After developing in Episerver and Optimizely for nearly 13 years, I recently stumbled upon a feature that has been a part of Optimizely CMS for ages, yet many developers seem to be unaware of its existence. It's the remarkable auto-suggestion functionality for string properties within the CMS. Typically, creating a…
Getting a lot of 404 errors after upgrading your Optimizely CMS solution past version 11.20.11? It might be fixed within seconds!…
Updating Optimizely Forms is not always problem free.This is not something that most solutions have a problem with, but for some projects the custom elements you have written for Optimizely.Forms will stop showing in your views. The reason for this is not always a bug in Optimizely.Forms,…
Optimizely CMS is still using TinyMCE for the rich text (XhtmlString) fields. By default, everything you write in these fields is being wrapped in
tags. These extra tags can be a pain, as they do not always fit with the document structure. You do not need to create a bad…In Optimizely's cloud hosting service DXP, Optimizely has for a long time offered to generate certificates for the sites it hosts, giving us the secure https URLs with a reassuring padlock next to it. Until today that service has come with the limitation that they could not generate certificates for…
Content Manager is a lightweight editing UI [https://world.episerver.com/blogs/bartosz-sekula/dates/2020/4/content-manager---lightweight-editing-ui/] for Optimizely Content Cloud (formerly known as Episerver CMS), that provides an easy interface for working with structureless content. The initial version was released in April 2020, almost two years ago. I really…
After the rebranding from Episerver to Optimizely, the developer targeted information are not as easily available as before.…
By default, all pages in your Optimizely page tree look the same. With custom icons, you can add your personal touch, and make it easier to visually separate the different types of pages.…
Lat lasting (eller «lazy loading» på godt norsk) av bilder er en teknikk for å øke ytelsen ved å utsette lasting av bilder til det er strengt nødvendig. Lenge var dette en øvelse som krevde komplisert kode eller bruk av biblioteker, men nå har de fleste nettleserne innebygget støtte.…
Optimizely Content Manager is a lightweight editing UI that aims to make publishing content easier, as it takes away some of the complexity. I like the idea, but here are two main issues left before Content Manager could be used in a production environment.…