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Extending SilverStripe 3 Site Settings Part 1
When you first install your SilverStripe site, the 'Settings' menu is pretty limited, offering just Title, Tagline, and a choice of templates.
Creating a Totally Custom Page in the Admin Area
SilverStripe 3 has a pretty nice looking admin area, but sometimes you may want to create a totally custom page within the admin area.
Silverstripe 3 Many Many - A Comprehensive Example
In this article we're going to a create a very simple shop. We'll create pages for various product categories. And we'll create products. Some our products will appear in more than one category.
Silverstripe 3 Grid Field Config Options
The grid field system in Silverstripe 3 has a number of preset config options - here's what they do, and what they look like:
How to make a Photo Gallery in Silverstripe 3
This tutorail will go through setting a PhotoGallery page, 'has_many' Photos. We'll use the grid field componant to manage the photos within the admin area, and we'll add an extra module to let us upload many images at once - saving a lot of time.
Silverstripe 3.0.2 Grid Fields with Thumbnails
Silverstripe 3 has been out for a few months now, and most the big bugs have been fixed... This tutorial describes the code required to set up a grid feild to manage 'Has Many' relations. Eg - a staff page that lists many staff members.
Customising a Theme Using Sub Themes
Why? Maybe you've set up a series of websites for a company, three site and the theme is almost the same on each one, but not quite. You could copy and modify the theme three times, but it would be better to keep the main theme intact, and have a...
Silverstripe Themes for IPhones
More and more people are viewing websites on their phones and tablet PCs. For some of my web sites, there figure is about 10% and rising. The good news for web designers, is that smart phones and tablet PCs nowadays are pretty much just small screened PCs, and the web...
Using Custom Fonts in Silverstripe
Once there was a time when you were limited to Arial, Times or Courier in your website. Now you can use pretty much any font you like to complement your website.
Downloading and Installing Silverstripe on CPANEL
cPanel is one of the most common control panel system around, so we'll run through instructions for this system.
A Basic Guide to Creating 'Page Types' in the Silvestripe CMS
'Page Types' form the core of your silverstripe sites, they can be very simple, or very very complicated! (We'll start with simple.)