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Installing SS on 1and1

I've recently re-installed some SilverStripe sites on 1and1 web hosting. It was Painful!
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Today a customer sent me some hundred images I should add to an image gallery. Unfortunately the files were renamed under windows: uppercase JPG extension and - really annoying -...
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In SilverStripe you can add Videos within the TinyMCE Editor by using the "Insert Media" Button.
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Tagged TinyMCE; Comments 2 ; Posted 02.06.2017 by Roman Schmid (bummzack) and Werner Krauss

In one of my latest projects we have a lot of frontend forms related to DataObjects. Instead of building the FieldList manually we use the form scaffolder, a great tool.
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When you have a $many_many relation, e.g. Page m:n RelationTag, it's easy to get all the Tags of one specific Page.
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Partial Caching is a great tool for speeding up your website - but if done too aggresively your javascript will not be included.
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You can easily translate CMS content with translatable or fluent, but what if you have an url that is just grabbed by a controller?
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On our Slack community channel today one question was, how to get all other pages with the same tags like the current page.
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Tagged many_many, ORM; Posted 14.12.2016 by Guy van Bael, Roman Schmid (Bummzack) and Werner Krauss

It's possible to link to telephone numbers which can easily be dialed on mobile devices. But piwik automatically just tracks links that use the http protocol.
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Unfortunately SilverStripe 3 doesn't work with PHP7 out of the box due to some naming conflicts with newly reserved words. Some community members already fixed the problem.
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