Recently, I had to enable CDN for our Sitecore instances. After following the instructions available in Sitecore documentation, everything seemed to work fine. There was use case where we had to exclude PDF documents from the CDN route to keep the security for some of the documents in place. The suggested approach was to add a … Continue reading Adding a Processor to getMediaUrlOptions Pipeline
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How to quickly mitigate Log4J critical vulnerability?
There is a lot of discussion around the Log4J CVE in the community. If you haven't heard or read about it then below is the good read https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1001391 The Sitecore versions that got affected are:Sitecore XP 9.2Sitecore XP 9.3Sitecore XP 10.0Sitecore XP 10.1Sitecore XP 10.2 Versions not affected Sitecore XP 9.1 and earlier versions are … Continue reading How to quickly mitigate Log4J critical vulnerability?
How to add custom Event handler in Sitecore?
We had a requirement of pushing some Sitecore items to third-party applications once those are publish on the Live (Web database). We had to attach a custom event handler in the Publishing event. Now the handler needs to be added in both publish:end and publish:end:remote, the former works well on single instances and CM server … Continue reading How to add custom Event handler in Sitecore?
Sitecore Tips – Search and Replace
This blog is very simple tip but thought of sharing it. We had a rebranding of a word across our Media like (News, Events, Blogs, etc.) and it is impossible to go to each and every word manually and change it. The simplest solution was to write a Script in SPE and execute. Then I … Continue reading Sitecore Tips – Search and Replace
Excited & Humbled to be awarded Sitecore MVP 2021
Thank you for your continuous support in my Journey. I was just awarded Sitecore's highest recognition as a 2021 Sitecore MVP (Most Valuable Professionals)! Sitecore has recognized only 170 technology MVPs in the entire world and only 11 in all of India. In order to achieve this award we have to significantly contribute to the … Continue reading Excited & Humbled to be awarded Sitecore MVP 2021
Adding a custom route in Sitecore site
If we want to create a custom Sitecore route, for ex. if we want to read the user input and pass it to the controller method then we will require a custom route. Simplest example of this requirement is Search box. We will need to create a class file to add our route. You can … Continue reading Adding a custom route in Sitecore site
My Sitecore Journey in 2020
Hello Sitecorians! Introduction I am Rohan Kenkre. I am here to talk about my Sitecore journey so far. Don’t worry I am not going to bug you with the usual details. I will keep my introduction very simple; I am a husband to a beautiful woman (Vedanti) and I stay in Pune, India. Sitecore … Continue reading My Sitecore Journey in 2020
How to work on reducing page load time?
Once the website is ready, everyone will appreciate your efforts to develop it and at the same time you will see new requests coming in. What can be these new requests will be on? Enhancements? Anomalies? Improvements? Most probably it will be on improvements specially when your client is eyeing to implement SEO (Search Engine … Continue reading How to work on reducing page load time?
No duplicate item name allowed in latest Sitecore versions
If you guys have worked on Sitecore 7.x or 8.x then you will know that there is no restriction for creating item with same name at same level. So similarly I had no idea that it is restricted in the latest versions for Sitecore. Recently I was trying to install a package created from Sitecore … Continue reading No duplicate item name allowed in latest Sitecore versions
Sites node moved from Sitecore.config file in Sitecore 10
With every major version, we always see the configuration file updates. The major change I had seen was in Sitecore 7.2 to Sitecore 8.x and then in 9.x. I had expected the same in Sitecore 10 as well. I mostly go through Sitecore.config and ConnectionStrings.config first once Sitecore Vanilla instance of latest version is installed. … Continue reading Sites node moved from Sitecore.config file in Sitecore 10
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