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Sitecore Marketplace Module – MasterKey
MasterKey – Unlock Sitecore Items en masse So pretty exciting news! My first Module has just become available on the Sitecore Marketplace; https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/MasterKey.aspx It is...
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Quick Start Guide: Sitecore Personalisation Getting it working
Sitecore Personalisation – Getting it working I’ve been browsing around Sitecore forums and resources and there are often devs posting about Personalization not working working for their site or how to...
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Quick Start Guide: Dynamic Content via Sitecore Personalization
Sitecore Personalisation – Automatically changing content In the previous post I covered how to get personalization working correctly for your site. Now its time to start doing something exciting. With...
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Sitecore Webforms for Marketers – Custom Field Validator MIME Type Sniffer
Update: I have since released this as a Sitecore Marketplace Module for download. Improvements I have made and the full source code are available in this recent blog post MIME Type Custom Form...
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Quick Start Guide: Dynamic Renderings and Components using Sitecore...
Sitecore Personalization – Dynamic functionality In past Quick Start Guides I covered how to get Sitecore Personalization working and how to create dynamic content. This post will outline how to...
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Sitecore 8 Content Testing – Add Tests to Workflow
How to Add Content Testing to Sitecore Workflow To give the option to Content Test in workflow you need to create new Workflow Commands under a new or existing Workflow State, commonly the State before...
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Sitecore 8 Content Testing – Creating Multivariate and AB Tests
Sitecore 8 Content Testing Anything with the codename Skynet immediately gets my attention so I dug into Sitecore’s Content Testing. Essentially Content Testing can learn from AB and Multivariate tests...
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Sitecore Policies and how to Show or Hide Publish Options for Users
Control Users Publishing Options via Sitecore Security Policies As with most go-lives a showstopper ticket comes in just as you feel like you can finally go live. Fortunately the issue came in didn’t...
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Sitecore Content Search – Creating a Custom DefaultIndexConfiguration
If you are seeing the following Exception when accessing the Index Manager in Sitecore it is likely you have errors within your Index configuration files. Could not create instance of type:...
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Sitecore Marketplace Module – Secure File Upload for Webforms for Marketers
Secure File Upload – Restrict files uploaded via WFFM by Mime type and file size At the beginning of the year I posted a blog on a secure way to validate uploaded files that goes beyond checking the...
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Sitecore Marketplace Module – Follow Field Target
Follow Field Target – Click through to the Item referenced by a Sitecore Field Fed up the roundabout way of navigating to the Item referenced in one of Sitecore’s Link and List Field Types in the...
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How to extend Sitecore’s Experience Database
It’s about time we start doing with Experience Database. Out of the box, xDB is awesome for collecting general data such as name, address, contact details etc and that’s really useful. But how about we...
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How to Update Contacts in Sitecore xDB
This is a quick, short and sharp post covering how to add data to Contacts in xDB, specifically to the Facets and Elements that come with Sitecore out-of-the-box. This post is to provide additional...
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How to Identify and Merge Contacts in Sitecore xDB
In my previous post I explained how to extend Sitecore’s Experience Database so that you can store custom data against each Contact (visitor) of your site. I also recently posted about updating an xDB...
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Sitecore MVP 2016
A slightly different type of post today, the next entry in the series I am writing about extending xDB and Experience Profile is coming at the end of the week. Instead of the usual development guides,...
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Extending Sitecore’s Experience Profile – The Pipelines
Part 1 – ExperienceProfileContactViews Pipeline I’ve been writing this series on Sitecore xDB, Contacts and the Experience Profile for a while now. I’ve been covering how to identify Contacts for...
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Extending Sitecore Experience Profile – The SPEAK App
Part 2 – The Experience Profile App Sitecore’s Experience Profile shows a detailed breakdown of each Contact (visitor of the site) and is built using Sitecore’s SPEAK, so to modify the app it we are...
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Display the Context of a Sitecore Goal in the Experience Profile
For a while now I’ve been writing about collecting and displaying data unique to a client in Sitecore’s Experience Profile. What went hand in hand with that is the use of Sitecore Goals and Outcomes –...
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Gated Content Sitecore Module
Quite a few of the clients I have worked with lately have asked about implementing Gated Content. Not Gated Pages – preventing access to pages requiring an account and roles but gated areas on an...
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Sitecore Publishing Service – Setting up 8.2s new Publishing option
Sitecore 8.2 has been released and it brings a new option for publishing Sitecore Items – Sitecore Publishing Service. This is a feature that my brother Mike Robbins worked on and been so tight lipped...
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