What do you think about modx to use as CMS?

Question

First of all, hi to everyone!

I wan't to ask everypeople if they know modx cms framework, if yes, what do you think about it? If you know it and don't like it, what cms do you advice to use?

Thanks in advance, José Moreira

Answer 1

I used it a couple years ago and it was nice to work with. Much better than Drupal from a developer standpoint IMO. Alot easier to theme and incorporate custom functionality. For a long time, for me, ModX and Drupal were the only viable options to use as a CMS on a project unless it was something 100% custom - and 90% of the time ModX won that argument.

However if i have completely free choice these days i use Apostrophe as i generally develop in Symfony anyhow.

Answer 2

If you're starting with CMSes and need basics quickly, modx is awesome. If you have experience with CMSes, you will really appreciate modx. I do most of the stuff in modx. I've tried other solutions before and since, but always go back :) to modx.

Modx has imple structure that works (templates, tvs, chunks and snippets) It lets you do a lot of php stuff without hacking the core. A new architecture for a new internet. Modx could afford to start from scratch, where older, more popular CMS solutions suffer from a bit of bloat - new modules and plugins are sometimes done in a questionable way, but due to popularity continue to be built on and can cause unintended consequences. (generally speaking) Easy site creation, if you're not doing anything custom in terms of functionality, you can have a working site up in an hour with the install (if you have your html/css prepared)

here's the downside, although it has a decent community, it can get hard sometimes to get help on a unique issue, and a lot of the extras can get outdated easily as there are not as many active developers involved as with drupal.

I also had a look at CMS made simple, and although I was astounded how simple it was, creating a new module or plugin was a daunting task, whereas modx is largely built to be custom.

With modx Revo coming out pretty soon in an RC, I see a lot of improvements on the way. For example, OOP code.

I haven't seen a lot of negative stuff about modx, and this is about the worst I've seen http://www.devtrench.com/things-that-suck-about-modx-cms/ and though I don't agree with everything said there, there are some good points raised there, and if you can live with those for now, you've got a great CMS. I mostly agree with the ditto/blogging sentiment. The tools are there to set up a blog, but it's no wordpress.