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MODX (the company) in Brief

Project started 2004
Has two Open Source content management platforms: MODX Evolution and MODX Revolution
MODX Evolution (“Evo”) was first released publicly in 2005
MODX Revolution (“Revo”) is a complete rewrite of Evo, and saw it’s first stable release in 2010
Both Evo and Revo are actively maintained and developed and are each used by tens of thousands of users to power hundreds of thousands of websites
MODX, LLC, was founded in May 2010, is privately held and headquartered in Dallas, TX
Operations are supported by employees and contractors in the US (Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Redmond, Taos), Canada (Nova Scotia, Ontario) and England
User and Developer Community of more than 31,000
Downloads of the core software surpassed 1,000,000
Active International communities and translations in more than 20 different languages
The largest geographic market for MODX is the United States, but it only represents < 20% of all website traffic globally

The Applicable Alphabet Soup (What is MODX)

MODX is a content management platform, equal parts PHP application framework and Content Management System (CMS).

MODX excels at Web Content Management (WCM) and Content Management Framework (CMF) duties.

Our History in Brief

Born out of the frustration of working with tools that restricted design choices or that were difficult to use, MODX was built as a solution for the needs to help us build better solutions for our clients:

Provide a simple template system that can standards-based XHTML/CSS or inhibit design in any way,
Help users quickly build login-protected site content,
Create a sensible, robust and extendable API,
Should organize content in a logical and understandable manner,
Avoid the tortuous or extended learning curves found in many other CMSes, and
Work equally as well for a simple marketing website and for more complex applications.

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In the News

MODx Revolution 2.0.5 is released

CMS Report | Dec 09, 2010 | Tags: release

As yesterday's press release mentioned, MODx Revolution 2.0.5 has been publicy released. I thought I would briefly focus on some of the specific changes in this minor release update from the MODx team.

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The MODx Revolution 2.0 Interview

CMS Report | Aug 03, 2010 | Tags: release, interview

In late July, MODx Revolution 2.0 was released. Before the project's release, I interviewed though email Ryan Thrash, CEO and co-founder of the MODx project, as well as Jay Gilmore. In a joint response, they graciously answered some of my questions about MODx. Below are my questions and their responses from our MODx interview.

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MODx Revolution Targets Drupal, Joomla Markets

CMS Wire | Jul 22, 2010 | Tags: release, revolution

This past March we saw a hint of what was coming from the open source Web CMS project called MODx (news, site). Now their latest release, MODx Revolution v2.0, has officially arrived. This is the future of the MODx project. Let's take a peek.

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