Avoiding React Hydration Warnings When Rendering Sitecore Dynamic Placeholders

If you’re working with React and Next.js — especially with Sitecore JSS — you might have run into a confusing warning like this:

“This Suspense boundary received an update before it finished hydrating.”

It sounds scary, but it basically means React got confused while it was trying to “wake up” the server-rendered HTML and make it interactive on the browser.

In this post, I’ll explain what hydration means, why this error happens, and how I fixed it when rendering Sitecore placeholders inside a React component.

Sitecore Marketplace :: Custom field parent/child components limitation

I have been working with Sitecore Marketplace since it was released, built a couple of custom fields, some for work and some for run, if you have not seen my previous blog post, here is the link for it, in which I show how to create a custom field for image selector from lytho DAM, and how you can add it to your datasource template; while doing that we ran into a case where we see a limitation and working with Sitecore team to register a feature request; if you're intrested keep reading. 

Sitecore Marketplace :: My experience building my first app (custom field type)

 Sitecore has recently releases Sitecore Marketplace, which is the way you can go with if you would like to extend Sitecore XM Cloud, Sitecore announced and talked about Sitecore Marketplace in 2024 Sitecore Symposium, here is a previous post you can check about Sitecore Marketplace, in this post I will walk you through my experience creating my first custom field, I wanted to create an image selection field,. where author can select an image from Lytho DAM. 

Sitecore Search :: API Crawler Pagination

 I've been working recently on my first Sitecore search project, finally i got a chance to work on this amazing product by Sitecore, I dealt with different sources types, and once of the challenges I got is to deal with paginated APIs that we need to index its data, in this blog post I will walk you through how you can index data from all pages, interested, keep reading!! 

Sitecore XM Cloud + Netlify :: Netlify CLI and Deno installation issue

During a recent project, I encountered a strange issue while deploying a Sitecore XM Cloud solution to a new Netlify environment. The problem was related to Deno installation, which unexpectedly disrupted the deployment process. If you've run into a similar issue—or you're just curious about what Deno is and how it ties into Netlify—keep reading. I’ll walk you through what happened, explain what Deno is, and show you how to resolve the issue.

Sitecore XMC :: Local NextJS build timeout

While working on a recent Sitecore XM Cloud project, I ran into a frustrating issue when trying to build my Next.js app locally using pnpm run build. No matter what I tried, the build kept failing with a 60-second timeout. The error message always began with:

⚠ Sending SIGTERM signal to Next.js build worker due to timeout of 60 seconds. Subsequent errors may be a result of the worker exiting.

If you’ve encountered this error and are stuck like I was — don’t worry. In this post, I’ll walk you through what’s causing it and how to fix it.

Sitecore Hotfix(s) Management: From Local Builds to DevOps Pipelines

In recent months, we’ve seen  many Sitecore hotfixes and security patches. While essential, applying these updates—first locally and then through your DevOps pipeline—can quickly become confusing without a proper setup. To ensure your patches are applied consistently, tracked effectively, and deployed securely, you need a structured approach baked into your solution. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to manage Sitecore hotfixes the right way. Interested? Let’s dive in.

    SECURITY HOTFIXES MANAGEMENT   

Auditing a Sitecore Headless Website: Key Areas and Best Practices - Part1

Recently, I was asked to conduct an audit for a Sitecore headless website built using Sitecore JSS and Next.js. As part of this process, I reviewed various aspects of the solution—from content modeling and rendering strategies to performance, deployment, and developer experience. In this blog post—and in upcoming entries—I’ll be sharing some of the critical areas you should evaluate, along with best practices to follow when auditing or building a Sitecore JSS/Next.js application. Whether you're a Sitecore developer, architect, or technical lead, these insights can help ensure your implementation is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for a modern digital experience.

Curious to learn more? Keep reading!

Coveo for Sitecore :: Content Recommendation

 In this post I will share my experience working with Coveo content recommendation, in a recent project we wanted to implemented content recommendation for blogs items, while we utilized the wildcard approach for blog details page, this was challenging, specially with Coveo analytics and view event, keep reading to know more!! 

