Quickly Create New Language Versions on your Sitecore CMS

10th Apr 2012 Przemysław Taront

This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 111123). On every website that supports multiple languages, there is this moment in the lifecycle where you have finished entering content in the primary language/ target market and are about to begin translating the content into other languages. And you go through this painful process: switch to a new [...]

Reset the placeholder’s layout in Sitecore

28th Feb 2012 Przemysław Taront

This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 111123). In my recent post Complex layouts in Sitecore using standard values hierarchy, I presented a solution of how to split layout definition across hierarchy of templates. Having this new approach I wanted to refactor my site and move some parts of the layout to Sitecore template definitions. First [...]

Complex layouts in Sitecore using standard values hierarchy

01st Feb 2012 Przemysław Taront

This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 111123). Sitecore 6.4.0 introduced an awesome feature called “layout deltas”. In a nutshell, changes made to the presentation of an item are now stored as “deltas”. In the rendering pipeline, information stored in the standard values for the template is automatically merged with the “delta” for the item. What [...]