If you came from Sitecore XP, you probably used Aliases: short, friendly paths that resolve to a longer item path without changing what the visitor sees in the address bar. In SitecoreAI / XM Cloud headless, classic aliases aren’t the tool anymore. Authors work with Redirect Maps, and the type that behaves like an alias is Server Transfer.
If you’ve ever dropped a perfectly valid Sitecore rendering into a nested <Placeholder> and watched Pages Builder (or your local app) complain that it can’t find the component in component-map.client, you’re not alone — and you’re probably not looking in the wrong place.
This post walks through a real debugging session from an XM Cloud / Sitecore Content SDK Next.js App Router site: adding a Video rendering inside an Interior Media Hero Banner placeholder. The component existed. The GraphQL query existed. The Sitecore rendering componentName was set. And yet the client still couldn’t resolve it.
Headless Sitecore gives you rich page data; Next.js App Router gives you a structured way to turn that into HTML metadata. The two fit together well once you know where metadata is defined, what Next.js actually renders, and which CMS fields you want to own
Recently, I was working on setting up a webhook using the Sitecore Experience Edge Admin API for a cache revalidation scenario. The goal was straightforward: whenever content is updated in Sitecore, trigger a webhook that tells the frontend application to clear or revalidate cached pages.
The implementation itself is well documented by Sitecore, but I ran into an authentication issue that was not immediately obvious. Every request to create the webhook returned a 401 Unauthorized response with the message:
edge.cdn.11: Unauthorized. Failed to find tenant.
After troubleshooting, I discovered the issue was related to the type of OAuth credentials I had created in the Sitecore Deploy app.
If you run into the same problem, this post may save you some time.
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When working with Sitecore XM Cloud (SitecoreAI), Next.js, and the Sitecore Content SDK, scoped Context IDs are strongly recommended — especially for values exposed to the browser.
I followed the official Sitecore documentation, created a scoped Context ID, wired it into my Next.js app… and still ended up with a runtime error that wasn’t obvious at all.
This post documents what went wrong, why the error message is misleading, and what you actually need to scope correctly.
When working with Sitecore XM Cloud and the Content SDK, adding a Form to a page can suddenly cause a runtime error that wasn’t there before. The error points to Cloud SDK initialization, but the connection between Forms and the Cloud SDK isn’t immediately obvious. This post explains why Sitecore XM Cloud Forms depend on the Cloud SDK Events package, what triggers the IE-0014 error, and where the SDK must be initialized to avoid breaking preview and production environments.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!!
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!!
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