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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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Setting up CKEditor on MODx Evolution

February 21st, 2010 · 40 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

I’ve been using the default TinyMCE rich text editor that comes bundled with MODx Evolution on all my sites. Recently though, I’ve been a little dissatisfied with it and decided to try a different RTE.  Digging through the forums and the repository, I came across CKEditor as a possible alternative rich text editor. So far [...]

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MODx and Drupal – Some Thoughts

February 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Drupal, MODx, People

Recently on Twitter I made the comment that I love MODx and Drupal equally.  James Rotering from The CMS less traveled found that statement interesting and decided to dig a little deeper.  He sent me some pointed and very detailed questions about my thoughts on the two CMSs and the results of that interview are [...]

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Interview with Jason Coward (aka OpenGeek) – MODx Co-Founder & Lead Architect

January 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments · MODx, People

1. Brief Bio: Name, Where you live, any personal info you want to share, link to your website(s) (personal, company, etc). My name is Jason Coward, and I am 38 years old. I am one of the original founders of the MODx project, founder of the xPDO project, and CTO of Collabpad, the company which [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 4 – Optimize with Caching

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · MODx, PHP, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction Part 1: Write and Test the PHP Script Part 2: Create the Snippet Part 3 – MODx API, Placeholders, Chunks In the fourth part of this brief series on creating a custom MODx Evolution snippet, we’re going to do some optimizing to make our snippet a little more efficient.  So far the [...]

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