In Episerver projects there are at least two options to set your site settings. The most common ones are: use a settings page (which does not have a view nor it is navigable) or use the Start Page. We tend to use the second option because the reference to the start page is easy to […]
Usually when you have multiple sites in an Episerver implementation your models are inherit by all sites you create under the root node. However, not all the properties in a model are used in all sites. In this post, we are going to address this issue by using an attribute which will hide (not remove) […]
As I explained in this blog post, it is easy to add and remove features to a TinyMCE editor in Episerver. However, when you want to add things that are outside of the usual features the editor allows, you must dig dipper in the documentation of TinyMce. For instance, when you want to add an […]
As part of the process to deliver our plugins to the new Episerver app marketplace we had to create several documents for each plugin. In this post we are going to talk about these documents, how we tackled each of them and some general recommendations. The first document you should read is the Verification Guidelines […]
This year we had the opportunity to work with Episerver in a new initiative to create a marketplace where developers and partners can use different add-ons to improve the experience for clients. The first step to be considered as part of this marketplace was to have great ideas that can help the Episerver community. In […]
As part of the EPiServer Ascend event, EPiServer showcased EPiServer Foundation. In this post I am going to explain what it is, what can you use it for, what are some of the pros and cons, and how to install it. So, lets begin !!!! What it is? EPiServer Foundation is an accelerator created by […]
During the EPiServer Ascend event I attended a lab called external content replication which I though was quite interesting, you can find the instructions here. The lab showed us how to treat external content, integrate it in EPiServer using a job, save it outside of the root site and create these content types in a different tab of the assets […]
I think this is a common issue when you create a job in EPiServer, you try to get the start page from the code and unfortunately the ContentReference.StartPage does not have the correct nor valid reference set in the variable. This post is about two possible solutions that you can use to solve this problem. […]
While researching about how to intercept the download of a media file we found several posts, like this one, that mentioned the use of DownloadMediaRouter.DownloadSegment to get the file name and send it as part of the content disposition header of the response. Unfortunately, in our project it did not work as expected in all […]
While researching about how to get all blocks of an specific type we found that the only available solution was to use the ContentModelUsage API . However, if some of the blocks are not referenced in a page this API will not be useful. Moreover, if a block is referenced 10.000 times in the CMS […]