Comments on: Things that Suck About MODx CMS

By: Why I chose MODx over Drupal, Part One: Because I’m Lazy, Stubborn and Anti-Social « Why I chose MODx over Drupal

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:39:58 +0000

[...] is poorly documented, feature-deficient, and sits alone in the cafeteria at [...]

By: James Ehly

James Ehly — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:05:02 +0000

This post does have an update: see MODx Sucks. It was written in Oct. 2009. BTW, I still haven't been able to install and work with MODx 2 because of all of the bugs. I don't really have time to be a beta tester.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:05:36 +0000

Maybe this post can do with an update now? Since we write the year 2010 now and with MODx 2 version on the market I believe a view of these things have changed now … (and I haven’t even started using it but will tomorrow)

By: James Ehly

James Ehly — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:39:26 +0000

I’ve never used EZ publish, but I know MODx can do everything you wrote, but there might not be an easy plugin to do it yet. MODx has plugins that use hooks (very similar to wordpress), that you can use to manipulate how the CMS works. For instance, you can use the OnParseDocument hook to grab all of the page document variables and parse them however you want before displaying them to the user.

You can also use PHx (another plugin) to manipulate content.

James

By: paul b

paul b — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:25:04 +0000

Look, this has been bothering me, and feel free to shoot me down in public or private.

I have used ezpublish (whatever the upper/lower case convention is at present) quite a bit. It occurs to me that an important feature of ez is that it is the only cms I’ve encountered that treats the content area as actual content: you can parse it for images (find the first image in the content block, process it, and add it to another page); index the headings (to create anchor menus); link to content objects within the system (http:ezobject:1244 or whatever).

Do you know of any other cms which does this?

I’m not sure about MODx, but Silverstripe et al all seem to get to the content block and say: “crappy html coming up – don’t worry about it”. Shouldn’t we be asking our cms applications to process all data, not just the easy stuff?

By: MODx Sucks | DEVTRENCH

MODx Sucks | DEVTRENCH — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:20:17 +0000

[...] writing my MODx sucks post, I’ve worked a lot more with it and have concluded that one thing that could make MODx [...]

By: Bob Sanders

Bob Sanders — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:07:59 +0000

Modx is so lacking in web 2.0 apps and social network applications, does anyone know a better CMS whereas it has the power of ModX but better social??? What would you use to power a very large travel company that has a social network attached?

By: James Ehly

James Ehly — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:14:19 +0000

Read the section titled “Ditto isn’t a blog”. Mostly I feel that MODx fits the website mold better for my clients. Since I author this site and since it is more of a blog, I chose Wordpress to benefit from all of the social features. I also understand the difference between posts and pages, which is something my clients have a hard time getting used to (especially if the don’t want a ‘blog’). Both are great, and both would have worked for this site, but I’m happy with Wordpress.

By: juckl

juckl — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:21:44 +0000

So why is site not running on ModX…if it is your CMS of choice?

By: bluehipy

bluehipy — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:14:43 +0000

ModX can be a pain in many directions, modX Evolution. I think that modX Revolution is much more better as API.
I don’t know why they have gone with mootools and scriptacoulous instead of just using jQuery.
Ditto + Jot can help you make somthing working fast.
I made this:
http://www.joy2share.com/code/log/smarty-aproach-to-modX.html

In couple of hours.
Also the article describe how to use smarty with modx if anyone would be interested.