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Banner image for Xdb SQL Injections Attempts Can't Do Any Harm, but They'll Still Fill Up Your Databases With Useless Records article

During routine maintenance I saw our xDB was busy, having received a couple hundred thousand new contacts in a short amount of time. Having gone through an exercise of updating the excludedUserAgents configuration, I was curious to see what I might have missed. Looking at the User Agents of the new traffic revealed something alarming, but also presented the opportunity for my next module.

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Banner image for A Technical Tour of the Sitecore Auto Dictionary Module article

In the last article I introduced the Sitecore Auto Dictionary Module, explaining the benefits of using it over the out of the box Dictionary. Today I'll talk to those who are interested in the technical approach to this feature, covering the configuration and use of pipelines it employs.

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I'm excited to release this module, because it has the power to save your team a great deal of development time. By using this in our last Sitecore project I saw a reduction in 220 hours of overall effort, which besides the cost savings incentive, gave us a big win by making things easier for the developers and content team. Introducing, the Sitecore Auto Dictionary!

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Banner image for The Publish Page URL Module for Sitecore Now Offers Media Library Support! article

About a year ago I released the Published Page URL module, which shows authors the actual public URL for pages - something that Sitecore doesn't do. Well, now it supports media library items, allowing you to get the final URL for PDFs, Documents, etc. in multisite, multilingual environments.

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Banner image for Who Published That? When? Use My Publish History Module to Always Be In the Know! article

One of our clients asked me last week if I could find out when a specific page was published. This action gets recorded into the logs so you can always check there, but it's only retained for a few days. My Publish History module stores a permanent record on each item for when something was published, and by who.

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