New online documentation

The "sections" are built from article categories..

So to get an article to the Tips section, put [[Category:Tips]] in the article content.. an article can also be on multiple categories. For example "how to do an accordion menu with wayfinder" could have [[Category:HOWTO]] and [[Category:Snippets]].

OK, thanks. Where is the link to create a new article?

Andy

Just access the url of the new aricle and it will have "edit this page" link.

So for example using url "/index.php/Your article here" would create a new article titled "Your article here".

EDIT: BTW. It’s not quite ready for public announcement yet, so that’s why there isn’t one been done.. just a little info for others reading this and wondering.

Thanks.

I too am confused on steps to take after installing MODX. I have an existing XHTML website, using PHP include files, external CSS and Javascript files, which I want to convert to MODX. All of 9 files to change over.

Yet, I can’t figure out what the next step is. Am I to create a template? What’s a snippet?

Surely I don’t need to read everything in the Content Editor, Developer Guide, Administrator Guide, and Designers Guide to understand the specific MODX terminology before I begin? I’ve been on the forum and read how others were able to get a site up and running in no more than three hours.

Quote from: redcrew at Nov 05, 2006, 03:53 PM

Surely I don’t need to read everything in the Content Editor, Developer Guide, Administrator Guide, and Designers Guide to understand the specific MODX terminology before I begin? I’ve been on the forum and read how others were able to get a site up and running in no more than three hours.

I would definitely recommend that you read the entire documentation, MODx can do pretty anything, but it surely isn’t a WYSIWYG editor.

I have read the documentation several times, and there are still lots of things I don’t yet understand.

It is worth spending some time learning MODx, it is a great tool!

Quote from: redcrew at Nov 05, 2006, 03:53 PM

I too am confused on steps to take after installing MODX. I have an existing XHTML website, using PHP include files, external CSS and Javascript files, which I want to convert to MODX. All of 9 files to change over.
Surely I don’t need to read everything ...<snip> to understand the specific MODX terminology before I begin? I’ve been on the forum and read how others were able to get a site up and running in no more than three hours.

I don’t mind reading everything - but it’s not helping me - I’m having trouble understanding how to apply this to what I want to do.

I’m determined to get some headway with ModX, so I’ve left my current install in place and will get it working using an imported template. In the meantime I’ve moved my custom design template etc. to my current testing space where I’m going to experiment with some other aspects.

Maybe someone is curious enough to take a look and tell me whether what I’m trying to achieve is possible with ModX. The thing that’s missing from the sample design (apart from real links etc.) is the functionality I wanted - the whole point of using ModX - to add a commenting system.

You can absolutely do that with MODx, and much more.

But, if you are only going to make ONE site, in my opinion MODx might not be the first choice.

MODx can do anything you want, but for setting up a site very quickly there exists simpler CMS which might be more easy to understand.

On the other hand, learning MODx might make you want to create more sites just because it’s so fun!

If you want to create a simple MODx blog style site with commenting you should use Ditto to list docs anyway you want, and Jot is a dream comming true for commenting.

Have you tested the 0.95 RC1? It has what you need preinstalled.

Good luck!

The documentation appears to be quite incomplete and in cases inaccurate. There are several threads over a year old talking about adding this or that to the documentation "soon".
Has the documenation effort been abandoned? Is there a plan for the next documentation release?
BTW, I would be happy to contribute to the documenation effort if/when I ever begin to understand it.
Thanks,
joe

Yea documetation should be updated and maybe explain things better .