MODX Digest # 1 (February 25 - March 11, 2019)

Fresh selection of news about MODX. In the release: icons for content types, refactoring of 3 branches from Jason, work on new documentation, thanks to the author on modx.pro and video presentations from all Minsk MODX events.

Enjoy reading!

News and Events

A large MODX Meetup will take place on March 29 in Amsterdam, about 150 participants are expected (maybe more, but the venue is not rubber). There is still time to buy a plane ticket and get the opportunity to chat with the most famous members of the community. Read more at modx.amsterdam .

MODX Development

Thanks to the well-coordinated work of a small team, which Ivan Bochkarev diligently collected, it was possible to put in a little order both the repository itself and, in general, to discover and summarize a whole bunch of problems that need to be fixed in MODX.

In particular, a great deal of work has begun on putting permissions in order for permissions in access policies: dividing permissions into groups, correcting descriptions and translations, correcting the logic of individual permissions, and so on.

Thanks to the efforts and help of Evgeny Borisov, not all but many XSS vulnerabilities in the MODX admin area have been fixed.

It was proposed to add to the repository the file SECURITY.md , which describes the procedure for notification of found vulnerabilities in MODX. Partly, the lack of a clearly described procedure led to the sad events of the summer of 2018, with massive hacks.

Ivan Bochkarev suggested changing the base font for the code and for the admin panel . Look at the screenshots, it became much nicer.

Ivan Klimchuk added the ability to specify icons for content types . Now the pdf-document in the tree will be shown with the desired icon. Previously, it was also possible to do so, but through the creation of an extra template. It's easier now.

Work has begun (and in fact continued) on the transfer of MODX documentation to GitHub simultaneously with the translation into Russian. Everything is stored so far in the repository of Mark Hamstra , the site itself - https://modxdocs.mhserver.nl/ , and here the documentation is in Russian. Get connected!

In addition, Mark has initiated, as part of the work on the documentation, the reorganization of the structure of the documentation itself. You can participate and suggest your ideas in this Google document .

Vasily Naumkin closed his large query with refactoring , but at the same time Jason Coward (according to him) is working on his version of refactoring and promises to show the results of the work from day to day, which resulted, in particular, in a certain code freeze 3 branches. Peculiar, because you can continue to merge changes that do not relate to changes in models. The coming weeks promise to be interesting.

Interesting notes and articles

The site of the community has an opportunity to express gratitude to the author of the article in monetary form. How it works, you can find in the article - Thanks to the author .

Over the past 5 years, several meetings and one big MODX conference have been organized in Minsk. The event organizer is Ivan Klimchuk. He collected all the video performances in one place - on the YouTube channel . See, put likes, subscribe! Post on modx.pro - https://modx.pro/news/17639 .

How to speed up the site on the new algorithm Google Page Speed .

Fighting parsers and bots - antiBot .

yMapObjects - Displays tags on the map with a description in the balloon and filtering objects .

Great video course (14 episodes) on creating a site on MODX from WebDesign Master.

An interesting list of recipes and solutions for MODX . Perhaps someone will be useful.

Setting access policy in MODX Revolution .

High - quality video lessons from GEL Studio . In English, and so far they are few.