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We're excited to officially welcome the latest winter cohort of Optimizely Most Valuable Professionals (OMVPs) - a group of passionate tech evangelist, strategists, marketers, and developers who've made a real impact within the Optimizely Community. The OMVP program exists to recognize individuals who consistently go above and beyond to share...

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Optimizely CMS 12 provides a Utility function to retrieve Content Reference from a Guid by ussing the below static method. var contentReference = PermanentLinkUtility.FindContentReference(new Guid("9812C961-4A51-4C8C-9580-0DED7764C1B2"));

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