Sitecore User Group Jordan

This is a blog post doesn’t related to technical sitecore topic but in this post I will talk about the experience and the joy of creating a sitecore user group Jordan.

Master Details Using Sitecore SPEAK

I started to learn sitecore SPEAK and I want to share my first hello world application I did using sitecore SPEAK.

In this application I just used a WFFM to save a form as a sitecore item and I used sitecore SPEAK application to display these sitecore data items as master details page.

I will go through the second part of my application which is the part of displaying the data as master detail using Sitecore SPEAK.

Personalize widget Content

In this blog I will explain how you can personalize a widget ( user control ) content based on specific code or variable with giving the ability to sitecore content editor to add, update and delete this personalization.

We will use a built in sitecore feature  called personalization using a rule engine ; under sitecore you will find many personalization rules based on different criteria like engagements plans and goals.

Sitecore Solr Search Result Items Relevance Percentage

In a latest project I worked on there was a requirement on site search that a percent value should be displayed for each result item describe how much accurate it is for the current search criteria ( filters ), Or in another words we want to sort the returned result items starting with the closet item to search filters at the top.

Sitecore SiteMap Part 3

In this post we will talk about the code in details according Advanced Sitecore SiteMap module, I will explain the main areas and at the end I will include links to Github repository contains the latest code.

Sitecore SiteMap Part 2

In sitecore sitemap part 1 blog post I discussed what sitecore sitemap module should have to be complete and to cover all your needs from sitemap perspective, And in this blog post I will explain the advanced SiteMap module I built and discuss the different functionalities provided in it.

Sitecore Sitemap Part 1

 

In this blog I will talk about sitemap in sitecore and I will guide you for both creating a sitecore xml sitemap for SEO optimization and creating an html sitemap to be used in your  website.

Sitecore Items Operations

In the last project I worked on I face a number of cases in which I needed to use sitecore API for different operations and I believe it will be useful to share the following operations:

1.       Add/Edit sitecore item ( different language versions )

2.       Delete/Recycle sitecore item

3.       Set sitecore Item workflow.

4.       Publish Sitecore Item ( Allow/Prevent publish).

5.       Read Item security access rights.

6.       Set sitecore item sort order.

Setup Solr Search Provider for Sitecore

In this blog we will talk about how to use solr as a search provider for sitecore search; As you know the default search provider for sitecore is Lucene.

 

Dictionary Items Langauge Fallback

In this blog we will discuss the language fallback within Sitecore and with language fallback we mean that if the requested item has no version on the current context language then the system should get the item in another language "Fallback Language".

WFFM 2.5 and sitecore 7.5 (Save To Database)

Recently I have asked to install WFFM to sitecore 7.5 and make sure that forms submitted data is saved to database.

I will share a few points that actually can help you if you have similar task:

Sitecore solr search boosting

In this blog I will explain a useful functionality in sitecore solr search that it used when you want to sort search result item based in clauses ( predicates ) matching.

Sitecore XP :: Federated Experience Manager

In this blog I will talk about another great feature of sitecore experience platform which is federated experience manager "FXM", 

Sitecore 8 will give you the power to track visitors of an external non sitecore sites by just adding a single JavaScript line!, so let's dive deep and know more about this feature.

Sitecore XP :: Path Analyzer

As I gave you a little overview on the new features in sitecore 8 I will start a series of blogs to dive deep in each of these features to let you know more and more about how great is the new sitecore version.

In this blog I will explain an interesting feature that sitecore 8 added which is the "Path Analyzer" which give you the power to know more about your site visitors movements through your site, so let's start..

Sitecore 8 What's New?

As most of you know sitecore 8 or sitecore XP ( experience platform ) has been released lately with so many new feature, enhancements and modifications, In this blog I will try to give you an overview on some of sitecore XP updates.

Sitecore search facets

Sitecore search comes with a lot of amazing features that facilitate users to find their data, Tags and facets are examples of these features, we will give a simple information that will help to understand facets concept.

Sitecore 7 Arabic search, spell check And suggestions

Sitecore 7 Arabic search, spell check And suggestions

Recently I was asked to create a proof of concepts for sitecore Arabic search with spell checking and suggestion accordingly while searching and investigating I had a good results and to let our TANASUK value "Sharer's" comes true I am sharing these results.