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Optimizely is an industry leader in web content management. Previously known as EPiServer and filling the Content Management System space, Optimizely has extended its offerings to cover Commerce, Web Experimentation, Marketing Campaign Management and AI driven personalisation.
As an Optimizely Most Valuable Professional, I contribute to the development community by providing solutions, writing blogs and creating two packages: Stott Robots Handler and Stott Security.
Creating an Optimizely Addon - Best Practices
Published: 24th October 2024
Best practices for creating an Optimizely CMS AddOn.
Read more Development OptimizelyCreating an Optimizely Addon - Packaging for NuGet
Published: 16th September 2024
How to package your AddOn to be distributed by Optimizely's NuGet feed.
Read more Development OptimizelyCreating an Optimizely CMS Addon - Adding an Editor Interface Gadget
Published: 30th August 2024
How to create an editor interface gadget within Optimizely CMS PAAS Core.
Read more Development OptimizelyCreating an Optimizely AddOn - Getting Started
Published: 28th August 2024
How to create an AddOn with it's own UI within Optimizely CMS PAAS Core.
Read more Development OptimizelyStott Security Version 2 So Far
Published: 17th May 2024
A summary of all new functionality and changes that have been introduced to the Stott Security module so far.
Read more Development Optimizely Stott SecurityWorking Programmatically With List Block Properties
Published: 23rd November 2023
Working with programmatic generation of IList
Adding CORS Management to Optimizely CMS 12
Published: 8th October 2023
Adding Cross-origin Resource Sharing response headers to the Stott Security Add-on for Optimizely CMS 12.
Read more Development OptimizelyAdding Block Specific JavaScript and CSS to the body and head of the page
Published: 2nd October 2023
Using the ClientResource management within Optimizely CMS to render JavaScript and CSS resources correctly within the rendered HTML document.
Read more Development OptimizelyExtending Geta Optimizely Sitemaps to Include Image Sitemaps
Published: 31st July 2023
Enhancing Geta Optimizely Sitemaps to include Images by overriding the SitemapXmlGenerator.
Read more Development OptimizelyMaking Content Recommendations Easy For Content Editors
Published: 7th July 2023
Making Content Recommendations easy and consistent for content editors using a custom block.
Read more Optimizely DevelopmentBuild it Once (A proposal for CMS 12 builds)
Published: 8th March 2023
A proposition for using Razor Class Libraries and componentising Optimizely CMS 12 builds to reduce long term effort and rebuilding.
Read more Development OptimizelyOpticon London 2022
Published: 9th November 2022
Information learned at the Opticon London 2022 event hosted by Optimizely.
Read more Development Optimizely404 Error on Static Assets Within an Optimizely Plugin
Published: 22nd September 2022
Resolving 404 issues on static files in razor class libraries using the _content/foo.bar/scripts.js path.
Read more Development OptimizelyUnit Testing Optimizely CMS 12 Dynamic Data Store - Part 2
Published: 20th May 2022
Introducing a second way to mock and unit test with the Dynamic Data Store in Optimizely CMS 12.
Read more Development OptimizelyUnit Testing Optimizely CMS 12 Dynamic Data Store - Part 1
Published: 19th May 2022
Optimizely CMS 12 provides a Dynamic Data Store for custom storing of data, but how do we unit test a repository using the Dynamic Data Store?
Read more Development OptimizelyA Robots.Txt Handler for Optimizely CMS 12
Published: 15th December 2021
A new robots.txt handler that has been built for use with Optimizely CMS 12.
Read more Development OptimizelyOptimizely Search Wildcard Queries and Best Bets
Published: 15th November 2021
Implementing Wild Card search in Optimizely CMS 11 Search and Navigation.
Read more Development OptimizelySetting Up Search & Navigation in .NET 5.0
Published: 1st October 2021
A brief guide to setting up Optimizely Search and Navigation in the .NET 5.0 world.
Read more Optimizely DevelopmentCustom Admin Pages in Optimizely 12
Published: 31st August 2021
In an Optimizely 12 .NET 5.0 world, the GuiPlugIn attribute has been removed, Here I describe how to reproduce this functionality with Menu Providers.
Read more Development OptimizelyUnit Testing Optimizely CMS 11
Published: 29th September 2018
A solution for Unit Testing Custom Criterion for visitor groups in Optimizely CMS 11.
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