Silverstripe CMS Reviews

It's an incredibly flexible platform that we've worked with for over 10 years building everything from microsites to digital products. It offers a high level of security and a fantastic user experience.

It lacks presence in the UK, despite being very popular in Europe and it's native New Zealand. And it's marketing website really doesn't do the platform justice.

Silverstripe gives us a platform where we can just say "yes" to client requests. We don't need to rely on plugins of dubious quality, it gives us all the tools and framework to develop excellent bespoke websites.

It's scalability - we have used it for enterprise clients and small start-ups alike. It isn't bloated which means it's lightweight - you can effectively use it headless if needed.

Market penetration (outside of Australia/NZ) is still relatively low. That can be a barrier for clients and procurement teams - many of whom will not have heard of it.

Excellent CMS usability - genuinely easy for clients to manage content (if set up correctly).

Very scalable - great framework for data management where you perhaps don't need a CMS, e.g. a client platform.

Fantastic templating language.

Easy to use, 100% customizable, you have the hand on ANY HTML output and it's based on the MVC design pattern, so it's clearly OOP, with easy autocompleting. ".ss" extension is probably one of the best I've used as well. I've made modules probly more easily than on any other CMS (beside Drupal 8). When it comes to explain to my clients how to administrate their websites, they rarely come back to me after that. Upgrading is quite easy as well. The administration is really easy to understand, you can add custom tabs almost anywhere and manage almost any types of fields (varchar, text, boolean, file). File uploading is easy as well, form submissions is a real peace of cake.

I also really like their beginner tutorial, it covers almost everything Silverstripe offers out of the box. Their documentation is quite easy to manage as well and their API does the job!

Sadly, the community is a bit small, the forum is even a bit left behind for a slack channel.

Just go for it, develop your own website with it for a testing purpose, and you'll adopt it!

I'm developping 99% of my websites with Silverstripe. The only one I haven't developped with SS was an website/e-commerce, I picked Drupal. But SS is far more easy to use.

I liked how straightforward the UI was of this CMS. It was refreshing coming from Wordpress where its so overcomplicated. I felt like I only saw what I needed to and didn't have too many features available that I'd never touch. Navigating through the CMS was easy as well. User-friendly all around.

As an Account Manager, I had to work more with my development team for any serious changes. In other CMS's I've used I could customize things a bit more. I found myself calling upon help of my dev for those times.

Look at what items in your current CMS you use. Knowing what features you need will show you if this is the right product.

For clients who aren't keen with tech, we used this simplified CMS so they could maintain their blogs on their site. It was much easier to use for them.

The CMS is both easy to use for content managers and developers to work in. The sitetree is a feature of the CMS that many others do not have and make it very easy and understandable for managers to visualize their site.

Not a lot of pre-built themes or templates available like for other CMS's like Wordpress.

Ability for amateur computer users to be able to manage their own website. Ability to hand off a website build to our client and they can manage everything on their site with very little training or support needed.

The CMS is both easy to use for content managers and developers to work in. The sitetree is a feature of the CMS that many others do not have and make it very easy and understandable for managers to visualize their site.

Not a lot of pre-built themes or templates available like for other CMS's like Wordpress.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The modular and headless approach and how easy it is for our clients to use

Lack of exposure or awareness in the market.

Content framework services

Silverstripe is probably one of the best alternatives to Wordpress. It is secure, highly customizable and a flexible CMS to create and maintain websites as well as web applications. It gives you real control over the most complicated and complex websites.

Silverstripe has dropped support for Internet Explorer in December 2021, and while it may sound like a legitimate move, that was not a desirable move. Moreover, sometimes when you upgrade to a newer version, you've to shell some money out of your pocket to use all the fresh features.

SilverStripeCMS comes with a Free Demo. Try it out as much as you want before committing to it. and do not get overwhelmed by its first experience. This is much easier to use than a lot of other CMS available.

Assuming that once the website is built, someone with smaller technical experience has to manage it, Silverstripe scores here as it is very easy to use and not quite sophisticated and complex as some of its competitors. My content development speed was increased manifolds using this flexible CMS.

Highly customizable and extensible CMS unlike many of the blog like CMSs like WordPress out there. Comes with a framework and CMS. CMS interface is quite intuitive. Site can be customized to perform any feature imaginable. PHP based.

Does have a high learning curve but worth it once it's learned.

Highly customizable and extensible CMS with intuitive editing interface. Has a slightly difficult learning curve but worth the effort.

We needed to provide a CMS solution for our clients who have differing needs and are able to meet their requirements with SilverStripe.

Highly customizable and extensible CMS unlike many of the blog like CMSs like WordPress out there. Comes with a framework and CMS. CMS interface is quite intuitive. Site can be customized to perform any feature imaginable. PHP based.

Does have a high learning curve but worth it once it's learned.

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What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?