MODx Revolution 2.0.0 Beta2 Released

My partner Greg will probably blog about this a lot more on his blog because he primarily handles all of our MODx projects as to where I handle most of our WordPress projects.  Not having worked with MODx very much I am still impressed with all that it brings to the table in terms of rapid deployment and content management.

If you are looking for a good enterprise level content management system there are several of them out there, Drupal, Joomla, and even WordPress has enterprise level applications these days, but for us MODx has been a great platform for us to build upon.  We recommend it highly whenever we talk with other developers and one of the things that we like about it the most is that it is supported by a highly active community of developers.  The activity in the support forum at MODx is unlike anything you have ever seen tied to open source software.

If you are already familiar with MODx, here’s a short list of the improvements / new functionality that makes up Revolution 2.0.0.

• Manager upgraded to ExtJS 3.0 from 2.2; now faster and more responsive.
• You now can drag/drop Elements and Resources directly into any content field and watch as it builds the tag for you.
• We’ve added a Visual Tag Builder for Elements, where after drag/dropping them into fields, you can select a Property Set and customize values from a form, and watch it build the tag syntax for you after you’re done.
• Now you can Quick Update or Create any type of Element or Resource. Don’t want to leave a page to update another Document? Quick Update it!
• Toggle your Manager layout between tab-based and portal based with a setting.
• Speed improvements to the backend manager.
• Fixed issues with uninstalling packages; they properly revert and save zipped copies of older versions.
• Package Download section now grays out packages you’ve already downloaded.
• Manage all Plugins assigned to an Event now easily from an intuitive grid.
• Added new methods for zip compression for installation and packaging that speeds up install time.
• Many, many bug fixes across the framework

As soon as I get caught up on a few projects I have going on I plan on spending some time getting acquainted with it on one of our sandbox environments.

Update: This just goes to show the response time that all of the people surrounding the MODx project have regarding support, etc.  I just posted this blog post on my blog and walked to the kitchen to get a bottle of water.  When I returned I already had a comment waiting on me from Shaun with Collabpad.  Here’s what he had to say regarding the beta 3 release:

You might want to check out 2.0-beta-3. There was an important security fix in beta3 that we recommend users upgrade to.

Thanks for the article! We’re glad you like MODx, and hope you enjoy the future of MODx in Revolution. Feel free to leave us feedback and suggestions for Revolution on our forums (they are super active! it’s crazy!)

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