Back-End Development

Helix is an architectural pattern outlined by Sitecore to help guide developers into organizing their solutions in a consistent and flexible manner.Each tenant website that we introduce to the CMS should be thought of as living within the Project layer.

Implement personalization of Sitecore components based on third-party integrations can be a challenge. This post will share one quick way to accomplish this AND help your content authors out.

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.

Custom Launchpad buttons and Experience Editor Ribbon Buttons save time for content authors and improve their experience especially when editing long and complex pages. Launchpad buttons allow them to focus only on those page types they are allowed to create or edit. Ribbon buttons and dialogues give them options to edit fields without going back to launchpad.

I have had the chance to review Sitecore 9 and I have to say, there are quite a few things to be excited about. This blog post will give you my take on a dozen changes you will want to take note of in Sitecore 9. A few of the more noteworthy changes deserve a deeper dive and will be covered in depth in future blog posts.

I thought it would be a good idea to finish this series with Part 3 – Testing Rule Execution – focusing on new rule types.

Five simple steps to creating a TreeList that supports dynamic datasources and still uses parameters like ExcludeTemplatesForSelection.

The other day a client asked me how they could exclude specific user-related pages (e.g. login, registration, and change password pages) from being indexed and showing up in search results. The No Index Field in the Content Editor is a great way to accomplish this without slowing down your indexing operations.

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.

The other day I had a requirement where I had to implement a new workflow on a Sitecore implementation. All of the existing templates needed to begin using this new workflow. As I’m a developer, every time I need to perform an action that is repetitive, I think about ways to automate it. In this case, since there were a few templates that needed to be updated, I thought about creating a simple Sitecore PowerShell script to update all of them.

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

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