Tips and Tricks

Make some asset types download automatically in Optimizely CMS 12 using the Digizuite integration

Here is just a quick tip for how you can do custom blob http handling when using the Digizuite integration to Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12.

C#Tips and Tricks Digizuite Optimizely (Episerver)

March 2 2023

WebLoadBreaker - Browser based web load testing tool

WebLoadBreaker is a new, open source, browser based tool to help you do quick and easy load tests.

Vision Demos & Prototypes Life as a Coder Tips and Tricks Website Improvements Frontend Development CMS

January 24 2023

Automatically have Optimizely Content created in the correct place

A classic problem is that you want better structure and governance in for example your blocks. Maybe you have a policy to have all Banners or FAQ items in a specific folder so they can easily be found and re-used across the site, but way too often editors take the 'easy' approach and use the "Create a New Block" option in a content area - which by default places the block in the "For this page" folder, rendering re-use impossible. Here is a simple solution to that.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

December 30 2022

Property Dependency in Optimizely (Episerver) CMS 12

Sometimes you want to hide some properties in your CMS depending on the value of other properties. There are multiple ways to do this, but here is a rather simple approach that doesn't require advanced dojo skills.

C#Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

November 2 2022

Customizing Property Lists in Optimizely CMS

Generic property lists is a cool editorial feature that has gained a lot of popularity - in spite of still being unsupported (officially). But if you dig a bit deeper you can actually customize the editor experience even more...

Tips and Tricks C#Website Improvements Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

October 2 2022

Preview multiple Visitor Groups directly while browsing your Optimizely site

Visitor groups are great - it's an easy way to add personalization towards market segments to your site. But it does come with it's own set of challenges if used intensively. For example it can be hard to predict how any given page will look for visitors with a specific combination of visitor groups - and viewing it in a proper way often requires more than what you see in the quick preview mode. Here's a bit of code that will help you out.

Tips and Tricks C#Personalization Optimizely (Episerver)

September 26 2022

Content Report Generator v.2.

When you are about to migrate a site from CMS 11 to CMS 12, it's not unusual to want to do some rewriting and re-implementation to clean up the architecture as part of the project. When you do that (and in many other cases) it can be incredibly helpful to have a handy overview of your content, it's usage and your visitor groups and their usage. Here is an easy way to get that.

Vision Demos & Prototypes Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)Addon Development

June 3 2022

Optimizely CMS: List content recursively on a page - and list the visitor groups used

Quite often a lot of the content on pages in Optimizely Content cloud (aka Episerver CMS) is structured in blocks placed in content areas. And often even blocks in blocks. Sometimes it's needed to quickly get a list of all the content items on a page - and sometimes you might also be interested in which visitor groups are used. Here is a couple of extension methods to help you with that.

Optimizely (Episerver)C#.NET Development Tips and Tricks

June 1 2022

Self service with Fluid Templating for editors in Optimizely CMS

A classic need in many websites - especially self-service sites - is a placeholder mechanism, so editors can use placeholders in their text to be replaced with user specific data. Recently, working with a client, we ran into this problem and tried out a new approach to empower the content creators to solve this themselves.