Thank you to everyone who turned out for the January 2016 London Sitecore user group. Also thanks goes out to Sitecore UK for organising and hosting the event, it was an excellent way to kick off 2016! A quick recap… Continue Reading
A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away…. Wait that’s not right. A long long time ago in a blog post far away… Yes that’s better :). In truth this update has been a long time coming.… Continue Reading
Recently I had a requirement to search for content (e.g events) within the given area of a map. One of the great features in Solr is it’s array of functions that can be run against documents. Specifically there are a… Continue Reading
Item buckets are a wonderful feature in Sitecore. Since their (official) introduction they’ve opened up a lot of possibilities and allowed for much larger data storage inside Sitecore. Alas, for all their glory, item buckets do come with some annoyances/weird… Continue Reading
17/02/2015 – Update Sitecore 8.0 rev. 150121 (Update 1) comes with a fixed FXM Solr config and it is no longer required to replace it. ID’s of the indexes in the FXM Solr config in Update 1 have changed to… Continue Reading
The current project I’m working on is using Sitecore 8 with MVC. I recently ran into an error when I added a rendering into a placeholder, on another rendering, via the Experience editor. Now this post isn’t a slap on the… Continue Reading
A nice little, and perhaps less known, feature is the ability to style items for the content editor tree. This is a helpful way to differentiate items and potentially what their role or function is. For example, in the image below, I’ve… Continue Reading
A neat little trick in Sitecore for when you’re doing a multi-site instance of Sitecore is to use the property inheritance in the configuration. Instead of doing something like the following; Use the inheritance property to select a base site… Continue Reading
This gets me every time I’m installing Sitecore onto a clean Windows machine. If you ever find that after installing Sitecore you seem to be missing styling and images then you probably haven’t enabled the “Static Content” feature in the… Continue Reading
Recently I presented at the Sitecore Virtual Summit and on the same day at the Sitecore London User Group. The presentation focused on the new search features that are within Fortis version 3.5. You can watch the recorded video on the virtual… Continue Reading