Add a Custom Attribute to the General Link Field in Sitecore
In my current project, I needed to find a way to give content authors the ability to add a custom attribute — let’s call this custom attribute Tag for simplicity– to the “Insert Link” and “Insert...
View ArticleYet Another Pipeline Processor to Handle ‘Page Not Found’ (404 Status Code)...
Last week I pair programmed with fellow Sitecore MVP Akshay Sura on a class that would serve as an <httpRequestBegin> pipeline processor to serve up ‘Page Not Found’ content along with a 404...
View ArticleDownload Images and Save to the Media Library Via a Custom Content Editor...
Yesterday evening — a Friday evening by the way (what, you don’t code on Friday evenings?😉 ) — I wanted to have a bit of fun by building some sort of customization in Sitecore but was struggling on...
View ArticleOmit Sitecore Bucket Folder Item Names from Page Item URLs
In my two previous posts — this post and this post — I used the Sitecore Rules Engine to determine how bucket folders in the Item Buckets feature should be constructed. I love having the freedom and...
View ArticlePrevent Duplicate Names of Bucketed Sitecore Items
In my previous post, I gave a solution that removes names of Bucket Folder Items from URLs in Sitecore, and also resolves those same URLs when they are called up in a browser. However, that solution...
View ArticlePrevent Unbucketable Sitecore Items from Being Moved to Bucket Folders
If you’ve been reading my posts lately, you have probably noticed I’ve been having a ton of fun with Sitecore Item Buckets. I absolutely love this feature in Sitecore. As a matter of, I love Item...
View ArticleWrite Sitecore Experience Forms Log Entries to a Custom SQL Server Database...
Not long after I wrote the code for my last post, I continued exploring ways of changing service classes in Sitecore Experience Forms. One thing that popped out when continuing on this quest was...
View ArticleService Locate or Create Objects Defined in a Fully Qualified Type Name Field...
<TL;DR> This is — without a doubt — the longest blog post I have ever written — and hopefully to ever write as it nearly destroyed me — so will distill the main points in this TL;DR synopsis....
View ArticleAlter the Appearance of the Sitecore Content Tree using a Pipeline-backed...
About 4 years ago, I blogged about creating a custom MasterDataView class to change the appearance of Items in the content tree. One thing that bugged me back then was how this particular piece of...
View ArticleYet Another Post on Sitecore Content Editor Warnings
Over the years, I’ve written posts on adding custom Content Editor Warnings. Content Editor Warnings give visual cues at the top of an Item in the Content Editor to either take action on something...
View ArticleRestart Your Sitecore Content Management (CM) and Content Delivery (CD)...
Last Friday, I had worked on a PowerShell script which is executed by clicking a custom button in the Sitecore Content Editor ribbon using the Content Editor Ribbon integration point offered through...
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