Site Definition Gotcha
Don’t you just love those problems that end up with you tearing your hair out! I ran into just such a problem this week with a client. Let me set the scene… The client in question has a fairly simple
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Octopus Deploy Step for Unicorn Sync
Two products that I love and have become an essential part of my Sitecore life are Unicorn and Octopus Deploy - I plan on writing about my adventures with setting up CI/CD using Octopus Deploy soon, b
Sitecore MVP 2016
Its been a long road, but I am proud to be awarded Sitecore MVP Technology for 2016. Its a huge honor and privelege to get this award and I’m looking forward to an exciting year with Sitecore! Thank y
Multi-Item Publish with Sitecore Powershell Extensions
A question came up on the Sitecore community today about being able to publish multiple items in one go. As a developer you can do this easily in Sitecore Rocks as you can multi-select items in the tr
Single Page Applications in Sitecore - Part I
At SUGCON #NOLA I was priveledged to be able to present on how we delivered a Single Page Application Sitecore implementation - I like to call is a SPAS :) A number of people have been asking for mor
Securing the Assets data folder
There was an interesting conversation on the Sitecore Slack Community about where the best place to store single-use data items for components. The consensus was that a folder that sits under the page
Searching the Media Framework Module
A number of our clients partner with video providers like Brightcove or Ooyala. To sync the content between Sitecore and the video provider, Sitecore have provided a module called the Media Framework.
Always Include Server Url without a HttpContext
Recently we had a requirement to update an external API with content information when new items were published. The external source needed general content like titles, images etc… But also needed a fu
Sitecore Render Field - Before and After Values Fixed
I have come across this issue many times in implementing Sitecore websites. You need a field to show on the page with some surrounding markup. The field is optional, and if the field has no content, t
Rendering Exception Handling - The Right Way
I see a few different ways of handling errors and error pages in Sitecore. I really like the way that we do it at Lightmaker, it makes things nice and simple and easy to debug! It also allows us as de