This video tutorial show you how to set up the Discuss forum plugin for MODX
MODX is a free open source content management system. I use MODX because I think it is the best CMS for building websites. It gives you creative freedom but also allows you to build powerful secure web applications.
These articles are to help and remind me how to do certain things, and I hope other MODX users will also find them useful too.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jul 27, 2014 | | Comments (1)
This video tutorial show you how to set up the Discuss forum plugin for MODX
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jul 21, 2014 | | Comments (0)
A video tutorial that shows you how to set up a blog with the content management system MODX on MODX's own hosting system MODX Cloud.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 28, 2014 | | Comments (0)
How fast is your MODX site? If you have a Linux box you can find out how fast all the individual pages load on your website (time to first byte) with the added bonus of regenerating the cache for each page.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 25, 2014 | | Comments (0)
If you want to find the number of occurrences of a word in a website here's one way to do it on a Linux computer
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 25, 2014 | | Comments (1)
A few useful command line tools to help you find how quickly your websites loads ( and it's Time To First Byte TTFB)
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 12, 2014 | | Comments (7)
Just want 'Next' and 'Previous' buttons on your individual blog posts and having trouble trying to work out how to do this with getPage and getResources? Well this post might help. I do it by writing a snippet from the ground up.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on May 05, 2014 | | Comments (3)
If you need to set up a FAQ or testimonial page in MODX you can use MIGX. These are step by step instructions on how to go about it. ( There are also plugins you can use but doing this will help you learn MIGX which is a very useful tool)
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Jan 26, 2014 | | Comments (0)
Sometimes you just need to be reminded about the basics
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Dec 15, 2013 | | Comments (3)
MODX Revolution has very powerful security features. They can appear fiendishly complicated on first inspection, and it does take some time to get aquainted with them. This article gives a step by step guide to setting up a client user who can edit a limitted number of documents in the MODX manager.
Posted by Mike Nuttall on Oct 10, 2013 | | Comments (0)
You could use a MODX template variable to associate an image with the Open Graph Protocol meta image tag. But that is an extra field to fill in for the user. It cuts down the work if you could automatically grab the first image that is used in the article. This article shows how.