Hey Sitecore professionals, if you have not heard about Sifon for Sitecore – you must definitely check this out. I spent a lot of time building and testing it and can say Sifon is a definite Swiss army knife for local Sitecore development in the right arms, so you’d really like to learn why. Installing […]
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Celebrating Excellence: Five Women of Perficient Are Chosen as Proud Speakers at SUGCON in 2023
In the world of Sitecore, excellence knows no gender boundaries. Here at Perficient’s Sitecore & Optimizely Business Unit, five remarkable women have achieved a prestigious milestone that sets them apart — they were chosen to be speakers at the highly regarded SUGCON (Sitecore User Group Conference) in 2023. Being selected as a speaker at this […]
Navigating Content Workflow Excellence: Sitecore vs. Content Hub
In the dynamic realm of content management, workflow management emerges as the linchpin to ensure that the right content finds its way to the right audience at precisely the right moment. Workflow systems are indispensable for streamlining content creation, review, and publishing processes, ensuring efficiency and accuracy. In this blog post, we’ll delve into the […]
Keeping your own XM Cloud repository in sync with official XM Cloud starter kit template
XM Cloud is a live evolving platform – the development team releases new base images almost on a weekly basis, and new features are coming to the product regularly, which gets reflected in the underlying dependencies, as well as public starter kit templates such as XM Cloud Foundation Head Starter Kit. At the same time […]
Dependency Injection in Sitecore
Dependency injection (DI) is a technique for achieving loose coupling between objects and their dependencies. Rather than creating classes of classes or using static references to perform their actions, most classes declare their depending on a constructor. Sitecore uses Construction injection and Sitecore implementation is based on Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection. Sitecore dependency injection implements the three lifetimes […]
Excluding and Including Sitecore Assemblies in Helix Publishing Pipeline Solution
If you have a Sitecore Visual Studio solution inspired by Helix Example and tried source control the Sitecore assemblies or Hotfix assemblies and are unable to copy it to the deploy folder then this post explains how we can publish the same to the deploy folder and we will try to understand how it works. […]
Say Hello to Netlify, our Newest Partnership
We are happy to announce our new partnership with Netlify, one of the original high-performance WebOps platforms for the modern web. Netlify is a composable cloud platform with three key capabilities: Connect anything across various content and data sources A frontend cloud development and hosting platform for your decoupled architecture First-class content editing in a […]
Discovering Sitecore PowerShell Extension – Part 1
Discovering Sitecore PowerShell Reports Sitecore PowerShell is a popular and powerful module that can be used as a development accelerator. It allows Developers, Content Authors, and Marketers to automate various tasks like content creation, audits, correction, etc. Apart from infinite possible usage with custom scripts, SPE already has provided a lot of ammunition in existing […]
Switch SXA Themes Based on Cookie Value
The Requirement There was a requirement to give users the ability to switch the themes of the site. We can have multiple use cases to switch the theme of the site as mentioned below and provide a better user experience. We can show a pop-up on the home page with a message like “Do you […]
Perficient’s Sitecore Personalize Decision Model Workshop
In the Art of War, Sun Tzu claimed “Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” When it comes to personalization, all too often organizations employ tactics alone, despite a ton of effort being fed into strategic initiatives including customer journey mapping, persona development and user research. When it comes time to apply those strategic […]
Number 100
I have been working at Perficient for almost 8 years. I have always enjoyed writing blogs and sharing my knowledge with others. This is my 100th blog post! WOW! I can’t believe I finally made it! Come with me while I take a look back at 8 years worth of content. Series I write a […]
Making Sense of Sitecore’s Headless Options
If you read my last article, the big deal with headless, you know that the big deal is performance. The architecture you get leveraging a headless architecture with Next.js front end is fundamentally superior to MVC. When you are ready to make the move to headless, you may be surprised that there isn’t just one […]