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Banner image for How to Add Custom Buttons to the Content Editor Ribbon article

I was recently asked to provide a way for a User to execute a scheduled task immediately instead of waiting for the next scheduled run. Adding a button inside the Content Editor was a useful way to accomplish this, and since I found a few misleading guides online I thought I'd post my own, which is hopefully a lot clearer.

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Banner image for Using Xconnect Without Certificates When You Really Want to Live on the Edge! article

Sometimes you don't have time to deal with problems and you've just gotta have a running instance of Sitecore. Today we had some certificate issues with xConnect that appeared out of nowhere, so after some time troubleshooting, I decided to remove the requirement, since we've already locked down network access to it. Temporary and non-Production, and in other words, nail meet hammer. 

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Banner image for The Complete Guide to Installing Habitat Home Corporate on Sitecore 9.2 article

Habitat is a great demo instance that has been used to showcase what Sitecore can do. I'm grateful for this tool since we can spin up a copy quickly to use during project initialization phases where people new to Sitecore can quickly get familiar with it. Installation can be tricky, so I'll cover the steps and some hiccups I've come across.

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Banner image for Handling Index Sitecore_Marketingdefinitions_Web Was Not Found Errors in Sitecore 9+ article

Since the release of Sitecore 9+ we're seeing a lot of people posting in forums cases where they see errors related to indexes not found. Correcting this Sitecore startup issue was simple to fix once I figured out what's going on, and it's nothing related to indexes at all! 

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Banner image for Here Comes the Active Personalized Experiences List in Sitecore 9.2 article

Sitecore Personalization is one of the most popular features with our clients, so seeing advancement with the tools available to them is always good news. The Active Personalized Experiences dashboard is another welcome addition in Sitecore 9.2, which provides a new ability to see all Personalization on the entire site. 

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