Success or failure with your Sitecore site largely depends not so much on the underlying Sitecore platform but if you can successfully extend it to meet your business requirements in a performant and bug free manner. This is where design patterns play a critical role in ensuring strong performance, quality, and a sustainable code base. …
Bulk review and updating of Sitecore field values within items are a common need, and one that Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) is uniquely qualified to handle. In this article, we will walk through two sample scripts to get or update field values… with a little extra sauce to help you get started (noting that the …
It’s the middle of the night and something has been published that should not have been, but you don’t know who logged into Sitecore during this time… or do you? Fortunately, out of the box, you can audit who logged into Sitecore with some minor caveats. To be clear, we are not assuming that a …
For those running SolrCloud in a windows server environment, it’s a common requirement to add custom Solr indexes to support your Sitecore environment. Whether you have blogs, products, or any other set of custom data you want to support Solr side, the following details how to setup custom Solr indexes within your Sitecore environment. In …
Look, let’s be real: AI is everywhere, and it’s moving faster than a caffeinated intern on deadline day. One minute, your marketing team is churning out blog posts like it’s no big deal; the next, your devs are debugging with tools that sound like sci-fi sidekicks. It’s exciting, sure—but it’s also downright terrifying. What if …
Following Sitecore’s guidance to not use Sitecore’s Redis instance for custom objects, rather leave that to session management, you may still require Redis for storing custom objects via serialization/deserialization to and from Redis. This could be for custom eCommerce solutions where complex data needs to be carried across pages or any other custom object storage …
Sitecore Workflows offer strong governance of content via a set of stages every piece of content needs to go through prior to publishing. While you can create complex workflows and add custom actions, sometimes a simple content approval workflow will meet most of your governance needs. In this article we will review what a Sitecore …
Full site publishing can be an expensive operation that not only locks out other users from publishing until its completed… but may publish items that are not ready for publish (please use Sitecore Workflows so content is always approved and marked as ready for publish to avoid the second case). With that said, here are …
When attempting a Sitecore Serialization publish after side kicking media items from another environment, I kept receiving the following CLI error: In reviewing the Sitecore logs, I also found the following error multiple times: What is Causing This The aforementioned log error is caused by a Sitecore issue resolved in 10.2.2 where the fix for …
Occasionally, you may run into a bad instance with hung processes or connections in a Sitecore Azure PaaS Environment. When this occurs, there are few options for managing these instances… in order from least impactful to most impactful on your Application Service. Health Check Azure App Services have a Health Check feature, within the Monitoring …