What is the best way to create a Modx blog in 2020

Hello!
I create a business card site. I want to implement a blog in tile style, like this https://makebecool.com/blog. Tell me, now in 2020, how is it best to implement? Which tool?

Very easy with articles.

https://docs.modx.com/current/en/extras/articles/index

you don’t need articles. Articles is not very flexible and has lots of hardcoded stuff, like unchangable snippet-calls and that.

you could just use resources. For better organizing them, you could use the collections - addon…

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Thanks for the advice!
Then I want to create a blog through resources using PdTools to display posts on the blog page. What do you think about this?

If you just want to display a nice grid of blog posts (resources) like in your example site, that’s definitely a good and probably the most performant way to go. Like Bruno said you might want to use the Collections extra though, to avoid having a huge resource tree and to get a bunch of other nice features.

I used Articles in the past and I agree very much that you can get stuck easily with it when you try to customize it further.

Thanks again for all the tips! Thanks to you, I decided on the method. And already started implementation :slight_smile:

Cool, also check ouy pdoPage.

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