PMACS Web Team MODX Blog

Creating a Fast Loading A to Z List of Pages in 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.…

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Navigation Items with Content and Children

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:

1. A navigation item that links to a resource (page) and also has child resources listed in the navigation as sub-menu items
2. A navigation item that has no content of it's own and has child resources listed in the navigation as…

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