As part of the EPiServer Ascend event, EPiServer showcased EPiServer Foundation. In this post I am going to explain what it is, what can you use it for, what are some of the pros and cons, and how to install it. So, lets begin !!!! What it is? EPiServer Foundation is an accelerator created by... Continue Reading →

During the EPiServer Ascend event I attended a lab called external content replication which I though was quite interesting, you can find the instructions here. The lab showed us how to treat external content, integrate it in EPiServer using a job, save it outside of the root site and create these content types in a different tab of the assets... Continue Reading →

I think this is a common issue when you create a job in EPiServer, you try to get the start page from the code and unfortunately the ContentReference.StartPage does not have the correct nor valid reference set in the variable. This post is about two possible solutions that you can use to solve this problem.... Continue Reading →

While researching about how to intercept the download of a media file we found several posts, like this one, that mentioned the use of DownloadMediaRouter.DownloadSegment to get the file name and send it as part of the content disposition header of the response. Unfortunately, in our project it did not work as expected in all... Continue Reading →

While researching about how to get all blocks of an specific type we found that the only available solution was to use the ContentModelUsage API . However, if some of the blocks are not referenced in a page this API will not be useful. Moreover, if a block is referenced 10.000 times in the CMS... Continue Reading →

While working in a project for a client, we had to develop a media importer process which had to save several Pdfs and Excel files to the CMS. The files were inside a zip file in conjunction with a json configuration file which details the properties of the files. We could have used the media... Continue Reading →

When you are working with EPiServer in a DXC environment sometimes you can have issues with CloudFlare and its aggressive cache. This can cause problems with css and js files because the client will not receive the latest version of the files unless they clean their cache in the browser. So for this post, we... Continue Reading →

Even though this is not completely related to EPiServer, sometimes we need to give our clients the option to disable tracking them when for instance a user does not approve a GDPR modal. In this post, we are going to disable google tag manager which is set in a field in the home page and... Continue Reading →

I have been inspired by some interesting post about how to handle large amounts of pages in EPiServer such as this one, this other one, and last but not the least this one. All of them point to use a more structured site, sometimes using categories and more often using the current date as part... Continue Reading →