Ever struggle with issues while working in the Sitecore Platform and don’t know where to start? Who hasn’t!… but you will be surprised to learn that most issues are not Sitecore itself. In fact, during my tenure I have found that 60-80% of the issues in a Sitecore environment are code, content, or config based …
If you are using Sitecore XM and your regular users don’t have access to the Personalize button when they open the Device Editor, it may be due to a permissions issue. In Sitecore XP, there is a role named “Analytics Personalization” to grant the Personalize right. In Sitecore XM (as of 10.2), it does not …
Sitecore XM Cloud, with its supporting composable ecosystem, has some compelling offerings. When leaving the worries of hosting VMs or managing PaaS behind in order to embrace flexible and scalable headless deployments, there are a few options for how to prepare for XM Cloud… bearing in mind that a careful evaluation to determine if XM …
Don’t be the organization that neglects to create and execute on a roadmap and ends up in massive technical debt. These following steps apply to non-Sitecore projects as well as Sitecore and are intended as a starting point to get your organization communicating and executing in a manner that allows for efficiency, collaboration, and staying …
Having a custom 404 page is a better experience for your users… but in a multisite setup, you may want a custom 404 that is different per site… better yet, a content managed 404! In Sitecore 10, you can use a simple add to your Site Definitions as follows (assuming you have a page named …
Upon adding additional publishing targets to an environment, the Sitecore CMS had no issues publishing items… except for Media items. In fact, it was throwing the following error since Media items are stored via Blob Storage which is different than normal Sitecore items due to the nature of media files: In double checking that the …
While setting up a new deployment slot in an Sitecore 10.2 Azure App Service Plan, I ran across the following error: I ran straight to the CMS, but was able to perform a full publish to the deployment slots database, and even verified via the Content Editor opened in Sitecore Desktop for the database in …
If you use the Sitecore Publishing Service and want multiple publishing targets (beyond the default Internet target), its critical to ensure that the configuration in the publishing service is set for your target. After you create the desired publishing target in your CMS (using: Create a publishing target | Sitecore Documentation) head over to the …
In the wake of MyGet going down this week, leaving Sitecore and the community in a mad scramble to move packages to NuGet or find another solution, some may be questioning what can be done to prevent this in the future. Specifically, should you host your own Sitecore feeds? What Happened? Sitecore hosted many packages …
I ran across an interesting issue in that I have 3 Sitecore environments that have the same configs required for non-interactive login with the Sitecore CLI. 2 of the 3 work without issue, but the 3rd was not creating the Sitecore CLI user despite having the same configuration files per: https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/102/developer-tools/configure-a-non-interactive-client-login.html. I checked that requiresUniqueEmail is false in the web.config, and all files are …