Comments on: MODx: A Powerful Content Management System And Framework

By: deraibali

deraibali — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:04:25 +0000

Good CMS… I’am use MOdx for all my project….

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:19:54 +0000

MODx is a breath of fresh air after using Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. It is very robust and secure and you can do just about anything you can think of with it without ever hacking the core code.

Unlike the other well-known CMSs, it makes no attempt to force you to do things in a certain way. It merely provides tools for every purpose.

In spite of its power, it lets you create a variety of very simple UIs for naive users, who never have to see the complexity in the back end.

By: mrhaw

mrhaw — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:29:14 +0000

I love MODx http://4up2date.info/modx_facts.html

By: stargate

stargate — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:04:44 +0000

I love modx one of the best CMS of all time. I have tired them all and with ease you have a site up and running with mod x. Drupal and Joomla are still using OLD code they haven’t be rewritten from the ground up. Don’t get me wrong impression Drupal and Joomla are powerful but not as easy as modx cms. Plus I can’t wait till Revolution comes out. I encourage any Drupal, Joomla users to switch over and It will make your life much easier. Download it now and mess around with Modx cms

By: Hunter

Hunter — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:04:07 +0000

@hank
I have to disagree with the ease of use for clients. I work with clients in a very specific market that are not tech savvy and we were never able to offer any CMS as part f the sites we developed for them until we discovered ModX. Every client who has been trained on it has been able to easily update and maintain their sites with minimal difficulty.

Plus all the great SEO and development bonuses everyone else has mentioned.

It’s not without it’s flaws, but it is one of the few CMS’s out there that will just let you BUILD A SITE – not a blog, not a store, not a wiki- it’s great for any kind of site that small to medium businesses will need. And any basic site can be easiky converted, so we have actually been able to create additional revenue by upselling it on sites we built years ago.

Documentation is really lacking, though.

By: Umut M.

Umut M. — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:18:22 +0000

@Carl,
Not the perfect answer to your question but I think speed is not a concern on any CMS that supports caching.

By: Carl @CigarBargains

Carl @CigarBargains — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:07:06 +0000

How fast is it compared to Joomla and Drupal?

By: lossendae

lossendae — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:58:06 +0000

MODx has definitively the best templating system i’ve ever seen.

Easy and straight forward, no php meddling in html markup.

Since you can control whatever you want to show to your client on the manager side, it can be also very user friendly (You cen even rename the managing element so they become more understandable for your customers).

You can also put your existing php program very easily, even without knowing/using the API.

It’s the opposite of more common tools where you have to code for the CMS. MODx works for you, not the other way around.

On the down side, it still lacking support with 3rd party plugins.
So point & click user, or company with no php developpers will probably find it cool but incomplete.

By: Minneapolis Web Design Guy

Minneapolis Web Design Guy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:12:14 +0000

I’ve heard a lot about MODx but I haven’t had a chance to give it a go yet. I’ve been using Joomla for so long, and successfully, I just haven’t seen a reason to switch over to a different CMS.

Maybe I’ll try and see if I can get the next smaller project we do to be on a MODx platform, just to give it a shot and learn more about it.

By: hank

hank — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:18:02 +0000

Modx blows. Avoid. It’s needlessly complicated and not user-friendly for clients.