Sitecore Symposium 2024

and the Sitecore MVP Summit & Partner Connect Two weeks ago, I traveled to Nashville for a week filled with events, networking, catching up with old friends and making new ones, sharing knowledge, and discussing Sitecore’s products, go-to-market strategy, and technical roadmaps. It was one of the best events in years, thanks to some exciting …

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Migrating to XM Cloud

XM Cloud is the CMS of Sitecore’s new Composable DXP. It is a further development of their original CMS, but packed and serviced completely different. It’s SaaS, less hassle to maintain, quicker and easier to develop on, a lot easier to work with for content editors, but still as powerful and versatile as before. So …

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XM Cloud DevOps pipeline

The easiest way to deploy your project to your XM Cloud instance is manually via the Sitecore Cloud Portal. If you go to the XM Cloud Deploy dashboard, you can not only create projects and environments, but also start a “Build and deploy” process for a specific environment. While that might seem convenient and perfectly …

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New in Content Hub: focal point crop option!

On August 25, Sitecore released a new feature within Content Hub: a focal point crop option when creating public links or custom downloads. As mentioned in the release notes over here it makes it easier to get the desired crop for a certain image, as you now no longer have to try and combine the …

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Focal point cropping v3.2

I just released a new version of my Focal point cropping module for Sitecore Content Hub. It is tested with the latest version of Content Hub (which is now on auto-update), has a small new feature, and most importantly, I got rid of all vulnerabilities and outdated dependencies in my npm setup. I now also …

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Default SCS in XM Cloud

When I started working with the XM Cloud setup on my local development environment using the Docker container images provided by Sitecore, I added some content serialization config files and enthusiastically started creating data templates, rendering items and demo content. I then had to switch to another project for a bit, stopped my containers and …

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Naming public links for cropping ratios

Focal point cropping version 3.1 A small but impactful update on my focal point cropping implementation for Content Hub, thanks to a suggestion / feature request from Jorgen Jansson from Creative Folks (thanks again for your wonderful contributions Jorgen!): I have added the possibility to name your public links instead of using the ratio itself …

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Focal point crop 3.0: go React!

It took a little longer than planned, but I have finally released a completely new version of my Focal point cropping extension for Content Hub, version 3.0. This new version contains a React version of the external page components Focal point editor and Public link viewer (I have slightly changed the names of the components). …

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Sitecore Technology MVP 2023!

When I started sharing my ideas and findings on Sitecore in one of the local user groups back in 2014 I would’ve never believed I once would be able to say this, but I am proud and grateful to be named Most Valuable Professional by Sitecore for no less than the eight time in a …

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External page components in CH4.2

To improve performance and add new features, Content Hub is replacing the front-end Knockout framework with React from 4.2.x going forward. Using React should also make it easier to develop custom components. This is of course great news, but it also introduced an issue for those being used to building custom external page components that …

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