Your Top 5 Reasons for Developing with MODX

If you're a web developer—mostly on the programming and back end—please share with us your top 5 reasons for choosing MODX, and, more importantly, what you tell other developers when you're asked about MODX or when you're attempting to save them from another CMS?

We'd love as many answers as possible from as many folks as possible.

I guess I'll go first:

• No clutter installs
• Easy to train clients
• No code in content or templates: good separation of code etc.
• No rigid 'plugin' structures.
• Form Customization for custom views for end users.

Quickly from the top of my head, the top reasons we chose MODX over all other available CMS systems out there.

1. Absolute design freedom
2. Power of the combination of templates, template vars, chunks and snippets
3. Quality of extensions
4. Ease of use for content editors
5. Control over who has access to what in backend

let me say, that i prefer modx because of

• ditto and filtering / chunks
• templating and content categorization
• managermanager plugin
• shopkeeper
• template variables and easyu database model that way

• Flexible Templates
• Low Hardware/Software cost (hard/soft)
• Time to Develop is low since it's extremely easy to extend
• Straight Forward Content Editor, easy for clients to understand
• Community, the community around ModX is the best

1. Easy html/css templates. Use whatever code you want.
2. Easy to use Package Management and addons
3. Easy to upgrade versions of modx
4. Easily work with PHP code
5. Easy (wait, the word easy again?) output customization for resources.

MODx is essentially a blank canvas for development.

• What you put into it, is what you get out of it.
• No extra markup, i.g. Wordpress plugins adding their own output HTML
• SEO, Developer & User friendly
• Admin/Role Control
• Flexibility of the backend with TVs, Snippets & Chunks

1. xPDO, which I loathed learning but now find indispensible
2. The resource browser
3. API docs (really!)
4. Requires only minimal training for my clients
5. The community

I have many more than 5 reasons, but I'll narrow it down.

1. The Managers functionality - I rarely even open Dreamweaver...
2. Snippets/Chunks/Plugins are so easy to use
3. How easy it is to customize the manager, forms ect.
4. Clean code, complete freedom with templating
5. The ability to use custom Core and Manager directories

I also want to mention that a huge part of switching to MODX was the fact that the core team is so involved in the community, making themselves available to answer questions and continually improving MODX.

Keep up the amazing work guys!

1. Create whatever you want in HTML and CSS and easily integrate it into MODx. MODx gets out of your way and allows you to build whatever you want. I've taken so many static sites and put them into MODx quickly. Can't imagine trying to do this on many other systems.
2. Very flexible system allowing developers to create small sites to much larger sites. We've created simple 5 page brochure sites all the way up to document repository applications.
3. Logical backend tree structure for organizing a site...clients figure it out pretty quickly.
4. Easy to setup SEO in a site.
5. Community is very helpful.