Why and how to hide Publish Site buttons in Sitecore?

16th Oct 2012 Marek Musielak

Have you ever experienced what can happen when one of your Sitecore users published the entire site accidentally instead of publishing only one chosen item? This can cause huge problems if there are some items located in a content tree that should not be published yet (or at all), or if the number of items [...]

Sitecore serves media items even with incorrect extensions

06th Aug 2012 Marek Musielak

This post is based on Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 111230). While trying to figure out how Sitecore delivers a media item stream, I noticed that irrespective of the extension you use for a media item, Sitecore will return the media item anyway. So, if you have a logo image in jpeg format and if you type [...]

Architectures for Adaptive Content

19th Apr 2012 Cleve Gibbon

Last night a bunch of content strategists met up at the Adobe offices in London to discuss adaptive content.  A big thank you goes to Mike Quinn and Christie Fidura for hosting, organising and presenting at the event. Adaptive content: What you need to know to create intelligent, flexible, format-free content The idea of adaptive [...]

SharePoint as a Web Content Management System

19th Sep 2011 Andrzej Puciłowski

“I need a publishing platform. Could I just use SharePoint or will I need some other CMS?” If you were just asked the above question, I agree that it is fair to say that SharePoint is NOT a CMS… but it actually does not mean that Sharepoint cannot be used to manage and publish Web [...]