Silverstripe CMS

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Silverstripe CMS
Developer(s) Silverstripe
Stable release
5.2.0 [1] / 2024-04-15 [±]
Repository Silverstripe Repository
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Content management system
License BSD License [2]
Website silverstripe.org

Silverstripe CMS is a free and open source content management system (CMS) and framework for creating and maintaining websites and web applications. It provides an out of the box web-based administration panel that enables users to make modifications to parts of the website, which includes a WYSIWYG website editor. The core of the software is Silverstripe Framework, a PHP Web application framework.

Contents

Silverstripe CMS is released under the terms of the BSD License.

Software design

Silverstripe CMS separates the roles of:

This contrasts with CMS products which allow technical website development tasks to be performed within a GUI, and also contrasts with programming frameworks which offer no out-of-the-box content authoring application. The Silverstripe CMS approach allegedly removes complexity for content authors, and offers more flexibility to developers. [3]

The core of Silverstripe CMS is named Silverstripe Framework (formerly referred to as "Sapphire"). [4] As with the rest of the platform, it is written in PHP (5.3), and takes advantage of its object-oriented design capabilities such as name-spacing. The Silverstripe Framework provides website developers a framework to build and extend websites based on modern programming techniques including the model-view-controller pattern and object-relational mapper.[ citation needed ]

Silverstripe CMS generates markup using a custom template-language based on W3C HTML5 that offers simple placeholders and conditional logic. Silverstripe CMS is extensible through modules, widgets, themes and code customization.

Features

Silverstripe CMS 3.1 Administration Panel and Simple theme SilverStripe 3.1 Administration and theme.png
Silverstripe CMS 3.1 Administration Panel and Simple theme
Default website theme in Silverstripe CMS CMS 2.3 SilverStripe-Default-Theme-2.2.jpg
Default website theme in Silverstripe CMS CMS 2.3

Notable features of the Silverstripe CMS include:

Notable features of upcoming releases of Silverstripe CMS include:

Common CMS features not currently available in Silverstripe CMS include:

Modules, widgets, and themes

Modules can be used to extend the core functionality of Silverstripe CMS. Some existing modules include: Blog, Advanced Workflow Management, eCommerce, Forum, and LDAP/OpenID authentication. Modules are available from the Silverstripe CMS modules repository, which as of October 2022, lists over 3000 modules.

Silverstripe CMS Widgets are small pieces of functionality that can be drag-and-dropped into Silverstripe CMS modules (notably the blog module). Examples of widgets include: tag clouds, Flickr photos, or word of the day. Widgets are a relatively less-used aspect of the platform. As of August 2012, there are 96 widgets.

The Silverstripe CMS themes directory provides a number of community-contributed, freely available themes (114 as of October 2022).

Modules, widgets, and themes are all available as free downloads under the BSD license, and the majority of them are community contributed.

Software requirements

Silverstripe CMS is a web application, requiring a compatible web server and SQL database. As of version 5.2, the requirements for Silverstripe CMS are as follows: [6]

Documentation

Silverstripe CMS is released under the terms of the BSD License. Documentation is available for CMS users and website developers. An online demonstration of the CMS is available as an interactive demo. Two technical reference books on Silverstripe CMS are available in English [8] and one in German. [9]

Recognition

Awards

Reviews and articles

Version 3.0 (latest as of November 2012)

  • SSBits (10 September 2012) [15]

Version 2

  • SilverStripe Review (3 April 2009) [16]
  • Microsoft Case Study (17 March 2009) [17]
  • ReadWriteWeb, 14 September 2007 [18]
  • Interview on New Zealand Television Show, 1 May 2007, (Video) [19]
  • Hiveminds Magazine, 15 March 2007 [20]

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References

  1. ↑ "Stable Download". silverstripe.org. Retrieved 2024-04-15.
  2. ↑ "BSD License".
  3. ↑ "SilverStripe CMS - Our Philosophy". 2011-01-19. Archived from the original on 2011-01-16. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
  4. ↑ "Framework". www.silverstripe.org. Retrieved 2021-06-04.
  5. ↑ "SilverStripe Translation Portal".
  6. ↑ "SilverStripe server requirements". Archived from the original on 2024-02-07. Retrieved 2024-02-22.
  7. ↑ "4.5.0". docs.silverstripe.org. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  8. ↑ "English SilverStripe Book". 2009-10-10. Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
  9. ↑ "SilverStripe - Das umfassende Handbuch (450 page book about SilverStripe, in German)". 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2009-02-25.
  10. ↑ "2008 Most Promising Open Source CMS Announced". Archived from the original on 2009-08-30. Retrieved 2008-10-30.
  11. ↑ "SilverStripe Takes Home NZ Open-Source Award". Archived from the original on 2008-10-14.
  12. ↑ "2007 Open Source CMS Award Finalists". Archived from the original on 2007-10-27.
  13. ↑ "Previous Finalists and Winners | nzosa". Archived from the original on 2010-11-24.
  14. ↑ "Silverstripe CMS - Silverstripe".
  15. ↑ SilverStripe 3 Review
  16. ↑ "SilverStripe - 2.3 series Review". 2009-04-03. Archived from the original on 2010-02-06. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  17. ↑ "SilverStripe-Windows interoperability creates new markets and fresh opportunities for open source company". Microsoft.com. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  18. ↑ SilverStripe - Open Source CMS Has Support From Google
  19. ↑ Close Up, Democratic Technology
  20. ↑ SilverStripe CMS is proof that open-source works
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