MODX

Is MODX actively maintained?

Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 84 commits, of which 25 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 8 commits a month.

No tagged releases are published, so there is no stable version to pin to — you would deploy from the default branch or a container image built from it.

MODX ranks #36 of 48 tracked content management systems (cms) projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.

What MODX actually does

MODX Revolution is a content management and publishing platform written in PHP under the GPL-2.0 licence. It provides tools for managing digital content and structuring web publications on your own infrastructure.

Best fit: It suits developers and system administrators who require a customisable, self-hosted PHP publishing platform with full control over the underlying source code.

Worth knowing: The project shows signs of slowing maintenance health, which may present long-term security and update challenges for production environments.

Deployment notes

As a PHP application, it typically requires a web server such as Nginx or Apache, a relational database like MySQL or MariaDB, and persistent storage for uploaded files.

Links

• Official website
• Source code