Posts Tagged ‘SXA’

Sitecore is able to support displaying your web pages in multiple languages. Providing multilingual support helps convince your customers you are providing them with a quality service or product by catering to their preferred languages. This is in fact the application of the behavioral theory called the Endowment Effect. Showing that you understand your customer’s […]

Improving the way your search result appears in Google and other search engines is paramount to driving users to your site. This blog post will show you how to display review scores in your search result using Sitecore’s SXA. How can this drive business for you? Why would you want to surface this information to […]

When Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) was launched, it was a real game-changer for the rapid implementation of Sitecore sites and for marketers wanting more freedom and control over creating content and campaign pages. SXA Themes also allow sites to share a standard site layout while making sure that the site has the right look and […]

Need some C# help inside your SXA rendering variant? You’ve come to the right place. This blog post will explain how you can employ the use of a C# helper class in your rendering variant. You should only use this sparingly. If you find yourself overusing C# here, you should consider implementing your component as […]

Continuing Sitecore development on an already live site can bring about new challenges that did not exist prior to go-live. For example, if a particular component is already being used by content authors, you do not want to introduce changes to said component that would break pre-existing uses of it on various pages. The Problem […]

With the release of Sitecore SXA 9.3.0, it came with Scriban Templates. They are used in Rendering Variants and can provide many benefits to the Content Authors as well as Developers. With additions like Scriban, Content Authors will have more power over the presentation of Content in Sitecore. There are already many embedded functions provided […]

Site themes for a Sitecore SXA site determine the look, feel and interactivity of the user interface. Base themes, included by default in the Media Library, are intended to be leveraged as dependencies for one or more site themes. Base Themes are built on top of a set of core, third-party CSS and JavaScript libraries […]

In HTML, the class attribute specifies one or more class names for an HTML element. This attribute can be used on any HTML element. Class names can be used by CSS and JavaScript to perform specific tasks related to that element. So, basically, class plays a crucial role in web development. What comes to your […]

One of the main features in Sitecore SXA 9.3 is the introduction of Scriban Templates. This will replace the legacy NVelocity Template engine that was being used previously with SXA. Scriban is very efficient when it comes to performance and flexibility.     We can define HTML structure using Scriban with usage of extra properties. […]

We have learned the basics of SXA’s Rendering Variants feature, and have seen how useful the feature is in terms of changing the appearance of our Components. This is very helpful when we want to use the same rendering to display different fields and many other properties like CSS Classes, HTML wrapper element, Data attributes, […]

As we covered in the first post on the basics of Rendering Variants in SXA, Rendering Variants are configurable adaptations of default renderings. With Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA), we can display many variations of a Component using Rendering Variants. In this blog post, we will look at the scenario where we want to wrap a […]

Rendering Variants is one of the best features in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA). The feature allows users to change the structure and appearance of how a Component will be rendered without needing any code changes. In this three-part series, we will look at a few different concepts of Rendering Variants. In this first post, we […]