Recently I faced one challenge. A Sitecore page has a number of rendered fields and all of them can be marked as "editable" in Sitecore out of the box. For example, I have a list of items which are being outputted to the page from a rendering which requests Content Search API and gets list … Continue reading Experience editor. Add all editable items on page to related items publishing
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Sitecore Cache Key Profiling
Not sure what's the problem with your Sitecore rendering cache setup? Since Sitecore 8 version has been released I have been experiencing issues with caching. First is that one I described earlier, then I figured out that one of my renderings is being placed inside of another and it applies caching from the parent rendering … Continue reading Sitecore Cache Key Profiling
Inversion of Control and dependency management with Sitecore configuration factory
Today, when we talk about modern software application development, its quite obvious that using Inversion of Control (IoC) design principle is a must have. Having ability to change dependencies of the component without changing the component itself is very important for any kind of application I think. When you creating a Sitecore website you still … Continue reading Inversion of Control and dependency management with Sitecore configuration factory
Helpfulcore.RenderingExceptions styling updated!
Recently I wrote about handling the rendering exceptions in Sitecore in the post from Novemver 15th. Last week I have updated the styling for them: Now error messages should look the same way on any website you install the package The css classes became more unique now so won't conflict with any classes of your … Continue reading Helpfulcore.RenderingExceptions styling updated!
Wildcards Module for Sitecore 7+ using Content Search API
Will share the alternative implementation of Wildcards module of Adam Conn's original idea. The problem is that when it comes to Sitecore 7 or later this module appears not to be working out of the box due to changed Sitecore Rules Engine. And to be honest, working with rules may be a bit confusing and I … Continue reading Wildcards Module for Sitecore 7+ using Content Search API
Sitecore rendering exception handling
What if your rendering throws an exception? Default Sitecore installation will just use ASP.NET behavior and redirect you to the error page (yellowscreen or custom application error page whatever you have configured) Do you like that? Sitecore page is a set of separate renderings and why would I see the error page if one of … Continue reading Sitecore rendering exception handling
