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Building Portfolio Galleries with EvoGallery, phpThumb, and ManagerManager
A practical pattern for portfolio-style sites that combined gallery output, image processing, and manager customization.
Portfolio sites were always a common use case for Evolution, but the platform never had one single “official” solution for them. This article captures one of the pragmatic combinations that teams actually used: EvoGallery for image organization, phpThumb for derived images, and ManagerManager for cleaner editing.
Why the combination worked
- EvoGallery handled image collections in a way close to real content trees
- phpThumb helped generate the right display sizes
- ManagerManager made the editing interface more usable for portfolio maintainers
Why it belongs in the archive
It shows the classic Evo pattern of assembling a working solution from several focused tools instead of waiting for one monolithic package to do everything.
Why this belongs in the timeline
Portfolio and agency sites were one of the most natural fits for Evolution. This pattern helps document the ecosystem that grew up around that use case instead of leaving the historical record focused only on blogs and catalogs.
Building Positive and Negative Reviews with Jot in Evolution CMS
A historical review-pattern article about extending Jot beyond plain comments.
Learning MODX Evolution from HTML Templates, Chunks, and Placeholders
A historical beginner article about thinking in Evo from plain HTML instead of theme packages.