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Richard works as an independent sitecore specialist with various sitecore partners and clients. Richard has 6 years of experience working with sitecore in a wide array of industries including education, media, sports, health and advertising.



How to implement a proper 404 page in sitecore (that returns a 404 response header)

In order to get sitecore to return a 404 response header along with the 404 page, you need to create a custom pipeline entry. This blog article will show you how.

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Useful include file config patch snippets for sitecore

A list of handy patch file snippets for sitecore 6.3 onwards.

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Add custom tokens into your sitecore fields and replace them on render via pipeline

Tutorial on how to add a renderField pipeline extension to allow us to insert custom tokens into sitecore content fields and replace them on render.

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Web.config changes to run sitecore under .net 4 framework without using MVC

Alterations needed for a Sitecore web.config to make sitecore run on .NET4 framework on integrated mode without MVC.

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Modifying sitecore alias to append custom query strings via 301 redirect

Extend sitecore alias to append custom querystring vars.

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Getting sitecore dictionary items to work on CD Servers against WEB database

Work-around for sitecore Dictionary limitation which indexes only dictionary items on the Core DB.

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Fix for issue using SwitchMasterToWeb.config to remove all references to ‘master’ database v6.5 when running DMS 2.0

Error using SwitchMasterToWeb.config to remove all references to ‘master’ database v6.5 when running DMS 2.0 can be solved by adding Analytics.DefaultDefinitionDatabase setting to the patch file. – by CMS Source

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A starter patch file for new sitecore projects

There are very few reasons to pollute any of the web.config given that everything between the tags can be modified via patch files. I have attempted to share a basic ‘handy’ patch file here which can be used with any new sitecore solution. – By CMS Source.

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Ignore sub-item structure and link directly to an article in sitecore

In response to a forum post in SDN http://sdn.sitecore.net/SDN5/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=38809 , I thought I would blog about this because it is quite a common situation. (Tested on V 6.5)
Let’s assume you have a huge collection of items that needs to be segregated into sub-folders because of sheer volume. You may still want to have the URL to the articles accessible via a more direct link (which ignores the sub-directory structure). This post highlights one method of achieving this in the Sitecore .NET CMS.

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Customise EviBlog for sitecore

There is a nifty new blogging module for sitecore called EviBlog (now known as WeBlog) for sitecore, it can be found in the shared source library. The content of this post is relevant for anyone that wants to customise EviBlog to suit their needs. Edit: the WeBlog source has changed since the release of this post but the concepts are still very much relevant to the current implementation.

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