I needed to be able to manage favicons from within EPiServer. There are a lot of icons, a configuration json, xml for devices. You could of course create the all online, add them to your website, etc .... But to do that every time ..... Inspired by the great work of Rehan Saeed I created … Continue reading Manage FavIcons in EPiServer
Those of you who know me a bit better know that I hate doing the same thing over and over again. When you do a TypedSearch in EPiServer Find you will have to add your facets to the query. If you have multiple types you might end up with a switch, separate queries for different … Continue reading A generic TermsFacetFor solution
Unfortunately you cannot extend the CatalogNode in EPiServer Commerce and when browsing to it, you get a 404 page. Hopefully this will be possible in a future version. In the meantime you can use this to display your catalog node: In your view you can render a partial view, some static html, etc. You could … Continue reading Quick tip: display a view for the catalog node in EPiServer Commerce
Just a short post to let you know that I have updated the following packages to be compatible with EPiServer 9. Localization provider : NuGet, GitHub BlockSearch: NuGet, GitHub Keywords: NuGet, GitHub NLog for EPiServer: NuGet, GitHub Security Filters: NuGet, GitHub
As security is getting more and more important these days, as if it wasn't before... you probably add some response headers to add some extra security. Problem is, I find, that if you set them to strict or to easy, you will need a new deploy, if you manage them in your web.config. There is … Continue reading Manage your security headers in EPiServer
Though the API is still in pre release, I looked into adding NLog logging to EPiServer in an easy way, as a LoggerFactory. Turns out it's not very difficult and the API seems to work perfectly ok. Basically you have a logging factory, that needs to implement the ' ILoggerFactory' interface The logger itself needs … Continue reading Add NLog to your EPiServer site, the easy way
As you may have noticed EPiServer does not pick up the connection strings defined in Azure. This has been fixed in 8.30, but some of our projects have not been upgraded yet and are still on 7.15+, so this is what you can do to fix that, if you run into the same issue. You … Continue reading Have EPiServer 7 pick up connection strings defined in Azure Portal
Just a small notification that I have updated some of my packages for use with EPiServer 8. Block search solution Custom Localization provider Automated keywords Keep in mind that you will need to uninstall old package for the localization provider, due to a requested namespace change. I have also separated the localization service from the … Continue reading Packages updated for EPiServer 8
I noticed that customers usually do not want to enter Keywords for SEO, as it is too much work. I won't go into the discussion whether it's necessary to have them on you page or not, but this might help them. When I was coding this, I had the id to see if I could … Continue reading A pluggable Keywords extractor
Not really a big post, but I got some requests to update the provider for a newer version EPiServer. So version "2" is compatible with 7.7.1 and above. I also added on request an option for automatic translations through an external provider. I chose Bing, as it has quite enough free translations a month to … Continue reading A custom localization provider for EPiServer 7, revisited
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