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MODX vs WordPress: What are the differences?
MODX: A free, open source content management system *. It is the web content management system (CMS) that gives you complete control over your site and content, with the flexibility and scalability to grow with your business. Get Creative Freedom. It supports your creative vision, with no restrictions and no compromise; *WordPress:** A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.
MODX and WordPress can be primarily classified as "Self-Hosted Blogging / CMS" tools.
Some of the features offered by MODX are:
- Unparalleled Speed & Scale
- Fine-grained user permissions
- robust configuration options
On the other hand, WordPress provides the following key features:
- Flexibility
- Publishing Tools
- User Management
WordPress is an open source tool with 12.7K GitHub stars and 7.78K GitHub forks. Here's a link to WordPress's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of MODX
- Open source2
- Free1
Pros of WordPress
- Customizable417
- Easy to manage368
- Plugins & themes356
- Non-tech colleagues can update website content259
- Really powerful248
- Rapid website development145
- Best documentation78
- Codex51
- Product feature set44
- Custom/internal social network35
- Open source18
- Great for all types of websites8
- Huge install and user base7
- Perfect example of user collaboration5
- Most websites make use of it5
- Best5
- It's simple and easy to use by any novice5
- I like it like I like a kick in the groin5
- Open Source Community5
- Community4
- API-based CMS4
- Easy To use3
- <a href="https://secure.wphackedhel">Easy Beginner</a>2
- Flexibility1
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Cons of MODX
Cons of WordPress
- Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things13
- Plugins are of mixed quality13
- Not best backend UI10
- Complex Organization2
- Forced to use LAMP stack1
- Great Security1
- Do not cover all the basics in the core1
