SnippetsSpice up Your CMS Sitetree

27 August 2009 | Martijn van Nieuwenhoven | CMS, Images, Site Tree | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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TutorialsAutofill MetaDescription and MetaKeywords on page save

28 July 2009 | Martijn van Nieuwenhoven | CMS, Templates | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Most of my customers don't want to add meta info manually, so I add an onBeforeWrite() function to update the Meta Description field and count the keyword density of the content with a separate function and add these keywords to the Meta Keywords fields when a page is saved.

In my humble SEO opinion every page needs an unique Meta Description. Keywords seems to be less important for search engines, but why not add them automatically anyway! The function counts how many times each word exist in the Content, order the words by occurrence and glues the words to a comma separated string. In this function only words with more then 4 characters are counted, but you can adjust that if you like.

BlogVote Now! - March Site of the Month

14 March 2011 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Site of the Month

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So here they are (finally) the best 5 entries from this month, and there are some crackers! Let the voting commense!

SnippetsSilverStripe developer bookmarklets

2 April 2012 | Jono Menz | CMS, SilverStripe | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Here are some handy dynamic bookmarklets for your browser for one click access to things like rebuilding the database, flushing the cache and accessing the CMS!

SnippetsHide pages in Sitetree that a user can't edit

15 September 2009 | Howard Grigg | CMS, Security, Site Tree, Member | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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SnippetsCreate and use a Permission code

18 April 2009 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Security, Member | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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Have you wanted to add an extra permission code that you can add to groups and then use that to test whether a particular user has that permission? Here's how it's done. The permission code it self is added via the Controller class, then you use a permission check anywhere in your site code to check the current user. Like so:

TutorialsEmbed flash content using SWFObject

3 December 2009 | Roman Schmid | CMS, Templates, JavaScript | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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There are numerous ways to embed flash content into your SilverStripe Website. A commonly used and very flexible method to embed flash is provided by the SWFObject script. In this snippet I'll show you how to create a custom FlashPage that will contain flash content, embedded using SWFObject.

TutorialsAdding a CMS action

1 September 2009 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Forms, Decorators | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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If like me you cannot figure out how on earth to use the updateCMSActions() function in a decorator and you also can't get the getCMSActions() function to find your custom method inside the controller then here is a way to make it work, which will allow you to create custom actions and buttons to trigger those actions within the CMS.

TutorialsUse Markdown format with SilverStripe

6 May 2012 | Howard Grigg | CMS, WYSIWYG | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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If you are sick of fumbling with TinyMCE but still want a way to include editable HTML styled content fields in the CMS then Markdown may be the answer.