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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 10 – Using getResources to Aggregate Content

April 11th, 2011 · 41 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to part 10 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  In this installment we’re going to begin exploring how to create a page that aggregates content from several different pages, such as you would find in a magazine style website, or a blog, or a news website, etc.  We will continue working on [...]

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MODx Revolution – Adding an Attachment Field to a FormIt Form

March 9th, 2011 · 22 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

In this brief tutorial, I am going to show you how to add the capability to send and receive attachments with your FormIt form.  This tutorial will be building on the MODx Revolution Beginner series and therefore we will just add to the contact form we created in the FormIt tutorial.  I therefore recommend that [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 9 – Using FormIt to Create a Contact Form

March 8th, 2011 · 78 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to part 9 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  In this installment we’re going to look at how to create a simple contact form on our website using the FormIt snippet.  As we work through this series of tutorials we’re building a resource site for learning MODx Revolution.  We’re using the 7 [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 8 – Using Wayfinder to Create Menus

February 21st, 2011 · 47 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to part 8 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  As we work through these tuts we’re building a resource site for learning MODx Revolution.  We’re using the 7 in 1 Business Success Site Template from Themeforest, although you can follow along with any template that you choose.  In the last installment we introduced [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 7 – Working with Snippets

February 8th, 2011 · 10 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to part 7 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series.  In the last installment we learned about template variables and how we can use them to create custom editable fields on our site pages.  As we work through these tuts we’re building a resource site for learning MODx Revolution.  We’re using the 7 [...]

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