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Understanding System Events and Plugins

A look at System Events and Plugins from the inside.

Get a Link to the First Child of the Current Resource

A snippet to produce a link to the first child of the current resource, or any other resource

LogPageNotFound Widget

Susan Ottwell's adaptation of my LogPageNotFound extra puts the page-not-found report in a Manager dashboard widget

Why Extend modResource?

Realize amazing speed increases by extending the modResource object in MODX

Why Extend modUser?

Extending the modUser object for speed and efficiency

How To Tell If a Table Exists

A quick tip for checking on the existence of a database table in PHP code

Don't Be a Nester

Some advice on nesting MODX tags

Changing the Name of the (Anonymous) User

You might not want to say "Hello (anonymous)" on your pages. Here's how to change that.

Dude, Where's My CSS?

Things to check when your CSS fails to load

Get Child TV Values

Getting the TV values for children of the current resource in MODX.