startup-theme-components

This module extends the Startup theme with some commonly used modules, and some example models to get you started.

Included Modules

Silverstripe Elemental

The Elemental module is a popular and essential add-on to Silverstripe CMS. It replaces the standard Content field on a page with an ElementalArea field. This enables content authors to compose webpages from sets of Elements - also known as Blocks. Find the full developer documentation for Elemental here.

Startup Theme Components (STC) already has some basic Elemental setup. We have created a Blocks Page model found at src/PageTypes/BlocksPage.php, and this has the DNADesign\Elemental\Extensions\ElementalPageExtension applied (see _config.startup.yml to see extension configurations). Add a Blocks Page via the CMS and add blocks to the page. STC comes with pre-defined block types: Content Block and Image & Text Block. For information on creating custom block types, see the documentation.

Silverstripe Menu Manager

Menu Manager lets you define custom menus in the CMS, and use them in templates. STC ships with a Main Menu and a Footer Menu, edit these via the "Menus" link in the CMS admin. For more info on creating new menus, check the README.

Other customisations

There have been some other useful extensions added to core Silverstripe models, to demonstrate how their data can be customised.

• Site Config Extension - The Site Config has been extended to include a field for the footer copyright line, and a custom link button for the site header. Site Config extensions are very useful for providing global data, so you'll find one in almost every Silverstripe project.
• Page Extension - An Intro field and option to hide the sibling menu are added to the base Page type.
• Image Extension - Adds a field to customise the alt attribute for images.