Sitecore Synonym Search with Lucene
Sitecore’s Content Search API comes configured with the standard analyzer by default, however its possible to configure a synonym analyzer if you need this functionality (i.e. searching for a synonym...
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Sitecore 8 Content Testing via Workflow
Sitecore 8 introduces the ability to manage changes to the presentation layer via workflow. This opens up a whole new world for managing personalization and multivariate testing scenarios via native...
View ArticleHandle URLs for Sitecore Folder Items
Richard Seal recently wrote a blog post about how to secure data source items and folders under content pages within the content tree. The TL;DR of his post is that any folders and data source items in...
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Sitecore Rendering Datasource Locations
There are a number of ways we can define the root location for data sources of our renderings. I’m going to use an example below of a multi-site solution within a large organization that make heavy use...
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Sitecore Patchable Ignore Lists
Sitecore hijacks requests as they comes through the application via the httpRequestBegin pipeline. In order to serve a resource outside of the Sitecore pipeline, you need to abandon the Sitecore...
View ArticleConfigure Sitecore’s Mongo Client to use SSL
Many production-facing Sitecore implementations have requirements to use SSL, and this should apply to the use of xDB as well. Since xDB is built on MongoDB, its important to be able to leverage...
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Troubleshooting Sitecore Indexing Issues
Not another one of these posts — troubleshooting indexing issues with Sitecore?! Well, I wanted to quickly provide some guidance on ways to troubleshoot indexing. Read on to learn a bit about indexing...
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Sitecore Predefined Rules for Geolocation Conditions
I was recently working with a project team to define an approach to personalize content based on the region of visitors. When you think “region of the visitor” you may be thinking about the Region...
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Rollback Sitecore Content
I have another blog post about how to unpublish Sitecore content, however there seem to be a number of questions about how to rollback to a prior version of content. The purpose of this blog post is to...
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Support Explicit User Types with Sitecore Personas
Sitecore has built-in ways to to track user types via the personas/profiles construct. This allows content to be scored against custom personas/profiles so users can be implicitly categorized based on...
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