About Backstage MODX
Selective Content Staging For Everyone
Create content with your team without jeopardizing your live site. When any, or all, updates are ready, check them off and push a button. A few seconds later, your production site updates. That’s Backstage™, and it revolutionizes how you manage your sites.
Track all content changes
Pages. Chunks. Templates. And the images and media used on them. Backstage keeps track of everything so all you have to focus on is creating killer content that converts.
Work calmly and confidently
If you've been in the website game long enough, you’ve experienced that moment when you broke a site, deleted the wrong thing, forgot to copy something over, or worse. Backstage empowers you to confidently create content without fear of messing things up. If it looks and works right in Staging, it will in Production, too.
Easy for everyone
If you can work in the MODX Manager, you already have all the skills you need to be a content staging master with Backstage. No stressed-out sysadmins or too-busy developers in the way of getting important content updates written, reviewed, approved, and live.
Advanced redesign workflows
Have a ton of web pages and frequent publishing schedule, but need to work on a site redesign? Backstage has your back! Set up all content to push to a redesign instance and a production environment. That way, your content is already in place when your redesign is done. 🤯
Designed to Help You Succeed
Track Everything
Backstage keeps a list of everything that changes—including images and media on pages and buried in Elements—so you don’t have to try to remember yourself.
Publish Only When Ready
You can push any subset of content, while still working on things that are not quite at that stage.
Forget Things, Too
If you decide something won’t make it to production, press the “Wait for next change” button. It disappears from the list until you update it again.
See Who Made Changes
Backstage shows you who made the changes, so you can talk to colleagues about pending site changes.
Increase Scalability
Working in Production can bog your site down with constant cache clears. Staging sites make that a thing of the past.
Respect Permissions
Use the permissions built into MODX to control who can see Backstage and who can push changes to production.