Optimizely’s Opticon 2023 begins next week on Tuesday, October 10 in sunny San Diego. The 3-day conference promises to explore what Optimizely calls “the intersection of art and science.” Attendees will have the opportunity to experience what happens when the two work in tandem to drive better digital experiences while empowering the people, like you, […]
Optimizely
Overriding Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block to Implement Custom Recommendations
Introduction The Content Recommendations add-on for Optimizely CMS dynamically recommends content from your site tailored to the interests of each user. Installing the NuGet Package will give you access to Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block which uses Mustache Templating to render the data from the Content Recommendations API on a page. Although Mustache Templates provide a […]
Upcoming Webinar: Mastering B2B Commerce as a Distributor
Are you ready to unlock the full potential of B2B commerce? Mark your calendar for September 7th as Perficient participates in Optimizely’s virtual B2B Commerce Summit 2023. Across 2022 and 2023, economic headwinds have affected the growth of B2B vendors. Specifically, vendors are struggling with the rising cost of inflation, supply chain disruptions, and labor […]
Local HTTPS for Optimizely, IIS, and Kestrel using certificates (Pt 2)
In part 1 of this two-part blog series on securing your local development with HTTPS and Self-Signed Certificates, I described how to create a local self-signed certificate. In this part, I’ll explain how to use that certificate to safeguard your development environment and make it even more similar to QA & Production. Bind the certificate […]
By Continuing to Challenge Herself, Ntasha Sharma Grows Her Career at Perficient
Meet Ntasha Sharma, Senior Business Consultant During her time at Perficient, Ntasha Sharma has grown her career and achieved many professional milestones. Perficient’s Growth for Everyone initiative encourages our 7,500 global colleagues to pursue their career goals and forge their own path. We believe it’s important to recognize and celebrate the unique accomplishments of our […]
Ultimate 5-Step Guide to Transitioning from Google Optimize
Ready for your Google Optimize sunset replacement? Strategies for Seamless Migration and Accelerated Experimentation Growth The upcoming Google Optimize sunset has made it crucial for businesses to find reliable replacements. In today’s data-driven environment, the functionality of data experimentation tools is paramount. Relying on A/B testing tools for measuring and enhancing website optimization is key […]
Local HTTPS for Optimizely, IIS, and Kestrel using certificates (Pt 1)
Wasn’t it around 2006 when HTTPS started becoming popular? You’d go to a secure page and almost always see a message saying, “This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the insecure items?” 1 “Helpful” people online posted how to disable the error. Then browsers got smarter and just stopped […]
Optimizely Blocks As Properties: How To Hide Irrelevant Fields
We recently ran into an issue when using shared blocks as properties on pages; some of the block’s properties don’t make any sense in this context and can lead to some confusion with editors. Instead of creating another version of the block to use specifically as a local block, I created a simple feature to […]
Optimizely CMS 12 upgrade takeaways!
I’ve now written several blog posts about my experience with Optimizely CMS 12 upgrade process on several different projects. Each project has taught me something new and made me encounter things I hadn’t before. One of my earlier upgrade projects this year had very unique challenges that I wrote about here. This time around, I’m […]
A Pediatric Experience Success Story: Opening a New Digital Front Door
While entering a new and highly competitive pediatric market, our client needed to offer an excellent digital experience. The health system partnered with Perficient to build a frictionless and guided experience that patients and families both need and expect. Providing a Truly Patient-centered Experience First, we identified site KPIs, developed target personas, built a digital […]
Optimizely CMS 12 – Content Delivery API Integration
In the Optimizely Content Management System (CMS), a headless approach is achieved using content delivery API. This handy package can get the data into JSON format using the REST API. In Single Page, Application, and content delivery, API works very well with JavaScript languages like React, Vue, and Angular. A headless system can work with […]
Optimizely Configured Commerce – Learn CMS Spire 5.X Part-3
Insite is now Configured Commerce. In this blog, we will learn below points: Replacing an existing page in Spire Example of replacing an existing page Implementation in Local machine Replacing an existing widget in Spire Example of replacing an existing widget Implementation in Local machine In this blog post, we will explore the process of […]