Sitecore

Perficient recently attended Sitecore Symposium 2018 in Orlando, Florida. The company’s annual gathering attracted over 3,000 developers, marketers, and others with a shared passion for Sitecore and marketing technology, including a large contingent from Perficient. As most of you know, Sitecore builds an enterprise content management system that powers thousands of websites around the world. […]

Earlier this year, I released my first Sitecore module “Placeholder Dropdown“.  It changes the placeholder name input text box into a dropdown when adding a new component to presentation details in the content editor.  It helps you remember if your placeholder name was ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column’. Version 2 is now available in the Sitecore […]

Sitecore Javascript Services has been a topic of massive interest at this year’s Sitecore Symposium. Every JSS session has been packed with attendees eager to learn more about JSS and how to use it. If you want to learn more about the basics of JSS, check out my recent post on how to get started […]

Sitecore performance is something I am passionate about. So “Measure, if you want to go faster” was a session I definitely didn’t want to miss at Sitecore Symposium. Here are my takeaways:  Use Tools Many developer tools have pretty great performance measuring tools built right in. The first tool Jeremy Davis, the session speaker, suggested for measuring performance […]

At Sitecore Symposium 2018, Linda Baker and Christina Deno from Wyanoke Group and Healio.com talked about how they used natural language processing, semantic tagging and machine learning to enhance the medical content that their company produces. Wyanoke Group provides education and communication services to the healthcare industry.  Healio.com is a clinical news, information and education […]

Sitecore just announced the general availability of Sitecore JavaScript services at Sitecore Symposium 2018. JSS 1.0 will be release with Sitecore 9.1 later this year. In my opinion, JSS is one of the largest fundamental shifts in how websites will be developed on the Sitecore Platform. JSS enables javascript developers, using the most popular javascript […]

What holds back marketers from creating one-to-one experiences?  Well, a lot of things, it turns out.  Lack of data, too much data, not understanding a customer’s journey, too much focus on journeys – the list is endless.  In the past, we’ve created rules engines to try to create personalized experiences, but we are finding that […]

Sitecore Symposium 2018 is off to an exciting start! Mark Frost, Sitecore CEO, kicked off the opening keynote by announcing their definitive acquisition of Stylelabs, an innovative content marketing vendor. Stylelab brings their digital asset management (DAM), marketing resource management (MRM), and product information management (PIM) applications to Sitecore’s already robust digital experience marketing platform. This […]

Today at the Sitecore Symposium Opening Session we were treated to several amazing customer stories and even some great information about Sitecore! First, let’s talk about the Symposium itself.  We are in Orlando, Florida hoping that Hurricane Michael bypasses the city where 3,000 attendees from 53 countries are attending over 100 sessions. The theme this […]

Sitecore recently announced its Sitecore Experience Awards 2018 category winners, and the competition was intense. There was an unprecedented number of submissions. From those submissions, the selected category winners represent an increasing focus on digital transformation, mobile optimization, and excellent customer service. We are proud to announce that we, alongside our client, Dignity Health, are regional […]

We recently ran into a mysterious issue when running a Unicorn sync in an Azure environment that turned out to be a classic “path is too long” issue in disguise. Here is what we saw in our logs: ERROR ERROR: Some directories could not be loaded. (9 inner failures) Tree failed to load: master:/sitecore/content/blah/blah (guidguid-guid-guid-guid-guidguidguid) […]

Solr search queries of your index are blazing fast. At least they should be, right? Have you ever run into a Solr search query that takes an abnormal amount of time? If so, then this blog post is for you. There are a few tricks you can employ to speed the query up. Even if […]