If you've upgraded from an older Optimizely CMS solution lately, you may have noticed a dialog popping up every time an editor pastes content from Word into the TinyMCE rich text editor: In CMS 11 this wasn't an issue — Word content was silently cleaned on paste.…
So you've lost the page tree in Optimizely CMS. The sidebar is empty, the tree is gone. You're staring at a mostly empty editor wondering what you did wrong. Don't panic — you didn't break anything. You just stumbled into one of the…
(Heads up - this is an April Fools joke) I think we've all been there. git blame reveals a familiar name. Your own. The commit message says "fix". The date says eight months ago. The code says something that, in retrospect, you cannot fully explain. Until…
The built in broken links report in Optimizely can be difficult for editors to work with, and broken links are often difficult to maintain. Broken links frustrate visitors and damage SEO. After waiting for ages for an option to have unpublished pages removed from the list, I've deceided…
After recently upgrading an Optimizely solution from CMS 11 to CMS 12, everything initially seemed to work fine. The site started without errors, and the editor interface looked normal. However, once development of new features resumed, it quickly became clear that something was wrong. Adding a property to a page…
Discover how Scandinavian letters in file names can break media in Optimizely CMS—and learn a simple code fix to automatically sanitize uploads for flawless performance.…
Allowing special characters such as ‘æ’, ‘ø’, and ‘å’ in your Optimizely solution is simple. Optimizely provides a helpful article on this topic here: https://support.optimizely.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005062883-Enable-special-characters-in-URL-Segment However, do not blindly follow the steps in that article, as this will lead to unexpected results with…
Running a multisite solution on localhost through Visual Studio is quite easy to set up. A small Visual Studio config file needs a small touch and everything is ready. The secret is to edit the applicationhost.config-file, which is found in the .vs-folder that Visual Studio creates in your solution:…
Working with Visual Studio running multiple solutions at the same time can get confusing. All windows look the same, and it takes time to navigate to the right window. The Solution Colors extension makes this easy! What is Solution Colors? Solution Colors is a tool that allows you to assign…
Optimizely CMS got a nice built-in scheduled job called 'Remove Abandoned BLOBs', that helps you with deleting old blobs that is no longer in use. Mostly, this job is problem free, but some solutions sometimes get an access rights bug - "Access to the path 'my/…