Guess what...Sitecore launched a trial license with 60 days trial. https://www.sitecore.net/getting-started/implementation/developing-on-sitecore Its such a great news for the folks who are either New to Sitecore and want to make their hands dirty on Sitecore Development Freelancers who are currently not on any project Developers who are not allowed to use the Client's license on personal... Continue Reading →
Did you ask – Why should I upgrade to Sitecore 9 ?
Same question again and without any doubt Sitecore is ready with bagful of features to answer the question that – Why should we upgrade to Sitecore 9? Referring the history every intermediate release of Sitecore from one update to another comes with critical bug fixes, patches and sometime new features. But whenever a new version... Continue Reading →
GeoIP Tracking in MongoDB and Forward Request HTTP Header
When we load balance your web site at layer 7, it will become non-transparent. This means that the actual client source IP address is replaced by the load balancer’s own IP address, and therefore ONLY this address will be recorded in the IIS logs. One way around this is to insert X-Forwarded-For headers on the load balancer to... Continue Reading →
Building Sitemap XML for Delivery Servers
OOB "Sitemap XML Module" generate the Sitemap XML on Content Management Servers only. To get it generated on Content Delivery Servers as well, we need to add a custom event. Normally we have atleast one Content Management and one Content Delivery Server. But on scalable and distributed architecure number of servers increases based on requirements.... Continue Reading →
Historical analytics data conversion to MongoDB for Sitecore 8.x – Batch Aggregation
Are you currently using Sitecore Analytics without MongoDB? Are you planning to upgrade Sitecore to 7.5 or upper version with MongoDB? If yes, its time to decide whether you want to convert the historical data or want to go with a fresh MongoDB setup. Cause if you want the historical analytics data, you need to go... Continue Reading →
Versioned Layouts in Sitecore 8x
Versioned layouts make it possible to specify different layouts for different versions and languages of the same item. You use versioned layouts when you want to: Have different layouts for different languages. Publish a specific version with its own layout for a specific period. Sitecore uses versioned layouts internally for various content-testing features, for example,... Continue Reading →
Accelerating Content Tree Performance
Let talk about few tiny tips to accelerate the performance of content tree. Sometimes we experience that the content tree is taking longer than expected to open. It may be because of various reasons but there are few tips which can help us to speed up the content tree opening time. Avoid opening the entire... Continue Reading →
Playing with WFFM in Sitecore
You use web forms to collect information from website visitors. You can then view and analyze this information in the Web Forms for Marketers reports. You can create a web form in the Experience Editor directly on your website. There are two ways to create a form: Insert a ready-made web form Create a blank... Continue Reading →
Multi-Site in Sitecore and LiveMode.config
If you don’t want to bother publishing your local Sitecore site every time you make a change (especially when developing). There’s a nifty file named LiveMode.config.example, located in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\yoursitecoresite\Website\App_Config\Include\ . It comes with the sitecore install, and for a normal single-site Sitecore instance, simply removing the “.example” from the filename will let you view your... Continue Reading →
SITECORE DEVELOPER TOOL
While looking for some useful tools to use Sitecore, I came to know about Sitecore Developer Tool Chrome Extension. This tool gives you an ease to use Sitecore with various features. Please find the extension in Chrome Addons and install it. Once installed the extension you can see it in the right corner of your google... Continue Reading →