general advice on whether or not modx would be a good fit

Hi, I've used modx (a while back), EE, and wordpress among others. I liked EE, but I have issues which aren't worth going into here. Mainly, I ended up using wordpress more for a few reasons. A lot of my sites use blogs extensively, and wp really shines here. The WP community is HUGE. Have a problem? — you can google the answer in seconds. And it's pretty and easy to use. I still have clients that are too computer challenged to set up their email, the backend admin is a big deal. I don't want to train people. Both modx and EE are far more complicated on the backend for most of my clients.

That said, today was my last straw with WP (also not worth going into in detail). If you develop locally and then try to push to a remote server, everything breaks. There are workarounds, even elegant ones, and I thought I had this problem licked, but I'm using a new plugin which seemed to break my workarounds. The morale of the story is that, by design, wp is not mean to be developed locally and then pushed up to a remote site via a db dump and some ssh action. I'm sick of fighting it. Add that to the rest of my list of things I don't like about wp and it's time to move on.

So, long preamble, but my question is this: Is Modx any better?

I want to develop locally (and keep my templates as local files too — which is something modx used to be horrible at, but I understand that's fixed now), and then probably set up capistrano to push/pull to dev and live sites.

Does modx excel at this without me having to learn a whole new set of workarounds?

Any insight would be much appreciated, thanks.

There are sometimes gotchas in moving a site to a remote server, but once they're solved, you're in business and the solutions are usually simple.

With the new Media Sources, using disk files is no problem (though, again, it can be somewhat tricky to set up, especially if you intend to restrict access to certain resource, files, or elements in the MODX Manager).

You can also use NewsPublisher or one of the other front-end editing solutions to keep lower-level users out of the Manager.

Once you have things set up, though, transferring the files is definitely all you'll need to do.

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Thanks for the info. I wasn't even aware of newspublisher, I'll have to look into that. Really, where a CMS needs to go for a lot of my clients is on-page, in-line editing. I'll look around and see if I can find a plugin that would do that.

Sadly, I'm committed to wp for the next couple of sites, but probably as soon as late next week I can start re-learning modx with an actual project.