New Sitecore 6 blog module released

// November 7th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Sitecore

In the last couple of months I have been working on a new blog module for Sitecore 6.2. It started as a small module just for my own educational purpose but ended up as one of the largest modules I created. The module is a complete rewritten blog module, based upon the functionality of the old 5.3 version. The new version supports inline editing, fieldeditors, webcontrols for custom themes and Windows Live Writer integration. This release includes two sample blogs. One with a standard theme and one custom theme which shows you how to use the custom webcontrols.

List of features

• Windows Live Writer integration (MetaWeblog API)
• Full frontend (inline) editing
• Webedit ribbon (with fieldeditors)
• CSS based themes
• Custom themes possible (one demo included)
• Custom webcontrols (with inline editing)
• Comments
• Tagging and a tagcloud
• RSS Feeds

At this moment the module in still in betá, and I would like to hear your feedback. You can use the comments or just send me a email (mark at evident.nl). When you encounter problems, found a bug or have any other kind of feedback please let me know and I will try to reply as soon as possible.

You can find the installation package and sources on the Shared Source environment.

Embedding video in Sitecore items

// August 7th, 2009 // No Comments » // Custom field, Sitecore, User Interface

These days streaming video on the web is quite popular. In almost every project we do at Evident Interactive the customer wants to embed video in content items. Off course they can do that by copy-pasting the embedding code in a Sitecore field or in the rich-text editor. But that is not the most user-friendly method. I thought it would be nice if an end-user could just copy-paste the url of the page and let an custom control do the rest. So I created a custom field, webcontrol, some xsl extensions an a addition to the flashmanager. Let’s say that we want to embed this video from YouTube. I go to the content editor and paste the url in a field of the type “Video Embed”.

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Using profile with the Rich Text Editor

// November 5th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Sitecore

Regularly I see topics on the SDN5 forums where people ask if it is possible to use a custom Rich Text editor. Wll, yes it is. You can use so called profiles with the Rich Text editor. These profiles are stored in the Core database under /sitecore/system/Settings/Html Editor Profiles/. There are some default pre-configurated profile which you van duplicate and customize to your own needs.

To use these profile you need to set the source value of an rich text field in your template.

Sitecore 6 released

// July 1st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Sitecore

Yesterday the people at Sitecore released the new version of their CMS. Sitecore 6 (previously called “Crestone”) has lots of improvements for either the end user as for dsevelopers.

A few improvements are:

• Inline editing for editors
• .Net 2.0 Memebership support
• New and faster Content Editor
• New data types
• The new Page editor

and much, much more.

For a complete list the documentation team has released an “What’s New” document. You can find it on SDN5 here

More information involving enhancements can be find at the documentation are of SDN5.