiple Ditto-driven streams into a tabbed homepage block.
15 Mar 2010
Conditional Teaser Output in Ditto with TVs and PHx
A practical pattern for showing different teaser fragments depending on which TV values exist.
20 Jan 2010
Counting Jot Comments in Ditto with One Query
A performant way to show comment counts next to Ditto results without running Jot over every row.
18 Dec 2009
Keeping Ditto Pagination Placeholders Working When PHx Is Involved
A parser-order workaround for keeping Ditto pagination visible on PHx-driven pages.
05 Sep 2009
Using GetFile and IncludeFile for Faster Evo Template Development
A file-based development pattern for faster local work on templates and snippets in MODX Evolution.
20 Aug 2009
Getting Started with MODX Evolution for Real-World Business Sites
A historical beginner guide that framed where MODX Evolution fit best and how to start from plain HTML templates.
10 Aug 2009
Using the MODX File Browser Outside TinyMCE in Custom Modules
A practical developer guide for reusing the built-in MODX browser in custom manager forms and modules.