Comments on: Review of MODx

By: moore

moore — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:11:29 +0000

Amy,

I haven’t updated MODx, so I can’t really speak to this. The new version of MODx looks to have a nice package managment system: http://svn.modxcms.com/docs/display/revolution/Package+Management#PackageManagement-UpdatingPackages

But again, I haven’t used it, so YMMV.

By: amy

amy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:34:53 +0000

Hi Dan-
in regards to ongoing maintenance after a site launch, what’s your take on the security and ease of updating? wordpress needs a lot of updating, which is good for security (if it doesn’t mangle the site), but clients don’t often understand this ‘ongoing maintenance’ of these cms’

thanks for your input!

By: moore

moore — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:07:25 +0000

Hi Marc,

I haven’t used MODx since the project I wrote this post about, so I’m afraid I can’t do an updated review. If I do end up using it in the future, I’ll try to update this review. (Now, if anyone wants to pay me to review it … )

You may want to check out this site for help evaluating your CMS options: http://cmsmatrix.org/

CMS Matrix typically doesn’t have this kind of in depth review, but does have a lot of ‘feature checkboxes’ that may lead you to an alternative to WP/Drupal/Joomla.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:10:34 +0000

Nice overview Dan. Any chance you would do a more current review of Modx? I have recently begun looking at their CMS and would agree with your post. I’m more interested in using Modx for smaller site deployments that have a CMS demand but as of this writing I have yet to install the program. Instead, I have sought out reviews such as yours.

Perhaps the most appealing issue for me at least is the lack of a generic Modx look. I’m looking for an alternative to WP, Drupal and Joomla.

By: GoosPoos :: Something Interesting

GoosPoos :: Something Interesting — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:17:28 +0000

MODx is one search engine optimized, web 2.0 featured and with built-in support for CSS menu builder which helps hassle free navigation building. Also read 9 Promising, free and open source CMS reviews for reviews of other good CMS options along with MODx.

By: moore

moore — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:51:05 +0000

Thanks Alex. MODx is an exciting CMS, and I’m glad I was able to help you evaluate it. That said, I haven’t touched it since a month after I wrote this, so please take what I wrote above with a grain of salt.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:55:52 +0000

Hi Dan,

This is probably the most systematic and clear review about MODx I’ve seen. I mean it!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:38:52 +0000

I believe the 5,000 document limit will no longer be an issue with MODx 0.97, due for a beta release some time before Xmas 07. However, typically the developers recommend using your own database tables integrated with MODx via modules to handle large amounts of bespoke data, while using MODx documents to present it. So you might have an ecommerce module with 50,000 products presented via a couple MODx documents, say ‘category’ and ‘product’, which would use snippets to output the data from your custom tables.

By: moore

moore — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:25:42 +0000

Andy,

I don’t believe that helps with the 5000 document issue–that was due to the caching mechanism that MODx uses. If I were you, I’d ask on the MODx forums about this issue–it’s conceivable that the new version (0.9.6 is out) addressed it.

If you want to use that, you can write the include line wherever you would normally put the code (in the plugins screen, etc).

By: andytwiz

andytwiz — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:05:11 +0000

“Luckily, you can avoid that by using an include: include($modx->config['filemanager_path'].’/assets/libs/thumbs/thumbplugin.php’);

This way, the code is on the file system, and can be versioned”

Could you please tell me where to include this line? I need to have a website with 400,000 documents – will this get around the 5,000 limit?

If not can you point me to where to start looking?

Thanks