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WordPress to MODx Migration Part 3: Templates, Categories, and Postmeta

Aug
25
2010

Alright, I’m back for part three of this action packed WordPress to MODx Migration mania. In part one I showed you how to use xPDO to connect to the WordPress database and import post content into MODx. In part two I demonstrated how xPDO handles table relationships by importing WordPress comments into MODx. [...]


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Posted in: MODx, xPDO

WordPress to MODx Migration Part 2: Schema Relationships and Comments

Jul
6
2010

In part 1 of this Wordpress to MODx migration I introduced you to xPDO’s schema and model generators and started work on migrating wordpress post and page data into MODx. In this post I’m going to show you how I built the relationships in the wordpress schema file and how I pulled in all [...]


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Posted in: MODx, xPDO

WordPress to MODx Migration Part 1: First Impressions of xPDO

May
20
2010

I wrote in my last post that I want to move this blog from WordPress to MODx and so I thought this would be a good real world lesson in using xPDO.  Rather than custom coding a database migration tool using plain old php like I’ve done in the past, I thought it would be [...]


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Posted in: MODx, xPDO

MODxpo 2010

May
13
2010

I feel fortunate to have spent the last two days in Dallas, TX with the greatest minds in the MODx world. MODxpo 2010 was so far above what I expected that I’m at a loss to capture everything that went on. The most awesome and most humbling aspect of the conference was [...]


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Posted in: MODx

Book Review: MODx Web Development from Packt Publishing

Dec
31
2009

I want to be honest with you, I’ve kind of been putting off writing my review of MODx Web Development from Packt Publishing. I actually finished the book about a week ago and just felt like I had to give it some distance so I didn’t totally bash this book. It’s not really [...]


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Posted in: MODx, Reviews

MODx Chunk Cache Plugin

Oct
22
2009

I needed to cache a chunk as a file so that another application (an ecommerce store) could include that file as well. I wrote this plugin that does that:

$chunks = array(‘StoreMenu’); // array of chunks that need to be cached
foreach($chunks as $v)
{
$res = $modx->db->select("snippet","modx_site_htmlsnippets","name = ‘$v’");
if($modx->db->getRecordCount($res))
{
[...]


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Posted in: MODx

New Tool: MODx Snippet Call2PHP

Oct
13
2009

I added a new tool today for MODx users that turns a MODx snippet call into a snippet call using the MODx API function runSnippet(). It’s a pretty simple tool, but I made it because I hate doing this manually (it’s just too tedious). Enjoy.
MODx Snippet Call2PHP


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Posted in: Announcements, MODx

MODx Sucks

Oct
12
2009

So I was looking at my Google Webmaster Tools this morning for devtrench.com and I throught it was pretty funny to see that this site ranks #1 for “modx sucks“.
Just for clarity I wanted to write this post to let everyone know that my opinion is that MODx doesn’t suck, but that there are few [...]


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Posted in: MODx

Things that Suck About MODx CMS

Feb
28
2008

This post started out titled Pros and Cons of MODx CMS, but today I’m rewriting it because I’m really not in the mood to give you a bunch of fluff about why MODx is great and then give you the bad stuff. Flat out, I think MODx is the best CMS for my projects [...]


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Posted in: MODx, Programming

How To Use a MODx Plugin to Cache Snippets

Jan
28
2008

I don’t want to take credit for this, but I definitely wanted to blog about it because I think it is a big deal. In a forum post I made on modxcms.com, ganeshXL came up with an awesome way to cache snippet output with a MODx plugin. Here is what ganeshXL wrote:

create a [...]


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Posted in: MODx, Programming

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