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Optimizely CMS 12 can finally convert pages!

Published 02 Jun 2022
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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Optimizely CMS 12 can finally convert pages from one page type to another! Great! But what about blocks and media...?…

Get your Optimizely Content Cloud developer certification for free!

Published 17 Mar 2022
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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The Optimizely Content Cloud (previously Episerver CMS) developer certification is only valid for two years, and the renewal costs €260 (2780 NOK). Peanuts, maybe - but you could get it for free! Currently Optimizely certified If you are currently certified, you could apply for the Optimizely Subject Matter Expert (SME)…

Optimizely Content Delivery API - getting started smoothly!

Published 10 Mar 2022
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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The Optimizely Content Delivery API [https://world.optimizely.com/documentation/developer-guides/content-delivery-api/] adds headless capabilities to your traditional Optimizely Content Cloud CMS, making it a hybrid CMS. The best of both worlds, you might say. The documentation [https://world.optimizely.com/documentation/developer-guides/content-delivery-api/] is quite good, so I just…

Optimizely can now generate certificates for root domains in DXP

Published 16 Feb 2022
by Bjarte Aune Olsen

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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…

Optimizely Content Manager – still not production-ready

Published 01 Feb 2022
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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Content Manager is a 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 like the idea, and installed Content Manager on my personal…

Custom icons in the Optimizely/Episerver CMS page tree

Published 04 Nov 2021
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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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.…

Optimizely Content Cloud (CMS) and updates to the database schema

Published 05 Oct 2021
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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The Optimizely (formerly Episerver) products are continuously improved and weekly updates provide bug fixes, security updates, performance improvements, and occasional new features. Sometimes the database schema remains unchanged when you update the product, sometimes it does not. When Optimizely makes changes to the database schema, those changes are incorporated into…

Episerver/Optimizely Scheduled jobs - always add a GUID!

Published 20 Sep 2021
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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A scheduled job is Episerver's/Optimizely's way of running some piece of code at a configurable interval.…

Lazy loading images in Episerver/Optimizely xhtml string properties

Published 27 Aug 2021
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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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.…

Content Manager, the greatest thing since sliced bread?

Published 14 Jun 2021
by Tomas Hensrud Gulla

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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.…

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