SilverStripe CMS Review

Hi

 

I recently downloaded and installed SilverStrip version 2.2 Content Management System

 

After downlaod and uncompressing into my www folder

 

- I when to isntallation script and had to do few changes like editing PHP.ini and changing permissions of some files and folders

- Then it installed and started quite well and i could edit my home page

 

Problem 1:

 

Website Name in Header: "Your Site name Here"  ... & tagline that appear on the top header... was not editable form the CMS admin interface ..

Very Surprising !!! this is the prime and first think that most CMS allow you to do. There wa sno mention of it in their training material.

In forums i could find some people breaking head like me... then some developer of Silverstripe gave long description as how to add functions in many

files to achieve this... oops I tried and CMS crashed... later i could see a simple comment by other developer to edit one theme file and i could change this.

 

This is big problem it clearly show that its immature CMS

 

Problem 2: i installed blog and forum addons...

The blog crashed... with error.. then again in forums found that some PHP file need editing and has a mistake...I edited and corrected it

THe mistake was very surprising.. it indicated that they only have developers and probbly need some commone CMS users to give them some feedback and test their systems..

 

Problem 3 : Youtube library module i installed nevery worked and i could not even find anything in forums..

 

 

 

Overall though they have used some innovative designs and Layouts to show how to edit file and create list of documents.. its far far from beign a mature CMS.

 

Probably wait for atleast 2-3 major release with atleast few thousand customers using ti for day to day work..

 

Thanks