This is part three in a series on making an awesome search experience in Sitecore. The previous parts were on:Part 1 - The basics, getting demo dataPart 2 - Defining the index, and utilizing it in…

This is part two in a series on making an awesome search experience in Sitecore. In the first part, I showed the basics of getting some demo data, which can be used for the search application. I've…

I’ve been working a lot with the Sitecore Content Search API lately, currently working on using the API for a webshop, and making the experience of finding your products awesome. Unfortunately I can’t…

Sitecore comes with an awesome pipeline system, the system enables Sitecore to add all run and handle code for all sorts of stuff, the code that should be run in each pipeline, can be configured via…

This is one of our old tools that has been implemented for many of our larger customers.It is possible to get a list of all the current sessions in the Sitecore backend. You get a lot of info on the…

Last week I went to the Sitecore HQ in Copenhagen, to get some upgraded skills on the Sitecore DMS package. In my current position, I haven’t really tried working with the DMS part of the CMS. I’ve…

This post isn’t a Sitecore only post. I faced a problem today, when one of my colleagues told me that one of the latest sites we had launched contained multiple title tags in the head part of the…

This is just a quick follow-up on my previous blog post about creating a dynamic robots.txt handler.Having a robots.txt tells the search engines what content to index, but it’s not a guarantee that a…

January 28 2014, Sitecore revealed the 2014 MVP list, and guess what, i was re-elected to the title :-) This also means that I’ve been a MVP for one full year, and just thought that I would blog a…

This one will be a little short blog post, but this feature was very important in my latest project.The design for the site was done by a front ender, who was doing a lot of <p>tags around texts. Also…

The Danish Sitecore partner conference 2013 was held yesterday in Copenhagen at Kosmopol, Oxygen Software sent a team of three “wise men” to follow the sessions. It was split into a business track and…

Ok, so this time I won’t take any credit for the solution, this is all stuff I others has been doing, and also blogging about. The reason ill blog about it is that this is it really helped me on my…

Last week I upgraded a Sitecore 6.0.2 solution to a Sitecore 7.0. There’s quite a leap between the two, but all in all the upgrade was no problem at all. The biggest task in the upgrade was to rewrite…

These days I got a few customers who all needed to get a form module installed in their Sitecore installation. Therefore there might be a few blog post on the Official Sitecore forms module, Webforms…

We have installed the Web Forms for Marketers(WFM) module for quite some customers. The module is great for letting your customers and editors insert simple custom forms on their webpages. It comes…

This isn’t really related to Sitecore, but .NET and Windows Azure.Finally had the time to move my blog to Windows Azure. I’ve been looking a lot at the service for some time, and I must admit that I…

So this might not be the most official solution for using the rules engine, but it just fitted in to the solution I’m currently working on. I got some elements that should be evaluated at runtime,…

Best practice when displaying values of Sitecore fields in your markup is currently to use FieldRenderer. When using FieldRenderer, Sitecore renders the fields as they are intended, and adds all the…

... or any other ASP.NET based systemAt the company i work at, we used to sell our own custom made CMS-like system. This was a great success, and the product had many customers. Since we have moved…

This article is directed at the Sitecore Intranet Portal, version 3.3, who currently runs on Sitecore 6.3.1. This means that the same functionality would be able to implement on any Sitecore 6.3.1…

In my current project, we are having a lot of images, that aren’t apart of the media library, but who still has to be resized and served to the browser. The project was started outside of Sitecore,…

In the project I am currently working on, we have a challenge concerning language. The customer is located in Denmark, and its primary customer base is Danish. Meanwhile they are trying to make their…

In the last post, part 1, we looked at how to identify who did a publish simply by going into the log file and finding the AUDIT trail for the publish. This would give us information about who did a…

On one of our larger installations with multiple editors (400+), we have had a challenge where an editor did a full publish (100.000+ items), when all they had to do was a single item publish. One of…

So this is simple sitecore patching tip, but one of the most common used ones.Every time you install a fresh Sitecore solution, you would need to change the dataFolder setting in Sitecore, to match…

At Danish Developer Conference 2012, I saw one of the coolest demos this year. It was Mads Kristensen of Microsoft, showing the Microsoft.Web.Optimization nugetpackage in Visual Studio 2012 Beta (at…

Just a quick note on patching the linkmanager in Sitecore. We have had some problems when trying to do the normal patching of the linkManager element in web.config, so i contacted support, for a…

Ever noticed how Sitecore get many nice thumbnails of various file formats in the media library? And in the filebrowser?I just had a project, where I was to list files from a network share. The list…

We ran into som problems on a Sitecore Intranet Portal installation a few weeks ago, and i just thought i would blog a little about it, to help others that might be in the same situation later.The…

So this is a nifty little tip ive picked up when i had installed .NET 4.5. As many other developers i went on installing the beta of Visual Studio 2012, and .NET framework 4.5. This was working fine,…

So this is primary a little code sniplet that will enable you to da a publish on a item. The method will probably exist in each of your Sitecore projects, as its a fundamental method to use. In the…

The web.config that comes with Sitecore is quite impressive, its arround 3.000 lines of configuration. One thing is to be able to know what the different sections does, another thing is to keep track…

Reusing Sitecore API featuresWhile using Sitecore, its nice to know some of Sitecores own built in utility classes.Check out some of these classes before writing you own methods thats does the…

Sitecore Query can be a bit of a trick. its almost the same as xpath, but extends it with Sitecore specific elements.John West provided a nice Cheat Sheet for Sitecore Query and som documentation on…