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Some might have missed that Razor Pages can be used with an Optimizely CMS app so I thought I'd explore some options and find a streamlined setup that works with Visual Studio tooling.

I stumbled over the very interesting tool imgproxy and decided to try it out to optimize images on the fly from and behind an Optimizely CMS app.

It's good practice these days to add a Content Security Policy and couple it with the consent dialog. Both should include all third parties a site might have embedded.

My experiences from hosting an Optimizely CMS site on Azure and moving to a generated static site on Netlify.

The versions published on Optimizely's NuGet now has a version 2.0.2 that is compatible with .NET 6.0 and CMS 12.4.2 or newer.

I've mashed up my open source project Record Collector with the great Webperf Core test routine.

Quite often I encounter APIs that have a Swagger UI but lacking much of the rest (hehe) of the Swagger tooling support.

Recently spent some time investigating massive database dependency counts on an Epi CMS site that was using Geta Tags.

Maybe you listened in to the Cloud talk on Monday of the Episerver World Community Week and wondered what I was talking about?

It's completely normal to feel not so good when thinking about Entity Framework migrations or Episerver's Dynamic Data Store.

The two sessions are on Auth0 and Episerver .NET Core & Content Delivery API. We still have a few seats available. Welcome to our new office at Magnus Ladulåsgatan 3!

I just put a Webpack project with Tailwind config and an Alloy-ready starter view with a setup mimicking Episerver's design up on Github.

Having a site wide form policy consent text and checkbox available might be useful when editors start using Episerver Forms.

I've really taken a liking to Tailwind CSS and to help spread the word I did a quick lab of using it on the Alloy startpage.

Episerver Content Delivery API 2.x allows us to customize the authorization flow. Here's an example of how you can get and validate an access token using an external service and avoid all that similar stuff that bloated your Epi app when using 1.x.

SendGrid has marked Substitutions as Legacy and switched to Handlebars for the transactional templates.

IdentityServer4 is now available for and aligned with ASP.NET Core 2.0 - with some breaking changes. They've also added a combined quickstart that makes it's a lot faster to accomplish what I did earlier in my proof-of-concept post using the 1.x version.

I've updated the Krompaco.SendGridForEpi add-on with support for CMS 11 and made it dependent on the latest SendGrid package.

The site in question has a subscription service where a user can subscribe and get a notification e-mail or alert inside the site when a page is published in the subscribed pagebranch. A challenge was how to only send once; we tried to solve it outside of our subscription system.

Open sourced packages that helps you sending mail from Episerver using SendGrid's API and transactional templates.

Federated Security is really nice and you should recommend it everywhere. The new IdentityServer4 comes as a .NET Core package and is an interesting option since it, like earlier versions, is open source and free.

It's wise to update structuremap-signed to the version 3.1.9.463 released October 18, 2016.

Federated Security is what we all want to use for our Episerver sites right? In such a setup, having Auth0 as the identity platform has for sure put a big smile on my face.

As you probably know Application Insights is Azure's option for application monitoring and visitor tracking. It's not New Relic APM/Browser and it's not Google Analytics but it's a lot of both. I've been running the preview on this blog for a while now and here's some reporting.

I installed Swashbuckle in my Episerver site that of course also uses Find.

An often discussed topic is how to set up a project's view models, content types and layout.

Maybe you are using the Web Essentials Visual Studio extension or you get your minified CSS and JS files from a Grunt task or similar. Here's a concept of how to serve them on version unique URLs without using querystrings or changing filenames.

I've published an early version of a thing I put together called Cloud Accelerator on GitHub.

The Enhanced Ecommerce Features in Google Analytics are pretty cool. So are the features of Google Tag Manager.

Trying to install a new Alloy MVC Site in one of my machine's Visual Studio 2013 threw error alerts.

Custom forms is a common thing to have in a site's templates.

Many have been looking forward to the built-in support for Federated Security in Episerver CMS which is currently Beta released. In a recent case there was no time to wait and I came up with a workaround that could be used in older Epi versions as well.

Got tasked with determining and showing start page language based on visitor's IP on a Episerver 7.13 Web Forms site.

A quick post on how to write a valid sitemap.xml file to disk. I used this approach in a scheduled job for Episerver.

Saw this post on Episerver World about routing and friendly URLs and in that case external data. I had done something similar so I simplified and extracted into an Alloy project.

A client needed the editors to be able to select one category from a SELECT box. I knew there were some built-in controls to make things like this easy in Epi CMS 7.

I was given the task to import pages from Episerver 4.6 to a new Episerver 7 site. Access was limited and I had no possibility to modify the code or configuration of the 4.6 project. I went for a solution where an export package was used.

I recently posted a reply about reducing database size at Episerver World and thought I'd assemble some queries that come in handy when analyzing a database gone huge.

For a number of reasons it's widely recommended to use all lowercase URL's inside a web site. Unfortunately Episerver out of the box uses the same casing as the entered PageName (unless you modify the URL manually).

A complete example of how to manage global TinyMCE settings for your XHTML-string properties.

Process requests simultaneously in parallel and gain some speed.

CMS 6 R2 has been around for a while and I have completed a bunch of upgrades. There are a lot of issues that might or might not affect the site you are upgrading.

Maybe I have poor Googling skills but I couldn't find a simple user picker property anywhere. We had some examples at work but they involved a custom user control and too much JavaScript.

Tried to reach the search settings admin view but didn't get access. Snooping around led me to a new Episerver 6 group name setting.

You added some property settings to your custom property and created a couple of global settings for the editor to choose from. Then you find out you want to get hold of the setting values in code. Here's how you fetch them.

I got the task to replace the TinyMCE table plugin with a stripped down version optimized by a colleague.

We decided to build a poll function using a Question page type and an Option page type to put below. For each option we thought the new Dynamic Data Store related to an Episerver page, the Page Object Manager, would be a neat thing to use as storage for the votes.

The default config options set by CreateDefaultInitOptions() aren't really what you need to help editors create correctly marked up content. Luckily the people at Episerver have a way to tweak 'em.

I had a Episerver CMS 5 R2 project where there was a lot of templates lifted in from an older solution. It was very querystring intensive so I needed to get away from specifying each querystring-parameter in the httpCacheVaryByParams setting and still enjoy public caching.

After failing duplicating the ParallelApproval Workflow I looked into creating a task by code in the project instead. Didn't find much documentation online so here's my initial Proof of Concept to fill the gap.