Nov 13, 2022Sitecore Docker/Kubernetes best practicesHello, The way we host our Sitecore infrastructure is rapidly changing. I remember the days when we hosted Sitecore instances on virtual machines and connected to them through RDP. Then the Azure PaaS came, and we started to host Sitecore as a webapp. And now we have Docker with Kubernetes…Sitecore4 min readSitecore4 min read
Oct 2, 2022Detect Unicorn duplicate items during CI/CD buildHello friends! Do you use Unicorn often in your Sitecore projects? I bet you do, unless you prefer Sitecore Content Serialization. If so — have you ever faced a situation when your source code serialized files contains duplicate item IDs which fails the content sync? If yes — this article…Sitecore3 min readSitecore3 min read
Sep 18, 2022Using SPE Sitecore Content Migration script for content sync between Sitecore instancesHello, Today I’d like to cover on SPE Content Migrator script. Recently I was tasked with implementing automated content sync between Sitecore instances. And as part of investigation I’ve found this beautiful repo with migration script made by Michael West GitHub - michaellwest/Spe-Content-Migrator: Script used to migrate content between Sitecore… Script used to migrate content between Sitecore instances using Sitecore PowerShell Extensions. Prerequisites: Unicorn…github.comSitecore3 min readSitecore3 min read
Sep 11, 2022Sitecore DEF + SXA — Part 4: Resolving item with folder groupingHello friends. Continuing on our series on the SXA and DEF integration. As you know DEF has OOTB option to resolve and create an item when its being migrated. As a parameter you can configure parent item, new item template and field mapping. But what if you are migrating thousands…Sitecore2 min readSitecore2 min read
Jun 26, 2022Sitecore DEF + SXA — Part 3: Adding rendering with data source to the presentation detailsHello friends! Last article we talked about how we are going to add local SXA data sources with DEF framework. Sitecore DEF + SXA — Part 2: Resolving SXA local data source item | by Jack Spektor | Jun, 2022 | Medium Today let’s talk about how can we add…Sitecore3 min readSitecore3 min read
Jun 26, 2022Sitecore DEF + SXA — Part 2: Resolving SXA local data source itemHello friends. This is the continuation on my series of SXA+DEF code snippets. You can see my previous post from the series here: Sitecore DEF + SXA — Part 1: Handling duplicate items when resolving item | by Jack Spektor | Jun, 2022 | Medium Today we are going to…Sitecore2 min readSitecore2 min read
Jun 19, 2022Sitecore DEF + SXA — Part 1: Handling duplicate items when resolving itemHello friends. Took some time off writing on Sitecore topic for a while, but back to business now, so… here we go again! Today I’m going to share some experience from using Sitecore DEF. For those who don’t know its a Sitecore framework that helps to simplify the process of…Sitecore3 min readSitecore3 min read
Apr 26, 2021Personalization in JSS SSG modeHi As you know JSS as amazing it is doesn’t support personalization in static-site generation (SSG) mode. And if you haven’t seen Adam Lamarre (https://twitter.com/erzr) made an amazing solution for solving this issue. Using fetchPlaceholderData for Personalization on Static Sitecore JSS Sites Time flies, I published my static site generator for Sitecore JSS back in August. Most of the questions I got around it…www.adamlamarre.comSitecore 102 min readSitecore 102 min read
Nov 12, 2020Extending Sitecore.BotFrameworkHi, previously I’ve wrote about a framework I’m building — it allows you to build a quick simple chatbot without any need for code by just using Sitecore content tree and some Sitecore rules magic. Here is the current functionality of the framework: Sitecore.BotFramework is released! If you remember in my previous posts I was working on a module that would allow rapid creation of chatbots in Sitecore…chatbotslife.comSitecore3 min readSitecore3 min read
Nov 8, 2020Tracking Sitecore A/B tests with Google AnalyticsAs many of you may know Sitecore comes with handy A/B tests functionality OOTB. It allows you to easily specify variations for your data sources and components, measure the performance with Sitecore analytics and choose the winner based on that performance. Yet many websites uses Google Analytics for tracking the…Sitecore2 min readSitecore2 min read
