Say you have a website which is live, and uses only a single language as of now. You have taken over support of the website, but have not built the website yourself. Your client comes up to you with the requirement of adding a new language to this website. What are the considerations you need… Read More Considerations while switching from single language to a multi-lingual Sitecore site
I recently needed to create a proxy API which needed to run off my Sitecore instance – and needed to support CORS – with this being hosted as a headless nextjs application. Here’s what we implemented: The controller was inherited from ApiController (System.Web.Http), and we added the following attributes (System.Web.Http.Cors) – on the action (you… Read More Enable CORS for API in Sitecore
We need to do this very often! Creating a cutom ribbon menu command in Sitecore to perform some custom action. This was the final result of my task, the following additional command option showed up only for items of a given template. This is to be created as a custom ribbon in Core db, I… Read More Create a custom ribbon menu command in Sitecore
Here’s a quick snippet to the list of media items in Sitecore over 500kb size. Sample output
This is one of the most common scripts I have seen being used as is requested by clients. The known caveat here being – this only brings back all media referenced using their IDs alone – in image fields or in rich text fields. Here’s the reference
While creating a release pipeline in Azure devops, we ran into a scenario where we wanted to warm up the site we were deploying to, post deployment. However, the app service of this particular website had IP filtering enabled on it, and onlu whitelisted IPs could access the site. The azure build agent IP is… Read More Whitelisting your Azure agent on the fly on your app service during the deployment process
We often need to add custom commands in Sitecore which a content author can trigger from the Sitecore ribbon menu. When used as is, the command runs synchronously and pretty much renders Sitecore useless for the duration of the run, without providing the content author with any indication about what is happening. A good way… Read More Adding user friendly messages & dialog for Sitecore commands
RAZL is a great tool which allows you to compare / sync your Sitecore instances. This is a paid tool licensed by Sitecore (Formerly by Hedgehog). The tool shows you differences between the 2 instances you configure and allows you to sync the differences to whichever instance you would like synced. Add a connection You… Read More Using RAZL with Sitecore
Here’s a snippet to add a particular rendering to all pages under a given path (provided the rendering is not already present on the item’s final layout.
Sitecore upgrades have always been a common project we come across. Depending on the source and target versions, the time & budget needed for an upgrade can vary vastly. Usually, a client would ask you to estimate how long an upgrade would take, and the process to determine that could sometimes take a good amount… Read More Going about a Sitecore upgrade assessment
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