My title may be a bit deceiving, but I wasn’t exactly sure how to title it. I’ve been using MODx for over a year now and I absolutely love it. I’m at a point in my business where I’m ready to make the commitment of using it exclusively as it meets almost every requirement. I know that solutions like Wordpress now have frameworks, etc. that have been developed that help streamline the process of rapid site development. I’m curious if there are any shortcuts that could be used to make the setup, development and design process a bit faster.
For instance, is it possible to setup form manager settings that could easily be saved and imported into future installations. Or possibly TVs that could be setup in one installation and easily setup almost like a bulk setup in other installations. I know that a framework isn’t really what I’m looking for, but there are certain tasks that are performed each and every installation that I would love to be able to streamline a bit more. Especially in those cases where I might like to setup template sites.
I apologize if these are features that are in place and that I may have overlooked, I actually hope that is the case. If not, any help or assistance or thoughts on how to save some of the mundane setup tasks of MODx would be greatly appreciated.
You can package up many of the MODx objects in an install into a single Transport Package with the PackMan add-on. Then you just copy the package to the core/packages directory, select "search locally for packages" and install it.
It’s also possible to create a Transport Package with a PHP build script that will put all the components in the package, configure some of them at install-time and even interact with the user during the install to present options and allow text input. That’s obviously a bigger job up front.
