Hi!
I’m chris and I’m the new guy. Been doing html forever, etc etc yada yada. I have wordpress up and running on a site and basically hate it. So I have found modX and am re-working a friend’s site so I can learn myself how this thing works.
After reading about a dozen posts in this forum, one phrase really stands out to me:
We need a picture to show how it works.
I read the words several times from here, the WF wiki, and also on
http://www.muddydogpaws.com/development/wayfinder/parameters.html ... it took me about an hour to figure out that the &outerTpl, etc parameters needed to have their own chunks created and the quote was the chunk’s name. Looking backwards, it’s easy to understand, but wow, it sure kicked my butt.
So I did a simple "dumb" picture that maybe someone could replicate in a more manageable size. The pic I made is attached.
It would be great if somewhere we are reminded that to kill the <ul> wrappers means creating an outerTpl with only the [+wf.wrapper+] in it.
There is some inconsistency:
[+wf.classes+] outputs class="blah"
while <a href="[+wf.link+]" title="[+wf.title+]" need the html attribute and surrounding quotes added by hand.
... but that’s even less than a small nit-pick.
Heh, it also took too long for me to figure out why something that is a sub-item of "home" didn’t show up in the menu .. needed to be its own top-level article.
It’s kinda funny ... modX is so "simple" that it is a touch more clumsy than WP at first. But wow, I really appreciate how SO MUCH code is in the database itself. NICE! I had to hack so many WP files to get my site working that I’m afraid to upgrade to a newer version. (plus I rolled a user-input cleaner that should be impervious to about anything non-human)
Anyhow, YAAY, I’m working down my to-do list & am excited about modX.
:)
