SilverStripe is a powerful content management system which runs on Sapphire framework (object oriented framework like Ruby on Rails or Django).

The framework lets you rapidly code up the "objects" your project uses (e.g. staff members, products, customers, along with their relationships). You then add a few lines of code and find SilverStripe has automatically added tables and columns to the database, let you use them in your website templates, and has added new "page types" and fields into the CMS for the content editor to utilise.

Free CMS Software

Some features:

  • Simple: Intuitive and user-friendly
  • Flexible coding framework
  • Scalable: From 1 page to a million
  • Standards Compliant: Fully XHTML compliant
  • Modular
  • Template Freedom: No restrictions on the look and feel of your site
  • Open source
  • Cross platform easy to install (PHP based)
  • Supported

One of the best things about SilverStripe CMS is the active community behind it. You can easily find support from users.

There are some very useful modules developed for this content management system including a blog module, forum module & an e-commerce module.