The third post in Optimizing Sitecore Experience Editor Series talks about how to develop one component to create and render multiple Sitecore Items while having those items be editable from the XPE.
At the time of this writing, YouTube didn't have an embed code for adding responsive videos to your pages. Thankfully for content authors, there is a relatively easy way to accomplish this even if...
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...
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...
In this post we'll uncover a hidden gem within Sitecore to save you some time and grief. No longer will you worry about removing items in Sitecore accidentally and having to spend time with your...
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...
Follow these best practices and you will avoid many headaches, and improve productivity...
Part two in the Productivity Tips for Content Authors and Experience Marketers series.
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Part three in the Productivity Tips for Content Authors and Experience Marketers series.
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.
At the time of this writing, YouTube didn't have an embed code for adding responsive videos to your pages. Thankfully for content authors, there is a relatively easy way to accomplish this even if you're not an HTML or CSS expert. We describe the steps using Sitecore's Experience Platform and Sitecore's Rich Text field within Sitecore's Content.Editor.
In this post we'll uncover a hidden gem within Sitecore to save you some time and grief. No longer will you worry about removing items in Sitecore accidentally and having to spend time with your support department trying to figure out where your items have gone.
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 left unchecked, the Media Library can grow very large and very messy, very quickly and I mean VERY QUICKLY!
Follow these best practices and you will avoid many headaches, and improve productivity among your content authoring team.
Not too long ago, in the very recent past, a large dealership of a large North American auto manufacturer decided to take to e-mail marketing, which in my humble opinion was a colossal disaster.
In this series of posts, I’m going to share my experiences, along with anecdotes and maneuvers, to help you efficiently work in Sitecore. I’ll do my best to keep the articles version-neutral and when I am not able to, I will note the Sitecore version accordingly.
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”.
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we’re creating the first Sitecore-based Augmented Reality Treasure Hunt Game that Sitecore Symposium 2017 attendees can play to win an HTC Vive Virtual Reality Headset and other great prizes, and we’re looking for partners/participants.
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.