Sitecore Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2021

 

MVP award is being given by Sitecore, the global leader in digital experience and content management every year to recognize the individuals who contributed over the previous year, I'm honoured, thrilled and humbled to be awarded as a Sitecore MVP for the 6th year in a row, it still feels the same way as the first time I got it.  

Override Coveo Global Search Box

In a recent project I was working on, this projtect contain up to 7 microsites, were these microsites sub trees of the content tree under the main site home item, there was a Coveo for Sitecore cloud 4 implementation, and as requested we wanted to use the same global search result, BUT when a user initiated search from any of these microsites we wanted the search result to be pre-filtered by the microsite the search initiated from, in this post I will show you how we did this.

WFFM Data Report Statistics

In a recent project I worked on, client reported an issue with the statistics fields for WFFM reports,  the visits, submission attempts and dropouts are displaying as zeros while the number of successful submissions has a value. This was the trigger to look deeper for this issue, in this post will mention the different WFFM forms data providers, and what is the issue with these statistics fields.

SUGCON Europe 2018 - Day 1

You have to like Sitecore, as a platform and as a community people, today this post is coming from Berlin where Sitecore user group conference 2018 is being conducted. In this post I will share my experience for the first day of SUGCON in addition to the previous day.

Sitecore User Group Jordan Experience

In this post I will share with you my experience as a speaker with Sitecore User Group Jordan  for the first time and will add some useful information about our goals, ideas and future plans.

Sitecore Attributes Patching

If you are working with sitecore since a while then of course you had the experience and the need of writing some custom processors and inject any of the existing Sitecore pipelines; and if you had enough experience you will definitely know that the best practice is to use a separated configuration file for this custom configuration and place it in the include folder.

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.

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.