TIHIDI: SXA Theme Deployment
With the release of SXA 10 the tooling around creating an SXA theme took a leap forward and added new functionality that made the development and delivery of themes much better. No more fighting with
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Rendering Links with Scriban
Rendering a General Link in Sitecore MVC is pretty simple using the FieldRenderer: 123<div> @Html.Sitecore().Field("LinkField")</div> It uses the attributes of the Genera
Sitecore Docker: Making Those Urls Pretty
Containers, Containers, Containers! Getting Sitecore running on containers using Docker seems to be the current craze/buzzword. It’s really gaining traction, but unlike a lot of fads, frameworks and b
Custom Fonts Not Downloading in SXA Theme
A collegue of mine ran into a weird problem recently with getting a custom font to download properly in his SXA site theme. Once I looked at the theme items, I realized the problem right away, its a p
SXA Security Headers 1.1
I am pleased to announce the latest version of SXA Security Headers. This version contains the same functionality, but has been built and tested against the latest versions of Sitecore. Currently it s
Sitecore SXA: Using Placeholders with NVelocity Templates
Recently I came across a situation where I needed to use an NVelocity template in a Rendering Variant. We were creating a custom slider and using the awesome Slick Slider as it gives us a lot of nice
Sitecore SXA: Using HTTP Headers to Secure Your Site
I recently came across a nice post on Using HTTP Headers to Secure Your Site by Caleb Thompson. Now while the blog post was targeted at Ruby, the principles here apply to any website. Using Observator
Sitecore SXA: Custom PageList Datasources
Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) has so many cool features to help us as developers to create amazing Sitecore implemnentations. One component that I find myself using a lot, is the Page List. T
Sitecore 9 Installation - Could not load file or assembly 'ChilkatDotNet46'
A collegue of mine was onboarding to a Sitecore 9 Update 1 project this week and had this error: Could not load file or assembly ‘ChilkatDotNet46’ or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to l
Share Your Data Between Components
Recently there was this blog post about 9 Grievances that make Sitecore development a challenge, and while I agree at times, Sitecore development can be a challenge (although, isn’t that really why we