Great%20URLs
URL troubles Nobody wants to see %20, or other strange encodings in their URLs. Some say they are not good for SEO. Some say your users will hate you for it. All I know is that they look ugly. And you...
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Hide your caching settings
If you use rendering parameters in you components, you will create a Rendering Parameters Template to allow authors to edit and discover those parameters more easily. Authors can then use the Edit...
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30 tweets later we have reached the end of this little series. I confess it has been a bit harder than I anticipated. I had a list of 30 tweets prepared before I started. However only 60% of them...
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Multiple Standard Values
There are some situations where we would like to have multiple Standard Values for the same template. This is not possible with Sitecore. Or is it? The other day, whilst pondering about branches, I...
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Not so fast
So you think Sitecore fast query is faster than 'normal' Sitecore query? Not so fast. Let me act as a myth buster here. A Sitecore query is evaluated against Sitecore items, and allow you to query...
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Restricted access
Let's imagine, you need to have a portion of your site secured so that only certain users can access it. With Sitecore this is really easy to accomplish. All you need to do is: Deny read access to the...
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Upgrade to Sitecore 8.2
It is already more than a week since Sitecore 8.2 was silently deployed to the Sitecore Developer Portal. It comes loaded with exciting new features like Dependency Injection (check Kam's excellent...
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Preset Searches in the Sitecore UI
You may have noticed that whenever you create a bucket, a new Insert Option Saved Search is added to your item. Its purpose is to create items that allow editors to run preset searches. As an example,...
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Sitecore fixes and improvements
Sitecore keeps getting better - Sitecore 9 has brought us quite a few new things like SIF, xConnect, integrated Forms or configuration layers. There has also been a lot of attention to bug fixing,...
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Speed! - Sitecore Rocks - part 1
As those who know me will testify, I am a bit of a speed freak. I like running fast, driving fast, reading fast and of course developing quickly too! In the following blog series I am going to show my...
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Speed! - Sitecore Rocks - part 2
Sitecore Rocks has a few options that help you speed up some of the common developer workflows, like creating templates or items. Creating templates The screen for creating templates allows you to also...
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Speed! - Visual Studio tips
A few tips to improve your Visual Studio experience. Avoid app pool recycling During development you will spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for Sitecore to boot after an application recycling....
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Speed! - Bonus - Docker in development
I want to deploy my code in a consistent, repetitive and automated manner. I want to be able to deploy it easily on a blank copy of Sitecore, and blow the whole thing away. I also want to minimize the...
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Sitecore Item Renderers
One of the challenges with Sitecore is that it is so flexible that you can break it, bend it and modify it beyond recognition. This can have deep effects in how users interact with the system and how...
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Starting with Windows 10 Falls Creators Update (aka. 1709) Windows has native SSH capabilities. There is no longer need to use a client like PuTTY or Linux OpenSSH running on Cygwin. There is also an...
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