Sitecore Audit :: Excessive use of variants definitions :: Catch with PS Script

Continuing on this series of a useful Sitecore PowerShell scripts that you will need while working on a Sitecore Audit, in this post we will discuss how you should not have excessive use of rendering variants, For Sitecore SXA best practices, it's recommended to limit the number of rendering variants to 15 or preferably below 10 to maintain a manageable and efficient development process. will explain in this post why? and if you're performing a sitecore audit, how you can catch that with simple PowerShell script, keep reading!! 

Sitecore MVP 2025 Announcements

 

[Americaneagle.com] [Mohammed Syam] Recognized as a Sitecore Most Valuable Professional

Honored for commitment to sharing expertise with the global Sitecore community

Sitecore Symposium 2024 :: Sitecore Marketplace

Sitecore marketplace has been announced at this year Sitecore Symposium, it has been discussed during MVP summit in addition to a great roadmap session by product team, in this blogs post I will summarize my takeaways including a definition of Sitecore Marketplace, what it means for developers, customers and partners in addition to the current and future roadmap, not to be missed reading!   

Sitecore Symposium 2024 Day 1 Takeaways!

Sitecore Symposium 2024 took place last week in the country music city Nashville, Tennessee where the city become the digital experience city fir the whole week, where all sitecore experts from around the world meet and share experiences, knowledge and listen to Sitecore latest news and announcements, in this post I will share my key takeaways from this year symposium, from the main keynotes to the roadmaps and to the fun party we had at broadway street, keep reading!! 

Discover What’s Ahead at Sitecore Symposium 2024

 One week left for Sitecore Symposium 2024 in Nashville, as always, Sitecore symposium carry a lot of news and knowledge for everyone. from keynotes to R&D roadmaps to long list of sessions that excite every developer and marketer, here is a quick post to share what to look for at next week Sitecore Symposium!! 

Sitecore SXA virtual media folder :: Customized!!

 If you worked with Sitecore SXA before, you must be familiar with the virtual media folder concept, mainly the folder that you usually see with the name "Media" under each website you create under your tenant, but have you ever tried or needed to create such folder out of a tenant with a different name than MEDIA as example, lets say to make it easier for your content author to get into a long path folder. not? then don't try, its not going to work! interested, keep reading! 

Sitecore Audit :: Source field for image fields :: Catch with PS Script

Continuing on this series of a useful Sitecore PowerShell scripts that you will need while working on a Sitecore Audit, as setting a source for image fields is a best practice when working with Sitecore image field, in this post will share a PS script that will help you find any image field that has no source configured which will save you a lot of time to find these instances, interested, keep reading! 

 

Sitecore SXA Code Datasource :: Caching!!

In this quick blog post I wanted to share my experience working with code: datasource type, if you didn't hear of this type of datasource in Sitecore with SXA, this blog will be a good article to go through, in addition I wanted to share how we can configure datasource caching OOTB and in some cases using custom code if needed, interested, keep reading! 

Sitecore Audit :: Avoid duplicate field names : Catch with PS script

This is a quick blog post where I want to share a useful script that you would need when working on a Sitecore Audit, if you have been working with Sitecore for a while, you mush have seen or worked on Sitecore Audits for existing website, one of the items that you audit is to confirm and make sure that the implementation avoid the existing of duplicate fields, in this post I will share a Sitecore PowerShell extensions script that you can use to find such incidents, interested, keep reading! 

Sitecore XM Cloud Migration :: Content + Code!!

Have you worked on a sitecore XM Cloud yet? Are you preparing for your XM Cloud project? Is it a brand new or a rewrite of an existing website, if it s rewrite or a redesign, you probably need to plan content migration in addition to probably some code migration to speed up your project timeline, in this blog post will share some of tools that you can for your content migration & code migration. Interested… keep reading! 

