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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
About this book
Over 70 incredibly effective and practical recipes to get you up and running with Sitecore development
About This Book
- Build enterprise-level rich websites quickly and deliver the best possible content management to your website
- Get maximum usage of functionalities like different user interfaces, workflow, publishing, search, analytics, etc and learn different rendering techniques using presentation components for data bindings, events, handlers, schedulers, media, etc.
- Add a surprising amount of functionality just by customizing the Sitecore architecture through the best practices contained in this book
Who This Book Is For
If you are a Sitecore developer or a programmer who wants to expand your Sitecore development skills, this book is ideal for you. You will need working knowledge of ASP.NET WebForms or MVC, as well as HTML, and a basic knowledge of Sitecore installation.
What You Will Learn
- Create, access, and personalize your website content using different Sitecore presentation components
- Learn how to extend the presentation components to fulfill some real-life requiremnts such as improving the site's performance, generating Rss feeds and so on
- Work with multiple websites on a single Sitecore instance and create multilingual websites
- Customize the Sitecore interfaces as per your business requirements to provide easier and error-free user interface to content authors to save time and improve accuracy
- Customize the Sitecore backend architecture as per your business needs
- Automate tasks and achieve scalability by altering the development and configuration settings
- Integrate external systems with Sitecore to import or export content and secure user interactions
- Integrate the advanced features of analytics and personalization, to get the best possible customer experience and generate its reports
In Detail
This book will get you started on building rich websites, and customizing user interfaces by creating content management applications quickly. It will give you an insight into web designs and how to customize the Sitecore architecture as per your website's requirements using best practices.
Packed with over 70 recipes to help you achieve and solve real-world common tasks, requirements, and the problems of content management, content delivery, and publishing instance environments. It also presents recipes on Sitecore's backend processes of customizing pipelines, creating custom event handler and media handler, setting hooks and more. Other topics covered include creating a workflow action, publishing sublayouts and media files, securing your environment by customizing user profiles and access rights, boosting search capabilities, optimising performance, scalability and high-availability of Sitecore instances and much more.
By the end of this book, you will have be able to add virtually limitless features to your websites by developing and deploying Sitecore efficiently.
Style and approach
This easy-to-follow guide is full of hands-on recipes on real-world development tasks to improve your existing Sitecore system. Each topic is presented with its benefits and detailed steps to achieve it through well-explained code and images.
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Basic Presentation Components
Introduction
Creating a simple content page using template and layout
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Creating a sidebar menu using view rendering and RenderingModel
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Creating breadcrumb using the view and custom model
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Creating carousel using view and controller renderings
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Placing renderings dynamically using placeholders
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Empowering the Experience Editor using placeholder settings
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Restricting or swapping rendering controls on placeholders
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
2. Extending Presentation Components
Introduction
Altering rendering behavior using component properties
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Creating strongly typed rendering parameters
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
Achieving asynchronous operations using a custom device
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Creating multilingual content pages
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Generating RSS feeds for syndicated items
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
There's moreā¦
Improving site performance by caching renderings
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
HTML cache statistics
When to avoid caching
There's moreā¦
See also
Personalizing components
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
3. Customizing the User Interface Framework
Introduction
Adding a custom command to item context menu
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Creating a gutter to show unpublished items
How to do itā¦
There's moreā¦
Creating a Sheer UI application using XAML control to list products
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
xamlControls
Creating a SPEAK application to list and sort products
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Searching and filtering products using SPEAK
How to do itā¦
There's moreā¦
Building a custom form to bind product details using SPEAK
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Creating a custom editor tab in the Content Editor
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Creating a custom experience button using the Field Editor
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
There's moreā¦
Creating a custom rule to validate item fields
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Creating a custom sorting routine to sort the content tree items
Getting Ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Creating a custom field to save the date time with time zones
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Making fields editable from the Experience Editor
There's moreā¦
4. Leveraging the Sitecore Backend
Introduction
Working with multiple sites
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Customizing pipelines to achieve a custom 404 page
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Patch configuration
There's moreā¦
Creating a custom event handler to auto-publish on an item save
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Achieving a site-specific URL pattern for a multisite environment
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
See also
Initializing hooks to subscribe events to prepare an audit trail
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Creating jobs to accomplish long-running operations
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Using a scheduling agent to delete older item versions
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Scheduling database tasks
How to doā¦
How it worksā¦
5. Making Content Management More Efficient
Introduction
Using dictionary domains for multilingual sites on a multisite environment
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Bind a dictionary to a site
A fallback dictionary domain
See also
Creating vanity URLs for marketing purposes using an alias item
How to doā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Centralizing common content using a clone item
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
See also
Using a wildcard item to integrate external content
Getting ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Placing dynamic content in the Rich Text Editor by replacing tokens
Getting Ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
There's moreā¦
Adding a custom tool to the Rich Text Editor to generate tokens
Getting Ready
How to do itā¦
How it worksā¦
Dealing with user-generated content using an Item Web API
Getting Ready
How to do itā¦
There's moreā¦
Storing external content using a custom cache
Getting Rea...
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