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SilverStripe - Get Related Articles

It is really great relief if you have many blog posts and don't need to take care of related articles for each of them in SilverStripe CMS.

Here is how to get relevant or similar articles / posts in SilverStripe automatically, based on meta keywords or tags. And not only that the logic returns related articles but it also returns them by relevance! For example, if you visit funny article about jobs I dream of, you can notice that the first result has in common more than one tags and all below have only one.

Note: The code is not tested in v3.x.

Transfer Elgg Site

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

SilverStripe and Google Custom Search Engine Integration

We had a request from a client to integrate Google Custom Search with SilverStripe CMS. The idea was interesting and we decided to write tutorial about it.

There are three main steps to be done:

SilverStripe - How to Logout Inactive Users

SilverStripe content management system is near version 3, the latest stable version that will be released in several months, and we continue to provide SilverStripe tips and tricks to you.

This article shows how to logout inactive user after some period of time.

SilverStripe - Most Popular Articles

We received a lot of questions how to show most popular articles and posts regarding our tutorial about implementing page view counter in SilverStripe.

Here is the solution that we also implemented on our blog system.

Let's say that we have blog article page represented with class BlogPostPage and implemented logic for page hit/view counter.