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Intro 📖 While working on a recent project to migrate a Sitecore 9.1 solution to Sitecore XM Cloud, an interesting situation arose with Bootstrap grid parameters. More specifically, with grid rendering parameters configured on renderings migrated from the legacy 9.1 content tree into the XM Cloud content tree. To start, some (brief?) background on SXA […]

Optimizing Sitecore Search: Enhancing User Experience and Content Indexing Sitecore Search is a powerful tool that helps users quickly find relevant content by indexing various sources and presenting results in an intuitive, customizable way. To get the most out of it, businesses must optimize how search widgets function, manage crawlers to keep content fresh, and […]

Personalization has always been one of the most sought-after features for brands, allowing them to deliver tailored digital experiences. Sitecore’s CMS products XP and XM have built-in personalization capabilities, ensuring that the right content reaches the right contacts, for example, by showing, hiding, or adjusting content. In recent years, the shift towards headless solutions has […]

This series of blog posts will cover the main areas of activity for your marketing, product, and UX teams before, during, and after site migration to a new digital experience platform. Migrating your site to a different platform can be a daunting prospect, especially if the site is sizable in both page count and number […]

The digital experience landscape is evolving rapidly, and businesses face growing pressure to deliver personalized, scalable, and seamless customer experiences while minimizing complexity. Traditional on-prem and PaaS-based CMS solutions often come with heavy infrastructure demands, maintenance, and upgrade cycles. Sitecore XM Cloud addresses these areas with a fully cloud-native, SaaS-based approach, eliminating the need to […]

In one of the recent projects I worked on, there was a major challenge in integrating multiple digital systems effectively. The client had a complex technology stack comprising a CMS, an e-commerce platform, a search engine, and a personalization system, all of which needed to work together seamlessly. However, we ran into several roadblocks that […]

Sitecore Personalize uses goals to track the performance of experiences and experiments.  But what happens if your experience is live and you don’t see any executions or goals tracked in the performance tab for the experience?  It can be hard to debug, test and troubleshoot goal tracking especially if the experience is hidden behind a […]

While the world of digital experience platforms continues to evolve at a break-necking pace, and exponentially more so with the evolution of technologies like AI, there are still some steps digital marketing and development teams building digital customer experiences on the Sitecore platform can take to ensure long-term growth over the next five years and […]

The mark of a successful website is more than just a collection of pagee. It’s a structured ecosystem where every piece of content serves a purpose, or it should. When building a new site or migrating to a new platform, content mapping is a critical step that determines how information is organized, accessed, and optimized […]

Why Automate Sitecore Hotfix Deployment to Azure PaaS? Sitecore frequently releases hotfixes to address reported issues, including critical security vulnerabilities or urgent problems. Having a quick, automated process to apply these updates is crucial. By automating the deployment of Sitecore hotfixes with an Azure DevOps pipeline, you can ensure faster, more reliable updates while reducing […]

Looking back on the first-ever Women in Digital Breakfast at Sitecore Symposium, we had an inspiring and impactful gathering focused on empowerment, leadership, and allyship in the digital industry. The goal was to celebrate the achievements of women and provide a platform for them to share their thoughts and experiences from an industry that is […]

One of the biggest things I come across with new and existing clients is a slow website and it impacts engagement, search rankings, and overall business performance. Whether running Sitecore XP or leveraging XM Cloud, optimizing performance is critical to delivering seamless digital experiences. While many assume slow load times stem from back-end inefficiencies, the […]