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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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))
{
[...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]