The Silverstripe CMS approach allegedly removes complexity for content authors, and offers more flexibility to developers.

[4] As with the rest of the platform, it is written in PHP (5.3), and takes advantage of its object-oriented design capabilities such as name-spacing.

[citation needed] Silverstripe CMS generates markup using a custom template-language based on W3C HTML5 that offers simple placeholders and conditional logic.

Some existing modules include: Blog, Advanced Workflow Management, eCommerce, Forum, and LDAP/OpenID authentication.

Modules, widgets, and themes are all available as free downloads under the BSD license, and the majority of them are community contributed.