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Inspecting Sitecore Packages Before You Install Them
So if you've worked with Sitecore for any length of time you've probably created your own data packages to move to a remote server or installed a module from Sitecore shared source. You may have...
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Rich Text Editor Profiles
This article was updated on 2014.5.16 to cover how to set the profile for Sitecore 7.While doing research for another article I came across an article on Stack Overflow asking about Rich Text Editor...
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Using Brightcove in Sitecore
update on 9.13.2011 - Sukiyoshi's open source license has changed to the MIT open source license.update on 3.8.2012 - Sukiyoshi has been updated to work on Sitecore 6.4 and up and has a specific...
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Cache Manager
So if you've ever setup caching on a Sitecore site you'd be familiar with the admin cache page. I recently had to set it up on a fairly large existing site and though there were a lot of other issues,...
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Sitecore Sublayout Parameters and Datasources
Some of the most useful features in Sitecore are also some of the least well known. The longer you work with anything, the more you begin to understand it. With something as complex as Sitecore you...
View ArticleMulti Site Rich Text Editor Stylesheet in Sitecore 6.4
So while doing a dry run of an upgrade from Sitecore 6.2 to Sitecore 6.4, I noticed something that stopped working in my rich text editor: dynamic stylesheets. I have a large multi-site platform and...
View ArticleUpdate to Sitecore Stager
If you're on a Sitecore environment pre-6.3 and you're using the Sitecore Stager you may have noticed that each publish will clear the entire HTML for a site. This may be fine for you but I like to...
View ArticlePartial Html Cache Clearing
*the code was updated 8/2/2011 with some insight from Mrunal Brahmbhatt. Much appreciated. So I recently upgraded my system to Sitecore 6.4 from Sitecore 6.2 and was pumped about a lot of the new...
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Fix Broken User Manager
I've long given up on using the User Manager paging buttons until yesterday when looking over the known issues, I found an article describing a solution to my problem on SDN. Knowing at least one other...
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Sitecore Data Importer
Many of the projects I've worked on over the past several years have required importing data either from SQL or from an existing Sitecore installation itself. The original application was a page form...
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Add Css Classes to Sitecore Rich Text Editor
There are lots of ways to add css classes to sites and I've covered how to setup stylesheets for multi-site installations, but if you're only building a single site on Sitecore and you're looking to...
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Transform Web Controls In Sitecore Rich Text Editor
This article is a follow-up to an article written previously by John West about embedding web controls in Rich Text Editors.I spent some good time using web controls in the Rich Text Editor to allow...
View ArticleUsing Short IDs
If you've ever worked with Sitecore for any length of time you've worked with an item ID. It's in the form: {7294ECFC-0C37-44AD-B728-ABA259B18889}. There are times when you need to pass the ID around...
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Setting Up a Sitecore Extranet
*(updated on 5/30/2014) For those interested, I have released an Extranet Module to manage creating and removing an extranet for your site. I've recently needed to setup an extranet for several...
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Adding a button to the Rich Text Editor in Sitecore 6.4
Since there were some significant changes in Sitecore's RTE when they upgraded to Telerik's new libraries from Sitecore 6.3 to 6.4. I'd written previously about adding buttons to the RTE before and was...
View ArticleDeprecated Sitecore Field Conversions
So while preparing my Sitecore system for a future upgrade to 6.5 I noticed that there were a lot of fields that were using deprecated field types. It's not a surprise since the original system was...
View ArticleSitecore Symposium Kickoff
I'm at Sitecore Symposium in sunny Las Vegas and I'm going to be writing a series of articles covering the developer track that I'm attending. I'll be trying to live blog where I can.So far I've met a...
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Sitecore Keynote
Immediate: Relevant: Predictive. That's where Sitecore is taking us this year. The demo of the well known Nikam fake product website was telling of how they're looking towards a more integrated...
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Developer Keynote
The developer keynote was kicked off with the venerable Lars Nielsen whose presence implies Sitecore has been able to maintain its brain trust through it's explosive growth over recent years.Getting...
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Sitecore Brightcove Connector
I'm extremely excited about the number of people who are in attendance for the Brightcove Sitecore connector. This was as you may or may not know a labor of love for me since it's built off of my open...
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