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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By : Yogesh Patel
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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By: Yogesh Patel

Overview of this book

This book will get you started on building rich websites, and customizing user interfaces by creating content management applications quickly. It will give you an insight into web designs and how to customize the Sitecore architecture as per your website's requirements using best practices. Packed with over 70 recipes to help you achieve and solve real-world common tasks, requirements, and the problems of content management, content delivery, and publishing instance environments. It also presents recipes on Sitecore’s backend processes of customizing pipelines, creating custom event handler and media handler, setting hooks and more. Other topics covered include creating a workflow action, publishing sublayouts and media files, securing your environment by customizing user profiles and access rights, boosting search capabilities, optimising performance, scalability and high-availability of Sitecore instances and much more. By the end of this book, you will have be able to add virtually limitless features to your websites by developing and deploying Sitecore efficiently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


In the previous chapter, you learned how to build pages with different presentation components, but presentation components are useful beyond just building pages. As a developer, you should provide an easier, error-free, and smart user interface to content authors to save time and improve accuracy by extending Sitecore presentation components.

This chapter will show you a number of tricks that will open up a whole new world of possibilities to extend Sitecore presentation components. Some recipes here will explain how we can reuse existing components with minor modifications to fulfil different requirements. Some recipes will explain working with multidevice and multilingual websites. This chapter also enlightens out-of-the-box features to serve content from external systems to Sitecore sites and vice versa. In this chapter, you will learn such presentation components extensions along with improving the performance of sites.