What did you use before MODx?

MODX always has security at the forefront so you don't really have any worries with there especially if you follow the hardening MODX guide. In terms of updates there's really not that many and BobRay also developed an updater that sits in your dashboard and will update the core within a single click. Maintence is generally low especially when compared to Wordpress, Drupal or any other of the majors.

Quote from: lkfranklin at Apr 28, 2017, 05:57 PM

especially if you follow the hardening MODX guide.

Thanks very much!!! I plan to have my developer install Modx of my ISP's servers and would like the more hardened version as my site always gets hacked by people who then use it to send out "Buy Viagra or Cialis or Fatburner" emails.

In keeping with the theme of this thread, I currently use WordPress for Coinsandhistory.com and also for Flowsimulations.com The 2nd site is down now due to hacking but the coins site I play with more. Before Wordpress I used Adobe Dreamweaver (Html manager) and before that just pure html. The coins site is actually 95% html, edited with Notepad++. However none of the html shows up on Googlestats which shows my site has around 8 pages when it actually has maybe 200. Thus I got WordPress to fix this but the site gets always hacked despite 20 char complex pwds, & frequent updating to WordPress & it's plugins.

I'm in the same boat. I used Yola.com for a few years and now am using Wordpress. I'm always concerned about security and the amount of plugins you have to use. I'm not a developer. Just someone who wants to create my own website and at the same time have full control over it. I checked out some of the other CMS's out there like pyrocms, getsimple, concrete 5 to name a few but for some reason after watching video a few years ago I felt there was something about ModX that was different. I'll reinstall it on my server in a subdomain again probably using the hardened version this time and follow the ModX hardening documentation. There are a lot of features ModX has that I might be able to investigate further.

I'm now looking for videos that will show me how to approach ModX to create a site from start to finish.

For more than five years I used wordpress. Recently, I with my team for the projects began to use MODX. The most important thing for me and my clients for whom we develop websites is to create not just a beautiful site, but also make it convenient for the one who will fill it with content. And admin panel MODH is most convenient for working with the content of the site. Much more convenient than the Wordpress.

Alexander, life-reactor.com, art-director

Static code with Macromedia Dreamweaver, then Mambo CMS, PHP-NUKE

I previously used Wordpress, then Drupal and now MODx.

I am still using Wordpress for my site but wouldn't mind changing.not sure if Modx has a steep learning curve. Below is my site. I. Just wondering how challenging it would be to create this in Modx and keep my site free of cost. That's what I love about WordPress.

http://www.mcran.com [ed. note: rmcellig last edited this post 6 years, 1 month ago.]

I used mambo. Due to several issues like lack of users management made me to switched to Drupal but Drupal is quite complex and I hade to quite it as well.

Now i am feeling good with Modx

I tried literally every CMS, and framework that exists. So, I think I'm qualified to say that MODx is, by leaps and bounds, the absolute best thing to come along. With API mode you can run it "silently" in the background, or you can take advantage of the amazing Manager and scale up to huge projects with intercompany messaging, and permissions sets virtually out-of-the-box.

I used MODx as the data framework engine for a complete social networking platform. Will be releasing that to the public by Christmas if I can get the last few bugs worked out in the newest MODx upgrade.

Thank you, MODx Development Team!

@rmcellig its not too hard to do your site in Modx, but if wordpress works for you then why bother? Modx is more secure, but that isn't an issue for every site out there.

The one thing with your heavy site is, you would want to import the database properly, in order that the tool managing your mp3 files will be able to find those files and access them