Overview

Provides a quick baseline installation for a blog and some common supporting features.

Installation

To start a new website with a blog installed;

composer create-project silverstripe/recipe-blog website

Or to include a blog into your existing website:

composer require silverstripe/recipe-blog

Included functionality

This recipe includes silverstripe/blog and it's dependencies as one might expect, but also provides a set of optional functionality enabled by the presence of:

• silverstripe/widgets: Add widgets
• silverstripe/content-widget: Display HTML content in a widget
• silverstrpe/spamprotection: Add spam protection to Silverstripe forms
• silverstripe/akismet: Use Akismet to add a simple spam filter
• silverstripe/comments: Add commenting functionality for Pages and other DataObjects
• silverstripe/comment-notifications: Add simple email notification functionality for when new visitor comments are posted
• colymba/gridfield-bulk-editing-tools: Facilitate bulk file upload & record editing
• silverstripe/lumberjack: Easily manage pages in GridFields

And includes some configuration out of the box.