Back-End Development

Adding Alt Text to your Images in Optimizely When developing a site using Optimizely, it is important to keep accessibility in mind. A common solution that I’ve found helpful is to extend the ImageData class from EpiServer.Core and add a property for Alt Text. This concept is demonstrated in the Alloy Project and has been […]

Our typical problem arises when we wish to incorporate an API into our mobile app. Consider the situation in which you need to create a mobile app for an existing system. The system was one monolithic solution that exposed an API that exclusively served the web client. The client’s proposal is not restricted to new mobile apps, […]

Have you started up a new Optimizely site, and prepared your database only get to this error message?   Reading the error message itself, you’ll see that the created DB version is at 957 where the current version of Optimizely, at the time of this writing, is 904. Where did this come from? How do […]

As the IT industry has increasingly started embracing containerization, it has become a cornerstone of modern software development. Sitecore is not an exception. Sitecore announced official support for containers from the version 10 initial release. Since then all of us have started using Docker Desktop to run Sitecore’s containerized solution. If you are new to […]

In this blog, we will be discussing Schema.org, the role of schema.org in SEO, and how to implement Schema.org in Sitecore. What is Schema.org? Schema.org is a universal way to describe web pages with structured data. Search engines use this information to enrich the user experience on their search results and generate rich snippets. Structured […]

XM Cloud is a live evolving platform – the development team releases new base images almost on a weekly basis, and new features are coming to the product regularly, which gets reflected in the underlying dependencies, as well as public starter kit templates such as XM Cloud Foundation Head Starter Kit. At the same time […]

Dependency injection (DI) is a technique for achieving loose coupling between objects and their dependencies. Rather than creating classes of classes or using static references to perform their actions, most classes declare their depending on a constructor. Sitecore uses Construction injection and Sitecore implementation is based on Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection. Sitecore dependency injection implements the three lifetimes […]

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Discovering Sitecore PowerShell Reports Sitecore PowerShell is a popular and powerful module that can be used as a development accelerator.  It allows Developers, Content Authors, and Marketers to automate various tasks like content creation, audits, correction, etc. Apart from infinite possible usage with custom scripts, SPE already has provided a lot of ammunition in existing […]

Introduction The Content Recommendations add-on for Optimizely CMS dynamically recommends content from your site tailored to the interests of each user. Installing the NuGet Package will give you access to Optimizely’s Content Recommendations Block which uses Mustache Templating to render the data from the Content Recommendations API on a page. Although Mustache Templates provide a […]

I have been working at Perficient for almost 8 years.  I have always enjoyed writing blogs and sharing my knowledge with others.  This is my 100th blog post!  WOW!  I can’t believe I finally made it!  Come with me while I take a look back at 8 years worth of content. Series I write a […]

Sitecore has form elements OOB that meet practically all form requirements. But in some scenarios, we may need to create a custom element to fulfill the requirement like the Cascading Dropdown List. We had a scenario where we needed to load all Products of selected Categories in dropdown lists. We intended to utilize the Sitecore […]