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MODX Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to MODX
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Strapi
🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable, and developer-first.
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Directus
The flexible backend for all your projects 🐰 Turn your DB into a headless CMS, admin panels, or apps with a custom UI, instant APIs, auth & more.
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Grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS powered by PHP, Markdown, Twig, and Symfony
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Umbraco
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
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TYPO3
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
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Bolt
Discontinued Bolt is a simple CMS written in PHP. It is based on Silex and Symfony components, uses Twig and either SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL. (by bolt)
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Drupal
Verbatim mirror of the git.drupal.org repository for Drupal core. Please see the https://github.com/drupal/drupal#contributing. PRs are not accepted on GitHub.
NOTE:
The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better MODX alternative or higher similarity.
MODX discussion
MODX reviews and mentions
Posts with mentions or reviews of MODX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-14.
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Looking for PHP based CMS-like platform
Check MODX
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What are people using these days to build commercial small scale websites?
I’ve found https://modx.com/ to be alright for me with some basic sysadmin skills.
- Lokking for CMS to Manage Multiple Websites
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Simple client for blogging (but not too simple)
Another I like that's open source is mod5 https://modx.com/ but it's not so much blogging.
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what can I do to improve my website speed?
I've also heard good things about ModX and I used to use Perch (but that requires a license per site).
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Stats
Basic MODX repo stats
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1,397
8.8
28 days ago
modxcms/revolution is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
MODX is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of MODX is PHP.
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