In Episerver 7+ developers have been provided with a handy new feature to provide different levels of feedback to content editors when they create new pages and blocks using the ValidationErrorSeverity enumeration. The ValidationErrorSeverity comes i...
The migration of content (also known as "lift and shift") is the process of copying content from an existing platform into the new website. One of the most overlooked phases on a project is the content migration stage. When companies switch CMS platf...
Back in the days before MVC, when the only option of using Episerver was with web forms, we used the 'EPiServer:Property' control to render our page type properties on a page, like so:
Now we have MVC Razor and also the new addition of blocks, EPi...
In this tutorial, you will learn about the importance of restricting what pages should be allowed to be created under each other/
Recently, one of the developers on the team had this error when he tried to do an import of content via a scheduled jo...
If your website loads slowly then you will experience higher bounce rates, you'll get fewer return visitors, customers will complain and you'll end up losing revenue and potentially damage your company's reputation beyond repair... so having a good o...
With the advent of faster processes, quicker internet connections and advances in technology, it's quite surprising that a study done by Radware found that in eCommerce sites at least, web performance has slowed on average 16% than previous year (New...
One thing you will need on your first Episerver website is a method to preview blocks within the editor. Previewing a page will work as expected, but, when you try to preview a block within a ContentArea, out-of-the-box you see a 'Preview is not avai...
In this tutorial how to display different preview renderings for your blocks when display options are enabled. For those of you new to previewing blocks, in general, you can learn more here.
In this advanced tutorial we'll cover a preview model ...
Building a website that loads quickly is a critical step nowadays in order to create a successful website. To ensure your Episerver site has a blisteringly fast load speed, it’s a good idea to run a few speed tests against it. There are many tools av...
In order to make content editors' lives a lot easier, it's a good idea to restrict the pages that they can create. This is done using the [AvailableContentType] attribute, on top of your page type definition, if you added the following code then con...
There are a few times in Episerver when you need to know a page types Id. In Episerver 6 you use the GetPageTypeID-method that return the Id. In Episerver 7 and upwards this has moved. To access the code now you can use the IContentTypeRepository. ...
I've previously blogged in EPiServer 7 Routing For Dummies which talked a bit about segments in Episerver. Today we're going to go one step further and create our own custom segment.
What is a segment?
In the switch over to .Net and MVC the way Url...
