Hi all !

I am a new fresh member of this forum and I have to ask you : why do I choose Silerstripe ?

I looking a CMS for my futur customer website and I heart balance between SylverStripe and Concrete5.

Could you please, as usual user of silverstripe, tell me why you choose silverstripe ?
Hope you could help me to find my way

F.

It really depends on what you expect from a framework / CMS.

The main difference of SilverStripe in comparison to all other CMSs is that its focus really relies solely on the developer. With the CMS being a accessory item with its only purpose to manage content. It's not a DIY site builder. The user has to have a technical background to build websites.

A CMS-User cannot alter templates or edit scripts or stylesheets or require add-ons. With that much missing, it's incredibly easy for content editors to edit content.

Everything is defined in code, making it easy for the developer to enforce corporate identity and maintain clean secure code.

Thanks Delvin !

SS seems to be a very good product. I like how it has been thought.

I'm a freelancer and Im' looking a solution to make website for several company.
Wordpress is good but it's a blog system at start ..
Concrete5 seems to have the same approch of SS but look like a big factory...I dont believe it when I saw "250 table" on a fresh install (and 100Mo of files)

SilverStripe looks like clearest.
Videos "HowTo" are great for a beginner
Can you advise me about must have add on for SEO please ?
Do you know the limit of SS with a middle-low end server or shared hosting
Some CMS can (with add on) publish automaticly on social network when author publish new content. Does this kind of add on exist on SS ?

Regards

Hi there

As said previously SS is a framework that mostly focuses on Developers. As such, I found that when I started on SS I was coding much of the code myself for various reasons.

A 'quick fix' for Google Analytics for example, was for me to add the following into Page.php in the init() function:

Requirements::customScript(<<<JS
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
(i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
})(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

ga('create', 'UA-XXX', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
JS
);

As I got to know SS I started getting comfortable with the idea of installing modules. Now there are some of them I cannot live without.
For search engine optimization, and for a clean install of SS, these are the modules that I almost always include:
Google Site Maps (https://github.com/silverstripe-labs/silverstripe-googlesitemaps)
Silver Stripe Recaptcha (https://github.com/chillu/silverstripe-recaptcha)
and Silver Stripe Google Analytics (https://github.com/silverstripe-labs/silverstripe-googleanalytics)

There are many more modules available, and you will find that once you understand the framework, is easy to install (and if really needed, modify) the modules.

Regards

Thanks for your message !

You have complete control over the HTML output of any given page. This means that SEO is up to you. Most 'SEO modules' from other systems are nothing more than marketing nonsense (They don't do much, it is just something the 'use me' page lists to attract people). If they do do something, it is normally around formatting links and other silly things that make little difference - generally for people who are not developers.

Simple clean code website with good content is the only true secret to SEO. With silverstripe you have full control over this.
Suggested server requirements are listed on the documentation pages, however it is very advisable to put Silverstripe on it's own server. They are very cheap these days from Linode or Digital Ocean, etc. rather than shared hosting (shared hosting will work, but support/speed is generally better if you know how yourself).
The post above lists many 'social' modules.

@Pyromanik, a big thanks, that's a goog answer and please me !

Another point that not many people have touched on is that SilverStripe is great in the area of development speed.
There is not much boiler-plate code that needs to go on to make a site, even with developer modifications.

This means that you can get a site built very quickly, focussing only the bits you need to (such as design, maybe a few custom elements). Of course this depends entirely on how complex the project is of course.

This talk can be downloaded and viewed for a little more info on this with some small examples (aimed at moderately experienced developers, but is in English only). https://github.com/NightJar/talk-silverstripe_intro
But of course don't copy the samples, find exsiting addons ;) https://addons.silverstripe.org has many, only develop for the missing features!