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MODx Evolution and MailChimp

March 19th, 2010 · No 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 · 20 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 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 snippet seems [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 3 – MODx API, Placeholders, Chunks

January 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction
Part 1: Write and Test the PHP Script
Part 2: Create the Snippet
So far we have created the raw PHP script and tested the code outside of MODx.  We’ve started the process of transforming this script into the rssfeedFetcher snippet and we have it working on the Learn MODx website.  We’ve learned [...]

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MODx Evolution: Creating a Simple Custom Snippet Part 2 – Create the Snippet

January 14th, 2010 · 6 Comments · MODx, Tutorials

Part 0: Introduction
Part 1: Write and Test the PHP Script
In the last installment of this brief series we went through the process of creating the raw PHP script that will form the basis of our snippet. We tested the code outside of MODx and it seemed to work pretty well. In this part, we’re [...]

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