In this article we'll take a look at a realtively simple way in which you can utilise Sitecore to look after managing the indexing of external data for you using Solr as the Search Provider.…
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This article is a quick look at a few ways in which you can enforce accessibility standards and best practice within Sitecore…
Sitecore SXA Themes Enable gulp sync with Creative Exchange Error - 403.0 - The request could not be completed because the service is disabled.…
It's as simple as this to stop drowning in config files and improve your build/release process while you're at it.…
Setting up a Production-ready Solr instance can be a bit of a pain. Here is a quick guide to get you up and running with a Solr instance ready for your Sitecore 9.x solution.…
I've used the Wildcard Page concept within Sitecore in a couple of solutions for clients in the past and have always enjoyed the clever piece of design that they are each time I've done so. I recently proposed using a Wildcard page solution in our Sitecore 8.2 Azure PaaS solution using Azure Search and decided to share some of my initial thoughts and learnings here. What is a Wildcard page?Essentially a Wildcard page is a special page within your solution which is often denoted by having the item name "*" or a specific page template. The idea being that…
During the move to Azure PaaS there have been a few instances where we've noticed a series of errors being logged about file I/O issues which often result in instances dying within a PaaS "load balancer". The error will look something like this: Sitecore on Azure PaaS File I/O errors "Too many changes at once in directory:D:\home\site\wwwroot\" Each time I've had to trawl through the Azure Kudo powershell file system view looking for where on earth some files are being written to so I thought I'd share a couple of (seemingly obvious upon reflection)…
As a 'back in the day' Sitecore developer I used to do more with Sitecore Queries than I'd care to admit. Recently I was looking for a 'good' way to set up a rendering with a default location which worked in a multi-site solution and was playing with Sitecore Queries once again. It occurred to me that the tooling that used to be available is no longer accessible through the Sitecore back end. I did a bit of digging and I located a whole host of useful tooling which I'd known about at some point in the past but which…