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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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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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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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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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Configure 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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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...

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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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Handle 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 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...

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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 Cross-Language Contextual Search

Sitecore 7’s new Content Search API provides a great way to leverage an underlying search provider like Lucene or Solr to search content items with the ability to leverage native filters such as the...

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Sitecore Environment Identification Tip

Today you get a simple quick tip for managing multiple Sitecore instances. If your infrastructure has a lot of servers and is scaled in such a way that you manage content on multiple authoring...

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Sitecore Rich Text Editor CSS Class Tips

The Sitecore Rich Text Editor comes with many customization opportunities, however the most common change made to the RTE is the addition of CSS classes in the dropdown and making the text styles in...

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Sitecore Items Will Not Publish

There are various scenarios when a Sitecore content author may be warned that an item will not publish. Read on to learn why: Not in the final workflow step If you publish now, the selected version...

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Configure Sitecore Web Forms for Marketers with a Standard Connection String

For anyone that has or is going to install Sitecore’s Web Forms for Marketers module, the module comes with it’s own patch config file as you can expect. Depending on the version of Sitecore you are...

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Sitecore Context Site Resolution

Sitecore’s API contains an easy way to get the context site in your code, however it has some pitfalls in the case of a multi-site solution with page editor and preview modes. Here is a simple solution...

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Unpublish Sitecore Content

Recently many (many…) people have asked me how to unpublish content in Sitecore. It’s really easy in fact. Go to the Publish ribbon and select the Change button: In the dialog, make the item as a whole...

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Dealing with Sitecore Template is Used by at Least One Item Warning

If you’ve ever worked on creating data templates in the Sitecore CMS only to later abandon them with a better replacement, you may come across an issue of existing items based on that template. Read on...

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Sitecore Managed Sites as Virtual Folders

Sitecore’s native ability to manage multiple web properties is a highly-leveraged feature of the CMS. It supports this via different tree nodes and specific configuration to delineate among sites. This...

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Sitecore Item and Field Names

Sitecore’s constructs of item names and display names is useful for managing content and delivering content to end users in user-friendly ways. They can also be used to change the perceived names of...

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