Sitecore Developers Den

Back to Basics part 3: Now that we know how to build a Helix solution, we need to make it ready for collaboration.

To implement a site with continuous scroll is an interesting challenge that can be solved in different ways. In this blog post I’m going to run you through a heuristic for implementing a continuous scrolling page in Sitecore

In this post, I’m going to continue the “Back to Basics” series with part 2: how to handle styling in your Helix solution.

Now that we've gone over basic React development and covered UI Frameworks that utilize React, we’re ready to import our Carousel into a Sitecore JSS project.

Now that you have a basic understanding of react and an environment set up to play with it, let’s import a UI component framework to create an already-made component.

In this series of blog posts I intend to walk you, the aspiring JSS developer, through the basics of developing JSS solutions with the React framework

During this year’s Symposium, I attended several sessions that explored possible applications for Machine Learning. These all have the potential to boost the experience that is offered to customers..

In this blog post, I share the highlights of two sessions I attended at Sitecore Symposium 2018 about Sitecore Cortex.

TechGuilds is now in Orlando for 2018’s Sitecore Symposium! We can’t wait to meet everybody here and show off what we’ve been working on.

In my last post, I walked through how to implement components in such a way that they could render multiple items that can be edited from the Experience Editor. In this post I’m going to explain how to use that functionality with a popular implementation of Dynamic Placeholders.

This is the second post in a series on How to Optimize Sitecore Experience Editor. While the XPE can be extended through programmatic means, it’s also important to know how to use it to its potential with Sitecore’s out-of-the-box functionality. 

Sitecore has many out-of-the-box features for supporting the experience editor, such as custom buttons and edit frames. However, there are also some clever ways that you can extend the experience editor.

It can be hard to explain what Helix is, to non-developers and developers alike. Illustrative of this fact is the ambiguity of the appropriate preposition; do you develop with Helix? In it? Is it something you buy and need a license for?

If you have worked with Sitecore EXM before and you were trying to configure a custom MTA, you have most likely seen the error message “The Sitecore App Center password is not set”.

For the past week, I was trying to figure out an issue related to the Experience Editor in Sitecore as it was rendering JSON as content.

I remember when I started to get myself into Sitecore development and I had to setup my environment for the first time, I needed to install MongoDB on my local machine so...

When architecting a website using Sitecore one potential issue that can arise is Sitecore’s inability to handle multiple placeholders with the same name. If you have a complicated page that uses a sublayout multiple times, and that sublayout has a placeholder, there’s no simple way to give that placeholder a unique name for each identical sublayout. Thankfully Sitecore Experienced! has created a powerful third-party package for Sitecore called “Integrated Dynamic Placeholders” which can help us.

Recently, we had to retrieve content from an external SQL database and use the content in a component, fair enough. Using Entity Framework, we can connect to the database and generate classes and models for the tables - this of course makes things a lot easier for us.

There are two ways to build a Sitecore package, it's either by using Sitecore Package Designer or by using Sitecore Rocks. Using Sitecore Rocks to create a package has many advantages including the ability to manage packages from Visual Studio or setting up dependencies in the package.

Our team here at TechGuilds managed to catch a bug related to WFFM (Web Forms For Marketers) Insert Form wizard.