Posts Tagged ‘CMS’

One of the most widely used website development platforms in the world is the open source Drupal content management system (CMS). Drupal allows for easy creation and maintenance of any website, thanks to its numerous features, capabilities, and advantages. Drupal appeals to a wide range of stakeholders as it also makes it simple to distribute […]

In some situations, we need to set a maximum zoom scale or disable zoom completely on our website. This blog explains how to achieve that behavior in Optimizely Spire. In Optimizely, the meta viewport tag rendered on the page comes from the src\FrontEnd\modules\server-framework\src\PageRenderer.tsx file. However, since this file is part of the server framework, we […]

While upgrading from CMS v11 to v12, we ran into an error that read “Lazy loaded property value is not supported by the current property instance”. Unfortunately, the stack trace didn’t really say what the problem was. Here is that stack trace: System.InvalidOperationException: Lazy loaded property value is not supported by the current property instance […]

The package allows the import and export of repository contents. You can use packages to install new content, install new features, change event content, and restore saved content for development. A package is a zip file that saves data stored in a serialized file system (called vault serialization) and provides an easy-to-use and maintainable representation […]

I enjoy building websites using the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) content management system. I also enjoy using JavaScript frameworks like Vue, React, and Angular to create rich web applications. Occasionally I get to do both. AEM provides a SPA Editor to facilitate building components for single-page applications. The SPA Editor enables front-end developers to produce […]

DI or Dependency Injection is a complex topic, not just in Optimizely CMS, but in general in .net core implementations. Some aspects we get, like the different ways dependencies can be injected and which is better over others, while some leave us scratching our heads. Often times we end up doing a lot of troubleshooting, […]

Optimizely CMS comes with a package called Episerver.Forms that enables you to incorporate easy to build forms within a CMS website. There is a built in form container that supports standard built in form elements like input fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, select lists, buttons etc. And just like any other feature, Episerver Forms also come […]

If you’ve worked with Optimizely CMS, you might be pretty familiar with TinyMCE. Its the amazing rich text editor that works seamlessly with Optimizely CMS. And some of you may have worked with some or other form of customization with it in projects, be it adding additional styles, work with different plugins, format the toolbar […]

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’ve now written several blog posts about my experience with Optimizely CMS 12 upgrade process on several different projects. Each project has taught me something new and made me encounter things I hadn’t before. One of my earlier upgrade projects this year had very unique challenges that I wrote about here. This time around, I’m […]

In the Optimizely Content Management System (CMS), a headless approach is achieved using content delivery API. This handy package can get the data into JSON format using the REST API. In Single Page, Application, and content delivery, API works very well with JavaScript languages like React, Vue, and Angular. A headless system can work with […]

Succeeding with Your CMS Upgrade or Replatform Performing a CMS upgrade is like embarking on an adventurous journey. Rapid growth and technological advancements are essential, but without a clear digital strategy, businesses may drift aimlessly. Financial constraints and an aversion to risk can impede the adoption of cutting-edge technology and innovative marketing approaches. Organizational resistance […]