Over the years, our design team that has fluctuated between 4 - 6 members has faced an overwhelming amount of demand for new sites to be developed with a quick turnaround desired by our clients. For faculty lab sites, student group sites, and any other simple sites that don't require highly customizable options and need to be up and running rather quickly, our web team offers a self-serve website service that is implemented with MODX.
Recently, we had a need to create an A to Z list of a large number of resources on a MODX site. Our list required a section at the top with a list of A to Z links to anchored A to Z sections. We tried Bob Ray's SiteAtoZ package which was great and did exactly what we needed until we tried using it with our 450 resources. The uncached page load time was too slow.…
We had a recurring problem with dropdown navigation menus. Our website publishers kept setting them up "wrong" or at least not how we intended. The publishers want to create two different types of dropdown menu items:
When we set up MODX sites for our clients, we always create a few pages that we want the site publishers to never delete nor unpublish. We want these pages to be "edit only" for publishers and we also don't want them duplicating them. For us, this applies to the home page, page not found, search results page, and a special resource that we use for site-wide configurations. Yes, we have had publishers delete the homepage even…
In MODX, access policies are sets of permissions that can be assigned to a user group. There are a number of different access policies that come with MODX but the ones we want to look at here are the Administrator policy and the Content Editor policy. These are the default policies for users who can use the manager.
The Administrator is pretty much all-powerful so you would only assign that policy to user groups who you…
Our team chose MODX as a platform way back in 2013 largely because of its flexibility. We're free to create templates using whatever HTML structure we choose. MODX tends to be unopinionated about the presentation of content and as a design team we care a lot about that.
In roughly four years, our list of MODX sites in production has grown to just over two hundred. We have another one hundred or so MODX projects in development.…