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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By : Yogesh Patel
Book Image

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

Chapter 5. Making Content Management More Efficient

In this chapter, we will cover how to improve the accessibility of content management users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness and efficiency. You will learn the following recipes:

  • Using dictionary domains for multilingual sites on a multisite environment

  • Creating vanity URLs for marketing purposes using an alias item

  • Centralizing common content using a clone item

  • Using a wildcard item to integrate external content

  • Placing dynamic content in the Rich Text Editor by replacing tokens

  • Adding a custom tool to the Rich Text Editor to generate tokens

  • Dealing with user-generated content using an Item Web API

  • Storing external content using a custom cache