Web Content Management

Digizuite DAM for Episerver

Digizuite is a pretty serious DAM player in the enterprise market - and I have been lucky enough to be part of their DAM adventure in Episerver land. In this blog (and most likely several future posts) I will share some of the thoughts and approaches we have taken to make a good integration.

Digizuite CMS Optimizely (Episerver)Integrations Addon Development

November 27 2018

Design Pattern: Tag Pages instead of Categories

Episerver categories is one way to deal with taxonomy on a web site. But often I find that I prefer a simpler, more transparent approach of having Tag Pages replace them. Here's how.

C#Optimizely (Episerver)CMS Tips and Tricks

October 29 2018

CMS Audit Update - Visitor Groups included

Earlier this year Nicola Ayan released a nice little plugin that I instantly liked, the CMS Audit tool. It's a great way to get an easy overview over what is being used where in your CMS. In a talk about my favorite addons I showed it at Episerver Ascend Copenhagen and straight away got a question from the audience: Can we use this tool to see where visitor groups are being used? Well, now you can.

Tips and Tricks Addon Development Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

October 24 2018

Webcast: Addons In Real Life @ CodeArt

Last week I did a couple of talks at Episerver User Group meetings in Denmark about how I've tweaked my Episerver installation at codeart.dk in order to work as a great blogging platform. I also showcase a few of the addons I'm currently working on. Now I recorded the talk, so if you have a 23 minutes to spare, then grab a coffee and make some popcorn and have a look.

CMS Optimizely (Episerver)Tips and Tricks Tech Talk

October 17 2018

Admin Mode Plugin to Manage Content Type Suggestions

If you have a site with a lot of different content types, it can be a good idea to help Episervers Automatic Content Type suggestion feature along. Here is a basic Admin mode tool - in good old webforms (yes, I washed my hands after I made it) that will let administrators / and super-editors configure exactly which content types to suggest when.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)CMS Addon Development .NET Development

October 12 2018

Auto Tagging Using Search

You don't always have to go the full AI route to get AI like results. In this blog post I'll describe an approach I've used several times (and for multiple purposes) with pretty decent results. Instead of classification algorithms, deep learning or neural networks I'll just simply query my favorite search engine.

CMS Vision Demos & Prototypes Tips and Tricks Information Retrieval ElasticSearch AI .NET Development

October 7 2018

Content Providers and Flat Content

A classic challenge in many CMS - and also in Episerver - has always been what do you do with large amounts of non-hierarchical/flat content? There has been many workarounds along the way and I was just on my way to make yet another when I discovered a well hidden secret deep in the belly of Episervers UI: The Asset widget (that holds blocks and media items) does in fact have infinite scrolling - which in turn can support incredibly large flat structures!

Tips and Tricks Integrations Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

September 22 2018

Understanding Episerver CMS - How are images rendered

When using reusable content such as images, the actual HTML rendering of them can happen multiple places. But when is what used? And how can you customize it?

CMS Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

September 19 2018

Gist Content Provider

Always preferring coding over 'real work' I figured that it would be pretty neat if I could just drag and drop my gists on GitHub directly into my blog posts here in Episerver in order to embed them. Naturally, a content provider seemed like the right choice...

Integrations Addon Development .NET Development CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

September 10 2018