Sitecore Fundamentals

02Jun, 2023

Understanding 100% Database Usage Caused by Your Sitecore GenericProcessingPool Table

While managing an instance of Sitecore I saw a bot got past the excludedUserAgents configuration, which means its traffic is recorded and we don't want that. Flushing the data out is simple with the Analytics Database Manager, but there are cases where there's transient data queued for processing in the GenericProcessingPool table, and it can be a problem.

09May, 2023

Sitecore Bucketed URLs Are a Thing of the Past, With the Custom URL Resolver

In my last post, I shared a way to hide bucketed folders from Sitecore URLs to make them more SEO friendly. So how do we find an item if part of the standard URL is missing? In this post I'll show you how with the custom URL resolver.

03May, 2023

Sitecore Bucketed URLs Are a Thing of the Past, With the Custom Link Provider

If you've ever seen a bucketed URL, you'd know it. Dates are made to be part of the URL, which allows for a larger number of children under a single parent, when there's usually a limit of 100. This is common in areas like blog postings, press releases, etc. But did you know the date folders can be optional? In this first part of a two-part series, I'll show you how.

15Mar, 2023

Releasing an Item on a Specific Schedule

I was recently asked about setting up a campaign in Sitecore and having it go live at a specific time. It's not overly obvious in the documentation since you need to combine versioning and publish restrictions, so we'll go over it here.