Perficient embodies a work culture that strives to empower people through our People Promise. We challenge, champion, and celebrate every colleague which creates a collaborative, diverse, and welcoming work environment. Stephen Tynes, a portfolio specialist in our Sitecore business unit, has built meaningful connections with his fellow colleagues and clients throughout his career at Perficient. […]
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Sitecore on Docker: Common Issues You May Encounter
Running Sitecore on Docker (fully supported) is relatively new (as of version 10.0+), and there is fantastic documentation available on the internet for getting started. The goal of this post is not to re-document installation steps, but to cover the less-documented issues you may encounter during installation (and after) with your Sitecore Docker containers. Personally, […]
SXA Sort search results by distance for mapped multiple locations
Challenge: We have seen how to sort the locations i.e., POI items by distance based on the current user location or the location given by the user. (Refer to the post – SXA Map component Part 3 for more detail.) In this post, we will explore how to sort non-POI items’ search results by distance. […]
Taking a Product Development Approach with Sitecore to Maximize Business Impact
As a consultant for over 20 years, I am very familiar with projects. Projects have a scope. They have a schedule. They have a budget. When it comes to Sitecore, it is very tempting to use projects to do everything: A project to stand up the platform. A project to build a site. A project […]
Scribing Scribans in SXA: Part 2
Salutations! So you seek to assemble the science of scribing scribans in SXA? Look no further, for here in this four-part guide I will detail the amazing power and control that scribans in SXA offer. The Four-Part Guide • Part 1 – What are scribans, cloning the promo, adding a scriban • Part 2 – […]
Sitecore Headless DevOps Best Practices – Part 3
Welcome back for the final post in my series on DevOps Best Practices related to Sitecore Headless implementations. In Part 3 we are going to look at the continuous deployment of our Sitecore and Next.js applications following a zero downtime model. If you haven’t checked out Part 1 and/or Part 2, I would recommend pausing […]
Megan Jensen Values Building Genuine Connections at Work
Megan Jensen, senior solutions architect in our award-winning Sitecore practice is passionate about our collaborative culture at Perficient. She’s involved in our Women in Tech ERG, Minneapolis business unit culture events, and the Sitecore community as a Sitecore Strategy MVP. Megan is committed to giving her time, energy, and expertise to her communities, and she […]
Query string-based custom SXA Search tokens for various search results scenarios
Challenge: Setting up a generic search result page with a Search box and Search Results components can be simple. Occasionally, we get the specific requirement for the search page which focuses on some particular fields and specific sets of search results. Let’s consider a page having a search results component showing results filtered based on […]
Sitecore Website Performance Guide Blog Series
Today consumers expect all their products and data to be delivered as quickly as possible. Instagram, Facebook and all other social media platforms know that they only have a few seconds to capture the user’s attention before they scroll on to the next post. Websites are all competing to keep the users engaged and even […]
Tiffany Laster Combines Strategy with Technical Knowledge
Perficient colleagues within our award-winning Sitecore team bring years of experience and vast knowledge to the practice and our clients. We’re proud to have been recently named a 2022 Sitecore Partner of the Year Award winner, which recognizes our team’s extensive Sitecore expertise, and their dedication and commitment to delivering innovative and impactful solutions to the […]
Image is everything: Managing assets with the Media Library and benefits of Content Hub DAM
If you’ve ever worked with Sitecore, you know that it comes with a Media Library for storing images for display on the website and other files for download. Images get stored in SQL database in their binary form which can take up a lot of storage space over time. Storing images in the database means […]
Delivering Sitecore Media Items as a Compressed ZIP
The task at hand At some point as a developer, you might need to combine multiple Sitecore Media Library items into a compressed ZIP and deliver it on the fly to the end-user. In my use case, I had a client that wanted to build out an asset library for the press to use when […]