Sitecore Stack Exchange - The First 6 Months
September 13th 2016 - this was the date that Sitecore Stack Exchange went public! We are more than 6 months down the line so here are some of the highlights of the first 6 months of the Sitecore Stac
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Right Click Unlock Item with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions
I have been asked many times if it is possible for non admin users in Sitecore to be able to unlock items that have been locked by others. The short answer is no, the Sitecore command (Sitecore.Shell.
Habitat Dependency Injection with Sitecore 8.2
If you attended @seanholmseby’s session on making Habitat your home at Sitecore Symposium 2016, you will have heard him discuss dependency injection with Sitecore 8.2 and how you can use this in the H
Sitecore.React - a new Sitecore module
I recently wrote a series of posts on how we could use React to create Sitecore components. React looks to be a great fit for Sitecore becuase just like Sitecore it is based around components that you
Sitecore and React - It IS that easy!
At Lightmaker we have had a number of discussions recently about how to streamline the front end build into a Sitecore environment. Our front end devs are all Mac based, so currently can’t run a loca
Sitecore and React - It IS that easy - Part II
Well the last post was getting a bit long, so I decided to split it up! Please read it here if you haven’t already. We left Sitecore with a new rendering type called React Controller Rendering, we
Setting up Solr on Habitat
The Sitecore Habitat project has got some great features in. One of my favourites is how the Gulp file is setup to make getting the project running on your local machine a breeze! It really does simpl
Watch your Guid format!
Maybe this should be in a “how to break Sitecore” section! Question: Which of these Guid formats is valid? 123456var ex1 = new Guid("00000000000000000000000000000000");var ex2 = new Guid(&qu
Watchout! You are in the web db!
Based on a vent by @cassidydotdk on the Sitecore Slack chat the other day, we were all laughing about the (multiple)times when we forget that we have switched to teh web database to check something ou
Advanced Cache Clearing
A recent post on Stack Overflow asked about clearing out the HtmlCache for a specific user, the short answer is in the post. But I thought I’d add some more detail to that answer here for anyone else