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Customsing the Sitecore HTML cache clearer

Saturday, May 28, 2016

The default Sitecore CacheClearer can be a bit heavy handed, dumping all of the HTML cache for a site every time an item is published. This isn't always what is required, sometimes there are certain......

Sharing a Reporting & Processing role in Sitecore 8.0

Saturday, November 28, 2015

I have recently been working with a client to set up an new Sitecore 8.0 implementation. Their architecture included a shared Reporting / Processing instance, and so we looked for documentation on how......

Extending Sitecore Revolver to bulk update placeholder names

Saturday, April 18, 2015

While doing some re-factoring of Sitecore Layouts recently I wanted to rename some placeholders. This caused an issue as the old names were heavily referenced within the CMS, both in standard values......

Extending Sitecore Revolver to remove old versions

Saturday, November 1, 2014

I recently worked on a rebuild of an existing Sitecore site. This involved us doing a completely fresh build, then importing the existing items into the new solution. As the existing solution was live......

Sitecore Multisite 404, 500 & Robots.txt

Saturday, July 19, 2014

After working on many multisite Sitecore configurations, it's always surprised me that Sitecore doesn't provide the ability to specify different 404, 500 & robots.txt's for each site. In the past I've......