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$30.00 per month
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Most Helpful Reviews for MODX
1 - 5 of 65 Reviews
Jakub
2 - 10 employees
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
Reviewed April 2022
The hidden gem of content management systems
Olga
Verified reviewer
E-Learning, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2020
The best CMS for professional web designer
It is just amazing! I am on cloud nine! Splendid CMS. Spectacular Service. Gorgeous! Dazzling! Fantastic!
PROSIt is the best lightweight CMS. Google PageSpeed Insights skyrocketed on my website with this MODX. It is almost perfection. Secure, trustworthy, ideal for any web developer who wants to innovate. It is easy to customize, modify for your personal needs, and manage on any good, reliable hosting. I cannot imagine any other CMS which could have replaced this one. I am quite a fussy, picky, choosy and troublesome web site administrator, content creator and something like web-developer, so I have spent 2 years to choose the best of the best CMS for my projects and when I have found this one, tried out it myself, created several webpages with using this CMS, I insisted my web designer use only MODX. It is born to inspire! Innovative. Inspiring. Intelligent. Indispensable. Incentive.Impressive.
CONSFor comfortable using this CMS you need to choose a good server and hosting. If you choose an improper, unsuitable hosting, you will have serious problems in the near future.
Reason for choosing MODX
Comfy, secure, easy-to-use, responsive, adaptive, reliable, trustworthy, user-friendly, lightweight, customizable. The most powerful thing I have ever known.
Reasons for switching to MODX
Heavyweight CMS which prevented me to achieve Good Google PageSpeed Performance. Many Wordpress Themes (paid and free) have lots of bugs, malfunctions and vulnerabilities which are almost impossible to get rid of.
Jakub
Design, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
The hidden gem of content management systems
Using MODX as a CMS allowed us to create absolute stunning designs which are far away from any generic Wordpress template. You can create your own frontend designs and then connect it to MODX and add the content. At the end of the day MODX can be used as an API and headless CMS - if needed. But that requires some more configuration. I love the caching feature which can be set extremely gralually and gives the site a much needed performance boost.
PROSMODX is run on a Apache/PHPH/Mysql infrastructure and this makes it very simple to run pretty much everywhere. The best is the interface and freedom of creation. It is a pure content manager - not a site builder. So you need to code your frontend first (or get a template) but once this is done connecting it to MODX is very straightforward and does require very little "coding". Plus the whole system has a great cache system which is far superior to any other CMS out there.
CONSThe deployment process is tedious - currently there is no way to deploy directly form github etc. Basically all content and code and templates and css etc. is saved in the database so pushing any updates is available generally only via the MODX interface. This is not very developer friendly. But it is very web-designer friendly and can be accessed everywhere.
Reason for choosing MODX
The ease of use and the possibility to create an user interface for the end-user which allowed him to edit only selected parts of the site.
philipp
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2023
10/10 Overall, however there are some concerns
Can build anything with it from simple 1 pager website, to a backoffice for apps, to a multi website CMS serving many sites at once.
PROSAny design is possibleSeparates template completely from CMSCan serve any pages, from HTML to JSON for a e.g. mobile appFastVery SecureNo BloatYou can build a website with no to very few plugins if you wishExcellent support community in the forums and on slackMulti Websites in one installVery Flexible Can write any pluginLow maintenance once running
CONSSmall CommunityNot many plugins because of small communityMany outdated old plugins (surprisingly though many still work 100%)Larger learning curve
Reason for choosing MODX
October CMS would be by next go to. The only reason is that I have not had enough time to learn it / get into it.
Reasons for switching to MODX
Modx is more developer friendly and more is possible. If build right its also easier to use for the end user.
Vladimir
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2018
I had to use it
If you're working strictly on a template, then you're good. Not a flexible UI at all.
PROSIt does what it supposed to but it just seems outdated.
CONSIt was difficult to use. There just way better options out there.