A Beginner’s Guide to Elemental: Content Block Editing in Silverstripe

A presentation at Virtual StripeCon EU 2021 in September 2021 in by James Cocker

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A Beginner’s Guide to Elemental Content Block Editing in Silverstripe James Cocker Purple Spider Web Design purplespider.com

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What we’ll cover • What is Elemental? • Installing Elemental • Installing third-party content blocks • Creating custom content blocks • A few extra tips & tricks

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Prerequisites • Setting up with Silverstripe 4 • Composer • Working with DataObjects & templates • Silverstripe Lessons: silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/v4 • Starting with Silverstripe CMS, Herbert Cuba Garcia

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What is Elemental?

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😬 DEMO

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Links & Code Snippets purplespider.com/stripecon2021-elemental