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A common site type that we build are portfolio pages
which mostly get filled once in the beginning and then only periodically, rather rarely.
They also have almost never User interaction from the Frontend.

So we consider them as almost “readonly” sites.

These sites you can easily speed up “dramatically” with the SilverStripe builtin StaticPublisher.
The tweaks you need for this are moderate to easy.

You can read the Docs to get a glimpse of what is possible.
I will just describe the basic setup to make a site static.
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Silverstripe Tip of the week:

Sometimes you have to remove a customScript of a module, because you want to script it differently.

If the module author was so wise to give his customScript a ID (UserFormsValidation in this case) like they did in UserForms:

Requirements::customScript(<<<JS
    (function($) {...})(jQuery);
JS
, 'UserFormsValidation');

then you can do the following in the init function of your subclass controller:

Requirements::block('UserFormsValidation');

Easy, isnt it?

First off some general thoughts on how to use opengraph metatags.
Since the uprise of Social Media, sharing sites, deeplinking and snippetting content has become a important aspect of SEO and so almost every site has some kind of facebook-like-button to let user easily share the page.
Most sharing endpoints, facebook f.e, bring a more or less good parser/linter to summarize the page content. So the first text paragraph will be taken as text snippet and all images that fit certain requirements will be offered to chose a preview-thumbnail from.
So far so good.
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This is a reoccuring requirement: you need a profile for some object in your project.
FE you have a company, a member or a location that should get an address, a marker on the map, an icon, homepage etc.

So I created a small silverstripe module that adds a profile tab to any object you choose in your Silverstripe CMS backend.

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to be honest i didn’t find a clean way yet, but i thought this workaround might be worth sharing.

…since Silverstripes‘ Userforms Module Uses jQuery for Validation you can put these lines of code in your UserDefinedForm.ss Template: » read more

When you duplicate a page in the Silverstripe Sitetree, related “has_one” Items are automatically copied, which is nice.

But if you have, lets say, multiple related images on that Page, those are not copied when you duplicate that Page. » read more

We thought we had to improve our SilverStripe setup script for our development environment.
So Max and me rewrote it to add submodules and some other improvements.

Just run:

./install_silverstripe.sh mynewproject tags/2.4.7

and you have

• silverstripe project folder structure
• the tutorial theme
• a already filled git repository
• sapphire as submodule
• cms as submodule
• Uploadify as submodule
• DataObjectManager as submodule
• UserForms as submodule

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Alright, SilverStripe again, still our CMS of choice.
Today i’d like to promote a very helpful module that provides Register and Profile Pages for Members for the Frontend.
The memberprofiles module.
It comes with a lot of features and customize options for nearly everthing you might need for Frontend Member Handling.
Further it is fully extendible to customize it even more.

For a starter tutorial i recommend a very good post by deadlytechnology.
I would like to describe how you extend it.

First lets install it (with the orderable module dependency):

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This is a small shell script to set up silverstripe CMS
along with some modules i often use (as seen in ivo’s post)

The script has two parameters:
- the folder to clone the whole thing into
- the branch/tag to checkout afterwards

# install silverstripe + common modules from github
# usage sh install_silverstripe.sh <folder_name> <tag/branch>
# examples:
# sh install_silverstripe.sh some_folder tags/2.4.5
# sh install_silverstripe.sh some_folder master

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Theres a lot of old, deprecated and now wrong installation guides for the SilverStripe Image Gallery Module on the web that will lead you to where you dont want to. Dont trust them!

Unclecheese made some changes to the module dependencies and also moved to git, some time ago. He now uses the new Uploadify module instead of the SwfFileUpload module.

So a working installation of the image-gallery for git-people is to:

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