--- description: Review of MODX Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: MODX | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Content Management Systems](/directory/4543/cms/software) > [MODX](/software/109872/modx) # MODX Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/109872/modx Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/109872/modx?page=2) > MODX is a content management system that helps businesses of all sizes streamline operations related to content creation, resource management, permission control, and automatic failover handling, among other processes. It enables employees to create blogs, catalogs, landing pages, PDFs and forms with custom fields, menu, layouts and templates. MODX's resource management module lets staff members create tree menus to handle and track digital assets across multiple platforms. Administrators can set up daily data backups and configure attribute-based access controls to ensure content security. It allows team members to create HTML templates for several items, such as navigation bar, footer, header and previews. Additionally, the snapshots and staging functionality lets employees clone sites and stage content. MODX comes with an application programming interface (API), which allows businesses to integrate the platform with several third-party solutions. It is available on monthly and annual subscriptions and support is extended via FAQs, community forums, email and documentation. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 64 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 64 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: MODX ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$30.00 - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Plans vary in features. Please contact MODX for trial. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Linux (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: United States ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Audio File Management - Collaboration Tools - Configurable Workflow - Content Management - Content Publishing Options - Customisable Branding - Customisable Forms - Customisable Templates - Document Capture - Document Classification - Document Management - Document Storage - Drag & Drop - Electronic Forms - File Management - Filtering - Full Text Search - Image Editing ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4543/cms/software) ## Related Categories - [Content Management Systems](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4543/cms/software) - [Mobile Content Management Solutions](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4317/mobile-content-management-system/software) - [Records Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/1859/records-management/software) - [Enterprise Content Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/3485/enterprise-content-management-system/software) - [Document Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/722/document-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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We extend MODX daily and use it for all kinds of things, regular simple marketing sites, eCommerce, higher-functioning websites, web apps, and even as a headless css with custom API. It's secure, flexible and can handle ANYTHING we throw at it. > > **Cons**: If you're not a developer (either backend or frontend) you're going to have a hard time. MODX is NOT for those who are used to the relative simplicity of something like WordPress. And to be honest, that's for the best. MODX allows you to design and build whatever you want, keep it optimized and secure... BUT, if you're looking to just customize a theme, modx would NOT be a good fit > > Over nine years experience using MODX and would not trade it for the world. We love MODX, the community and stability of the platform. ----- ### "Be the CMS" — 5.0/5 > **Peter** | *31 March 2023* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Speed, SEO, Security, Flexibility, customization. > > **Cons**: There's nothing I dislike. Get yourself on the MODXcloud\! > > MODX offers me complete customization to tailor a website to my clients businesses needs. No two MODX websites are alike because MODX isn't a cookie-cutter CMS. I've deployed websites on just about every CMS and ran into one issue or another before I found MODX. I say “Yes\!” to any client request knowing that there are at least 3 ways to address business needs as they respond to changing business environments. ----- ### "Good idea, but outdated developer experience" — 4.0/5 > **Andreas** | *18 September 2023* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 1.0/10 > > **Pros**: Over all, the configurability and control over your code (frontend \& backend) are pretty well. As a developer I can build any website and any plugin with that system. > > **Cons**: The UI and UX. Creating websites with snippets and partials and other code injection methods is way too complicated. There are no tabs to work on different snippets/sites parallel, to compare code etc.Also, there are poor keyboard-commands for the navigation through the contents. However if you like big clicking-orgies to create your website, MODX is the tool of choice. > > We've created a complex website for a customer with MODX. We tried out MODX because the customer's designer gave a recommendation to us for using that tool. As we didn't know OctoberCMS back in those days we've been giving it a try. Overall it worked well and the website is still on and performs well, however we found the developer-experience too poor to use MODX with any other website. ----- ### "This is the best CMS software available today. Easily." — 5.0/5 > **Murray** | *31 March 2019* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Our agency Digital Penguin has switched to using MODX for nearly all our client projects now. It is the fastest, most flexible and secure Content Management System (CMS) that we've ever had the pleasure of using. There are no restrictions in how you implement a design and it's easily the best system for SEO as you have complete control over the HTML output. There is an amazing, friendly community of people using MODX who are eager to help you learn the system, and plugins/extras are available to extend the CMS in any way you need. Don't settle for Wordpress, Joomla or any other system you need to waste time wrestling with to customize the way you want. MODX is quick, easy to learn and designed to be customized. > > **Cons**: There's nothing I dislike about the software so far\! With MODX 3 around the corner, things are only going to improve too. > > Switching to MODX has been a dream. Our agency now saves so much development time and we end up with better quality products than we used to with other systems like Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal. I cannot recommend MODX enough. Our clients love it too\! ----- ### "What a great CMS for every beginner and its user frienly Environment is really excellent.\!" — 5.0/5 > **saif** | *17 June 2021* | Textiles | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The best feature of this software is that It is really easy to learn for every beginner.The SEO freindly web can easily customized due to open source code integration and third party plugin usage. > > **Cons**: Although every product have some prons and cons so MODX also have some of them.Some of the issue I have found that it stuck for some time If its not getting updated.Some features are hard to explore like importing exporting some files of having unique extensions. > > I don't know what people think about this CMS But I always find a best solution for customization of the web and its services.Best SEO freindly CMS I have ever used for this lowest price.Our small business team really appreciate the company for the simplicity of the software. 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