Tag Archives: Experience Editor

Improve Sitecore Experience Editor Performance by Disabling Number of Locked Items Counter

The Sitecore Experience Editor is not the fastest tool in the shed, but you can improve the performance slightly by disabling the counter on the “My items” button that shows how many items you currently have locked: The setting is … Continue reading

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Edit special field types in Sitecore Experience Editor – Custom Experience Editor Buttons replaces the Edit Frame

The Sitecore Experience Editor allows inline editing of simple field types like text and rich text (HTML) field, and a few complex ones like links. But editing checkboxes, lookup values, multiselect boxes, or any custom field you might have developed … Continue reading

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Sitecore Hiding items: Clean up the cluttered content tree

As a followup to a question from Derek Dysart on my previous post, How to make the experience editor a great experience for your editors I will explain how you can clean up the Sitecore content tree by hiding system items. A … Continue reading

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Sitecore how to make the experience editor a great experience for your editors

In Sitecore it is very easy to toss in a few renderings on a page, set the renderings flag to “editable”, and voila, the page is editable using the Sitecore Experience Editor. But that kind of laziness often ends up … Continue reading

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Sitecore register page events

A Page Event in Sitecore is a way of tracking when a user have reached a goal by executing a call to action on a specific page, for example: Downloaded a brochure Clicked your banner Done a search A page … Continue reading

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Extend the Sitecore FieldRenderer

The Sitecore FieldRenderer is the render controls used to render fields from Sitecore in a way that makes them page editable from the Page Editor (or Experience Editor as it is called in Sitecore 8). The FieldRenderer has been known … Continue reading

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