What keeps you using ModX?

Hello All,

I hope this doesn't come off as inflammatory, but I'd love to hear what keeps people using modx?

I've come to modx after trying some other contemporaries before the revo was even on the map, and thought it was just amazing in terms of putting the ability to content manage for someone with meager PHP skills.

Over the years though, as the requirements of a website grew, I've found the plugin and component system to be a hindrance, leading to spaghetti code and finding bugs is beyond unpleasant. My knowledge of PHP grew I'm finding that I'd rather use php frameworks or WP for straight-forward sites.

Now I've got some projects from past that haunt me, where I'm asked to find obscure issues like content changing/reverting or plugins no longer working.

I partially agree (although not about WP). I tried really hard to migrate to October CMS a few months ago but ended up back at Modx for one reason - the community support. I think that October is better architecturally and maybe even has an easier learning curve, but when I had a fairly simple issue, there was no-one to help. This is certainly not the case on these forums.

Time might change this perception as the October community grows and obviously other people's experiences will differ, but as an occasional developer with only a few sites under my belt, I rely on the help of others and I get that here.

I don't know if MODx is made for humans, it's certainly run by humans.
A newbie easily runs into a pro developer, I mean, there is help right around the corner, even for the 'silliest' question, if such a thing exists.

If a platform has quick update/create resources/elements, I am quickly sold.

The community support, and the universally positive tone of these Forums were what first attracted me to MODX. The superior architecture and flexibility are what keep me involved.

Community, yes. But also the same thing that brought me to its progenitor, Etomite, in the first place - the tree structure that gives a very easy visual representation of the site structure. And the Revolution manager has a number of really nice features for working with these resources, such as drag-and-drop positioning and a QuickUpdate/QuickCreate feature that lets you open one in a popup to look at or modify while you still have another Manager page open.

In 2008 I got introduced to the CMS world when I re-designed a web site running Joomla. Joomla (and most CMS) gives users the ability to inject content into the code Joomla outputs.

This was horrible and I thought web design was dead and over with. Fortunately for me and my client I found MODX!
Here is why I consider MODX to be the best CMS in the world:

1. FREEDOM: You decide how much of MODX You want to inject into Your code. (Reversed roles!)
2. OOP: Total separation between client-side and server-side code.
3. GPL LICENSE: Open-Source done right
4. AWESOME COMMUNITY: Thanks to people like Bob Ray and Susan Ottwell I got inspired to learn PHP!

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It is possible to use MODX without PHP programming as you can always find programmers to help you. But when you learn PHP a whole new world of opportunities opens up. I took a break from MODX to really learn and program database applications using PHP PDO. This was what the key I needed to understand xPDO.

I prefer MVC frameworks such as laravel/codeigniter. much more enjoyable for me, but a lot more time consuming. you can get a website up and running quickly with modx which is one of the things i like.