Earlier this year, MODX3 was all the rage, with weekly updates and an immense sprint that was actively reported on social media and here, on MODX.today. Since the final MODX3 project statement in July, which included a first alpha build for testing, it has been a bit quieter. So.. what's happening?

Since MODX 2.5.7 it's no longer possible, out of the box, to create .htaccess files. You might run into this when setting up a new MODX site with friendly URLs, where you get an error when renaming the shipped ht.access file to .htaccess. Luckily there's an easy way to get that back.

I've recently been working on a project with Formalicious where the client requested dynamically-filled select inputs. This is pretty straightforward to set up, as shown in this tutorial.

Have you ever faced the problem, that you created a layout using an image with a defined aspect ratio, but the image you want to use has a different aspect ratio? Or do you need an image in a getResources output with a different aspect ratio than the original image displayed on another resource? In both cases, the image you want to use can't be cropped automatic, because the subject of the image may not be in the center. Introducing Image+. 

Having discussed what we know about MODX 3 so far last week, John-Paul DeVries shares his thoughts on accessibility and the importance of making breaking changes to MODX so it can be used by anyone anywhere. 

The PHP Version usage of MODX sites can be tracked by the Package Providers used. modmore offers such a package provider for our free and premium extras, and in this article we've taken our sample of 3565 MODX sites running v2.4 or up, and summarised the PHP version they use by minor version.