If you are new to Sitecore development, then I would strongly recommend looking at Sitecore Rocks to help you speed up your development. Sitecore Rocks is a visual studio plugin that lets you do a number of useful time-saving things with your Sitecor...
When building a website you will inevitably need to store configuration data somewhere. In today's post, I'm going to cover the options available to you when you use Sitecore.
Web.Config
As Sitecore is a .NET application you can always use the app ...
I recently inherited a Sitecore project that used Synthesis to do the ORM. If you want to read more about Synthesis you can read more about it here, How To Map Sitecore Objects into C# Objects using Synthesis.
In my Sitecore template, I needed to g...
It today's guide, I'm going to cover the options available to you when you decide, for whatever reason, that you want to be rid of a particular Sitecore package.
Sitecore packages are extremely useful for quickly adding bespoke Sitecore functionalit...
As developers, I would guess we spend a good chunk of our working week trying to debug and fix issues. Sitting in front of a computer tippy-tapping away, without knowing why something is broken can make you want to scream, or throw your computer out ...
One annoying feature when developing any CMS platform is having to constantly log into the CMS editor multiple times throughout the day. In today's tutorial, I'm going to cover a technique that should extend the timeout value in Sitecore.
The logic ...
Making the content editors' lives as easy as possible should be a key priority on any project. Previously, when I have worked with large organizations, it is very difficult content publishing wise, to know who has published what. In general, I have a...
One cool feature of Sitecore is the ability to customize it to suit your needs. One often overlooked feature in Sitecore is creating custom gutters. Now, a gutter isn't something you wake up in after a 10-day binge drinking session with your friends,...
When a lot of newcomers start with Sitecore, one concept that people can struggle with is the difference between the Core, Master and Web databases. In most CMS systems you have a single database instance that stores everything related to your site. ...
During a project, needing the current pages Url, or, linking to another page is a very common task. Sitecore provides several ways for developers to interact with the API in order to get different segments. In today's tutorial, I'm going to cover the...
This tutorial will hopefully be quite short. One of the things I didn't find intuitive whenI started doing content editing was how to add controls on to Sitecore pages. I wasted more time than I want to admit staring at a blank page and wondering why...
Understanding Sitecore templates will probably be your first challenge. In every other CMS system, a template is something that is usually associated with an object that defines how something will look, normally a page that can be created within the ...
