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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 2 – Installation

August 23rd, 2010 · 23 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Welcome to Part 2 of the MODx Revolution for complete beginners series. In the last post, I briefly introduced this series.  In this installment, we’re going to get hands on by going through the process of installing MODx Revolution so that we can start building our site.  The process of installing Revolution is pretty straightforward, [...]

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MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 1 – Introduction

August 18th, 2010 · 11 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

This is the first in a planned series of tutorials covering MODx Revolution 2 for complete beginners from the ground up.  MODx Revolution is the new branch of the MODx CMS that’s built on a whole different code base than MODx Evolution.  According to MODx founder Ryan Thrash: “MODx Revolution is a completely new MODx. [...]

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Simple Ecommerce with MODx Evolution and PayPal

June 16th, 2010 · 27 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

In this post, I am going to briefly walk through the process of creating a very simple and basic ecommerce setup using MODx Evolution and PayPal.  There are several MODx shopping carts that are at different stages of development and that have different features, however I haven’t extensively tested or used any of them, but [...]

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MODx Revolution RC-1 is Here!

March 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · MODx

After a nice long wait, MODx Revolution 2.0.0 is finally in Release Candidate 1.  Exciting news indeed!! We’re getting close to GA! Grab it, play with it, get on the forums and make suggestions and give feedback, get on Jira and report bugs, and make sure you say thank you to the developers and help [...]

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MODx Evolution and MailChimp

March 19th, 2010 · 29 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

In this post we’re going to go over how to get the MailChimp snippet set up and working on your MODx Evolution site.  MailChimp is a service that allows you to send email newsletters, manage subscriber lists, and track campaign performance.  You can of course simply create the forms and such directly in MailChimp and [...]

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