Sitecore XM Cloud :: Creating deployment unauthorized message

 I've been learning and trying XM Cloud over the last few weeks, one of the issues that I came across & worth sharing is a CLI deployment issues that need you to pay attention to details when reading documentation, through to highlight it here in case anyone else came through, following is the error message I got when trying to crate CM deployment through CLI: 

You are not authorized to perform the task you are attempting, you may need to assign addition permissions.

 

Coveo for Sitecore :: Creating a custom toggle facet

 In a recent project I was working on, we needed to create a custom Coveo for Sitecore facet which looks like a toggle, if you know Coveo for Sitecore Hive OOTB components you probably know that OOTB we don't have such a component, so, we would need to create a custom implementation for such component, if you got excited, keep reading! 

Sitecore XM Cloud :: Build & Deploy internal server error

 I've been recently working on an CM Cloud project, and was getting "Internal Server Error" when trying to build & deploy using the deploy app in XM Cloud, in this post I will show you how did we resolve the issue, keep reading! 

Sitecore XM Cloud Forms :: What to expect, what not to expect?

 Sitecore recently released Sitecore Cloud forms as part of the XM Cloud product, so if you have an XM Cloud instance, if you check the launch PAD now, you will see a new icon for FORMS!! in this blog post I will share what cloud forms have and what is still developing and missing in the current released version, keep reading! 

Configuring Sitecore XM Cloud Forms with Webhook Submit Action!

 In this article, I'll demonstrate the process of configuring a submit action in XM Cloud forms. As you're aware, Sitecore XMC forms have recently been released, featuring a range of functionalities including setting up webhooks and assigning them to forms for data submission. Moreover, the introduction of a test webhook functionality allows for seamless testing of form webhooks to ensure successful connections. Excited to learn more? Keep reading!

Sitecore MVP 2024 Announcements

 

[Americaneagle.com] [Mohammed Syam] wins Sitecore Most Valuable Professional award

Elite distinction awarded for commitment and dedication to the Sitecore community

XM Cloud :: GraphQL Playground :: Query is too nested to execute error!

while working recently on an XM Cloud project, I ran into issue with GraphQL we were preparing to pull the header component data source, basically when we execute the query in the GraphQL playground we get ""Query is too nested to execute. Depth is 17 levels, maximum allowed on this endpoint is 15." Error, if you want to know how to resolve this, keep reading! 

XM Cloud Architect Tips :: SUGCON Takeaways!

I believe a lot of architects working with Sitecore ecosystem is eager to learn CM cloud, if they're not already started, while working with XM Cloud has some close enough implementation to headless implementation with XM on premise or PaaS it has some differences, a great presentation I attended in the SUGCON NA last month where Andy Cohen shared some very important tips when working with XM Cloud, in this post I will share some of my takeaways out of that session. 

XM Cloud :: Failed to register layer error

 While setting up my local instance for an XM Cloud project I got into a strange error while trying to build images locally, an error "failed to register layer: Cannot create layer with missing parent acf3d164746bcef47b6a7fd46c5912a1103931480f6bcf9336efa664f58ad669: The system cannot find the file specified." keep happening, in this post I will share the steps I tried to resolve the error, hopefully it will be useful for someone. 

Sitecore DX Minneapolis 2023 :: Recap!

 As you know Sitecore this year decided to go with smaller events called Sitecore DX instead of the well known Sitecore Symposium, to make it simpler and easier for everyone to attend this event in their region, this time the DX event was at Minneapolis and my company Americaneagle.com was a diamond sponsor for this event, their was big announcements in this event, in this post I will share my recap from this one day event! 

Sitecore MVP Summit 2023 :: Recap

 We had an amazing Sitecore MVP Summit last week at Minnesota, we did meet with other mvps from all around the world, also we had a great conversations with Sitecore people, discussing latest and coming updated to the different products,  we also had a wonderful night on Monday with a lot of fun games! In this post I will share with you my recap of this couple days event, some of the news that we can share!

A week of fun with Sitecore

 Here we come Minneapolis, it will a lot of fun with sitecore this coming week, Sitecore MVP summit, Sitecore DX and Sitecore user group conference north America (SUGCON NA), wohooo!! so if you're heading there, go a head and read this post where you can find my list to attend in this week! 

