Welcome to Part 3 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series. In the last installment, we went through the step by step process of installing MODx Revolution. In this post, we’re going to do some basic site configuration. We will also explore installing extras from the MODx repository. This post will just cover the basics, and you will find that as you explore more the Revolution Manager has a lot of options to configure, but we’re just going to look at the basics and then return to different parts of the manager and explore them as we need to interact with them.
So far:
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installation
Welcome to Part 4 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series. In the last installment, we did some basic site configuration and looked at how to set/change global site settings such as the site name, and all that. We also explored how to install extras from the MODx repository using package management. In this post, we’re going to start looking at how to work with templates in MODx Revolution. We’re going to start with a static HTML/CSS template and, over the next few installments, transform that into a MODx Revolution template.
Catch up:
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installation
Part 3: Basic Configuration and Installing Extras
Continue reading “MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners Part 4 – Working with Templates”
Welcome to Part 6 of the MODx Revolution for Complete Beginners series. In the last installment, we explored the concept of chunks. We created a number of chunks and learned how to use them to organize our template. We also mentioned a few other uses of chunks and learned their tag syntax and how to call them into the template. In this installment, we’re going to explore one of the cool features of MODx – Template Variables (TVs).
