Posts Tagged ‘SXA’

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 […]

Associated content is the datasource that we use for the components to use/display any kind of data that may come from items other than the current page item. This is one of the main features of Sitecore that provides data reusability and stores data in items other than a page item. We can either store […]

Senior Sitecore Product Manager Adam Najmanowicz and Senior Sitecore Tech Evangelist Mark van Aalst gave an update on three key improvements made to the upcoming release of SXA. In addition to full JSS integration and a demo of a new, out-of-the-box filtering search component, Adam described changes made to the platform around the front end […]

In Part 1 of this series, we extensively covered setting up a Helix-based project to support handling site metadata generation and caching. In Part 2, we are going to bring it to the finish line by adding templates, scaffolding actions, PowerShell scripts, and much more. Let’s get started! Prep Work Before we actually get to […]

If you’re using Sitecore 9.0+, chances are that you’ve heard of, or are currently utilizing, Sitecore Experience Accelerator to accessorize your instance. In my opinion, one of the better things to come out of SXA is the use of modules to add discrete amounts of functionality to a tenant or site by leveraging the scaffolding […]

Background In Part 1 of this series, we extensively covered setting up a Helix-based project to support handling site metadata generation and caching. In Part 2, we are going to bring it to the finish line by adding templates, scaffolding actions, PowerShell scripts, and much more. Let’s get started! Getting Started Before we actually get […]

Background If you’re using Sitecore 9.0+, chances are high that you’ve heard of or are currently utilizing Sitecore Experience Accelerator to accessorize your instance. In my opinion, one of the better things to come out of SXA is the use of modules to add discrete amounts of functionality to a tenant or site by leveraging […]