Sitecore Front-End Development Best Practices
This article is intended to be a general guide on front-end development best practices for Sitecore solutions. There are a number of practices I’ve learned over the years that apply either because if...
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Custom Sitecore Clones Listing Ribbon Button
This blog post is about a recent customization I made to the Sitecore content editor to easily show a listing of clones of an item. Part of what inspired me to build this is recent research I’ve been...
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Sitecore Packager Error: Root Element is Missing
I was recently installing and configuring an existing Sitecore 6.2 solution to do some development. When it came time to package up new templates, media, and content items, Sitecore threw an annoying...
View ArticleSitecore Search by Site with the Advanced Database Crawler
Many Sitecore developers these days use the Advanced Database Crawler (ADC) as their interface into the Lucene.NET world. The ADC is a great tool because it builds on top of the Sitecore.Search...
View ArticleSitecore Avanced Database Crawler Occasionally Provides Null Results
If you’ve ever used the Advanced Database Crawler as your toolkit to do some sophisticated searching and querying for Sitecore content, you may have noticed that sometimes your results may include...
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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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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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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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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...
View ArticleSitecore 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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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...
View ArticleSitecore 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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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 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...
View ArticleSitecore 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...
View ArticleSitecore 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...
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