Content Hub Certification Exam :: Tips!

 Are you planning to be Sitecore Content Hub certified developer? are you curios where you should start? where you can find resources? what topics you should be focus on for the exam? in this blog post I'm sharing my experience preparing for the exam and some of the topics/areas that should focus on, excited? keep reading... 

Working with Sitecore Managed Cloud Containers - Tips!!

 I have been working with Sitecore Managed Cloud containers for the last couple months now and I thought to share some tips and information that I believe its very useful while using MC Containers, like working with The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl to troubleshoot issues that may happen while working on MC containers, interested, keep reading! 

Sitecore Indexes rebuild causes site crash/recompile!!

Have you ever ran into issue where while rebuilding sitecore indexes; the sitecore instance just suddenly recompile?!, checking log files and there are no errors related to indexes? here is a quick blog post where I wanted to share one issue I have faced and how did we troubleshoot and resolve. 

Sitecore Content Hub: Finding Assets with Missing Renditions

 If you worked with Sitecore Content Hub, you must have worked with DAM module and in particular your worked with Renditions, if you don't know much about renditions I would suggest to go through my previous articles on it, just click here, In these previous posts I have explains renditions and how you can refresh renditions and how sometimes refresh rendition will be challenging, in this post I would like to provide some scripts samples of how you can find assets with missing renditions, keep reading! 

Sitecore PowerShell Script - Create redirects map

 If you worked with Sitecore SXA you probably already know that its comes with out of the box redirect feature, You can use the mapping tool to set up a 301/302 or server transfer redirect from the original URL to the updated URL, this is useful when you're re-designing your website or if you're creating a new page for an existing URL, this redirect tool provide a way to group redirects in a redirect map, through a Name Value List field, in this post I will show you how you can import you're redirect items into Sitecore in a very easy way.

Solr Suggester for SXA Search Box using SearchStax.

 In a recent project I have been working on, we had a DEV, Staging and Prod environment on Sitecore managed Cloud - Containers, and one of the tasks we needed to do is to enable auto suggestions for SXA search box, in this post will show you how you can enable auto suggestions for SXA search box, how you can add search component and request handler to you solr instance specially in this case we are using searchStax for Solr nodes.

 

Sitecore MVP 2023 Announcements

 

[Americaneagle.com] [Mohammed Syam] wins Sitecore Most Valuable Professional award

Elite distinction awarded for commitment and dedication to the Sitecore community

Exporting a list of custom Content Hub Taxonomies Definitions Names

Have you worked on a content hub implementation where you needed to create too may taxonomies definitions? did you need to loop your client in the process of updating these taxonomies and their translations? how would you get a list of created taxonomies (Definition Names)? you probably checked the UI and you figured out already that there is no way to do that OOTB, if you didn't get into this case before you probably going to in future, its very simple to accomplish this with Content Hub Scripts. keep reading! 

Sitecore Symposium Day 3 :: Keynote Recap

Today is the the 3rd day for Sitecore Symposium 2022 in Chicago, it started with a fantastic keynote by Chief Product Officer Dave O’Flanagan, where he dives deep into the latest product innovations at Sitecore and sets out our vision for the next 12 months and how Sitecore’s evolving end-to-end composable DXP gives brands the agility, speed and flexibility they need to meet every moment across the customer journey with standout digital experiences. If you missed or looking for a summary of the keynote, this is what you're looking for, keep reading! 

Sitecore Symposium Day 2 Recap

 Finally after 3 years Sitecore Symposium is back in-person in Chicago, today was the second day for 2022 Sitecore Symposium, there were a lot of news, updates, and new products announced, and if you missed it, don't worry I got you covered, Keep reading and you will catch up! 

Sitecore Content Hub Session Timeout

If you worked with Sitecore Content Hub you will notice that the default session timeout behavior is 20 or 30 minutes, regardless if the session is active or not, which will cause an issue for you if you're working or you're in a middle of a long update, in this post I will show where and how you can find and update the configuration of the Content Hub sessions timeout.