Sometimes MODX seems like magic, and the auto publishing feature is one of those cases. After being prompted by someone on the MODX forums, Bob Ray dived into the source code to find out exactly how it works, writing up the results on his blog.

The MODX team has published another MODX Cloud Update, this time to talk about a renewed billing platform, new plans, updates to the server stack and more upcoming changes.

We've already featured Bob Ray's excellent posts on MODX.today, and today we'd like to share his series about developing snippets in MODX. It's 7 pieces in total, covering the basics and more advanced possibilities and best practices. Here's part 1 and follow these links for the rest: part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and part 7.

Make your code more robust, and easier to maintain by using the MODX getChunk() method.

The MODXpo Munich team has announced two workshops that will take place on Monday, November 23rd. The choice is yours, with a full day workshop about responsive design patterns and front-end techniques by Smashing Magazine's Vitaly Friedman (€199), or a half-day workshop by Sterc's Gauke Pieter Sietzema about using Vagrant as the ultimate local development setup (€99). 

If you ever need to restrict access to specific pages depending on how old they, Bob Ray has you covered with a very useful snippet. The snippet will allow different user groups access to a page at different ages of the post.