MODx
MODx is “100% buzzword compliant” meaning that it was created to immediately work with all sorts of techie things like AJAX, Javascript libraries and all that sorts of goodness. It’s creators call it a “Content Management Framework” meaning that it can be used for a whole lot more than your typical static brochure site.
Current Version: 2.0.0 / 1.0.4
Cost: Free
Development: Community
Hosting: Own Server
Source: Open Source
License: GNU GPL
Programming: PHP
Database: MySQL
Our Impressions:
MODx is feature-rich, it’s built to use all sorts of the newest technologies (like AJAX) and a lot of developers love it for that. The system is easy to navigate and find your way around with the left side menu that pops open with pages. It can manage files, weblinks, and pages with ease along with nice features like a site backup.
As a new user it can be a little overwhelming because every new page you create has a hundred boxes that could be filled out or checked. At times, raw code shows up in the backend that may also be confusing if you aren’t a programmer.
Helpful Links:
- MODx Content Management System Home to the documentation and forums for MODx
- MODx Twitter Page Follow their updates
- Suggest a Link
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User Reviews: Submit Your Own
Voting has been open for this CMS since Wednesday, January 14th, 2009. There are a total of 3 Reviews for this CMS. You can follow future reviews through the RSS feed if you'd like.
Review by Sebastian April 24th, 2010 7:29 am
Review by Ignaty Nikulin October 28th, 2009 10:02 am
Strengths: Big community. Mega easy for designers. Ditto is a rockstar. Many modules (Starting from website redesign, now they have modeule database). Strong Web Standards Support.
Weaknesses: None found afrer 1.0 Release.
Review by Everett October 16th, 2009 11:11 pm
Strengths: Templating. Hands down, MODx is one of the easiest CMS’s for designers to work with. Many CMS’s operate within a rigid box, and they offer only minimal settings for designers to tweak the look and appearance. MODx is different — it lets designers take existing HTML and CSS and then you can pop in a few simple placeholders to get the CMS functionality (e.g. [*pagetitle*]). *ANY* existing HTML can be ported to MODx quickly, and it’s trivial to give each page its own look and feel.
MODx is an excellent choice if you want to add CMS functionality to a static site.
MODx makes it easy for developers to add their own PHP scripts.
MODx has few limitations — most everything is possible.
Weaknesses: It’s a small dev team, and sometimes documentation is limited. The number of 3rd party additions is limited too, and MODx may not be the ideal choice for certain applications. Although most everything is possible in MODx, not everything is practical.
Strengths: Excellent CMS, the hierarchical structure for content that it uses is just so logical, very easy to understand from the beginning. I have used Joomla, ExpressionEngine and ModX. And ModX is by far the easiest to understand and use.
It has a big community with lots of free plug-ins. The core installation comes with an html editor that is fantastic, clients love this, you can edit pages directly in context as long as you are logged in.
Weaknesses: The biggest weakness is the lack of important feature in the core installation.
As many common things are not part of the core installation you will need to rely on the plug-ins (e.g. mailing lists). This is good and bad. Good because there are many plug-in choices but bad because many plug-ins are half done and a bit difficult to implement.
The documentation for some plug-ins is not very good as well, but is better that some paid options (i.e. ExpressionEngine)