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Sitecore Personalization with Snippets – Part 1, Embedded Personalization

What is a Snippet? Snippets provide some much needed functionality within the Sitecore CMS. If you’re not familiar with Snippets, they allow content editors to design and create “reusable page fragments” (or in atomic design terminology organisms) that can be used and reused within pages of your Sitecore site.

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Hello World – SCORE 3.0(TM) is here!

BrainJocks has just released the latest and greatest version of our Sitecore accelerator – BrainJocks SCORE(TM) 3.0.

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We built a website in a day – Pt. 2: Assembly Process

Queue Thursday morning and it’s time to get started. We know we’re building the foundations of a new website, and we want to start it off correctly. To do this, we’re going to follow what we call the ‘Assembly Process’. Assembly Process If you’ve worked with Cesia or myself in the past, you’ve probably seen […]

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We built a website in a day – Pt. 1

We recently built a website that meets the minimum viable product for a customer in under 24 working hours. An Enterprise Accelerator is the key, the secret sauce.  This particular accelerator is built upon SCORE, but these principles can be applied to any CMS accelerator platform.

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Using Sitecore PowerShell to generate a report on last updates to your content

Recently I had to build a report in Sitecore to show the latest updates done on the content tree of a Sitecore instance and had to determine which users made those changes. One of the other important things on this report was the ability to have content authors generate the report from the Content Editor. If you ever need to perform such actions, the Sitecore Powershell Extensions (SPE) module is probably your best bet.

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How To Find Items That Don’t Have Any Language Versions Using Powershell

Traditional Powershell commands require a -Language param to retrieve specific item versions. Locating items with out a specified language is a challenge. Here is a great work around.

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Uh-oh, the Sitecore Sheer UI dialog is jacking up my Rich Text Editor. Now what?

Use these 4 simple steps and you will no longer lose your content or field values in the Rich Text Editor when using a Sheer UI dialog.

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Creating an Experience Editor Ribbon button for SCORE pages

Recently on a few of my projects, we’ve been discussing how to further enhance the content authoring experience for users.

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Experience Editor error strikes again!

“After parsing a value an unexpected character was encountered: {. Path ‘scLayout’…

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Site Clusters – Part 4: Renderings shmenderings; or why you should care about Shared and Final layout

A critical portion of understanding Site Clusters is wrapping your head around Shared and Final layout, and understanding their impact on your assembly.

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Optimize your images in Sitecore with PowerShell Extensions + Kraken or TinyPNG

The solution I want to show you today involves optimizing images in Sitecore with PowerShell and TinyPNG. It allows for tremendous file size reduction with minor or nonexistent degradation in visual clarity at high resolutions.

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Bulk Manipulating the Language of Content

If you want to bulk manipulate by moving content from one language to another, SCORE comes with a language manipulation feature that can help. On the flip side, if you want to remove languages from your system, you can use PowerShell to automate this. Imagine that our site is currently in English with an en […]

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