von WavyDavy
13.07.2009 06:07:46

I would love to give this app a 5 star rating but lack of support for nested urls, a feature they have promised since 2007 and yet to have delivered is a deal breaker for me. It's url rewriting is also not compatible with IIS 5.1 and the only fix is to buy a third party app. If you must use Silverstripe I would suggest you install using wampp or xampp instead of webpi, you will have less problems. In the meantime I am going to go with either umbraco, kenticocms, or wordpress.

von Adrian Westlake
31.03.2009 07:03:48

After considering a number of other solutions, both paid and open-source, Silverstripe provided us with the most flexible solution for our clients. The fantastic administration interface makes updating it a piece of cake for non-technical users. There are a few niggles I have with it, but the superb IRC and support network, make answers to these problems very quickly resolved.

von Dieter Orens (dio5)
31.03.2009 00:03:54

I've tried a few other CMS's before running into this one, but there wasn't any that met my requirements: complete freedom of templating and an easy to extend backend model. This is what's so great about Silverstripe: how easy it is to customise the CMS, add extra fields, create 'special' pages. Adding custom variables to the templates is also a piece of cake thanks to the MVC-pattern and some clever OO PHP. I doubt there is another Open Source one that can beat this one. Thanks guys and keep up the good work!