"How to" guides

Add a blogroll

How to add a blogroll widget to your blog.

Adding a calendar

Adding an events calendar to your site.

Adding an allowed extension for file upload

Customising the file extensions allowed to be uploaded by CMS users.

Configure Akismet anti-spam

Setting up Akismet spam protection for forms. -->

Atom feed (RSS)

Creating custom Atom feeds (RSS).

Disable or enable basic authentication pop-up

How to Disable or enable basic authentication pop-up on your environments.

Contributing translations

How to contribute translations to CWP recipe modules.

Creating a project/repository

How to create a new GitLab repository and grant access.

Custom embeds in the WYSIWYG editor

How to allow custom embeds in the TinyMCE HTML editor.

Custom meta tags

How to add extra meta tag information to pages.

Disabling the default publishing workflow

How to disable the default 'Two-step Workflow' when building your database.

Error logging

How to set up email error logging in CWP environments.

Exporting content

Using the RESTful API to access and export site data.

External HTTP requests with proxy

How to access external

How to access CWP tool ports if you have a firewall

Ensuring you have access to the correct ports to work with the CWP external tools and sites.

Inspecting the audit log

How to search through the audit log

Install sample project data

How to install sample project data

Last modified date on pages

How to display the last modified date on a website page.

Mail deliverability

What to add in your DNS SPF record to ensure mail deliverability when sending email from a CWP server.

Maintenance screen

How to add an "under maintenance" for deployments and server outages.

Migrating CWP Git repository to GitHub

Steps to ensure self managed GitHub repository works.

PHP Configuration

Details of the PHP version being used on CWP environments.

Active Disaster Recovery

How to Prepare your website to use Active DR infrastructure.

Implement a redirect

How to implement a redirect on your stack.

Sharing projects repositories

How to share a repository with other Gitlab users

Solr queries using date ranges

How do I use date ranges where dates might not be defined?

Solr highlighting search results

Supporting large numbers of files

Troubleshooting sites with large numbers of files

Using module forks

How to use an alternate module version (fork)

Using content migration tools

How to use the available content migration tools for SilverStripe CMS.