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Ever wondered what happens when you mix  AI ,  creativity , and a dash of competitive spirit? Welcome to the  Opal Hackathon 2025 —where we rolled up our sleeves and built something game-changing. So, what’s Opal anyway? Think of Opal as your ...

Graham Carr

The Problem I was working with a CMS 11 client who wanted to introduce two new third party content sources. These would be synchronized into new specific page types that they would then surface alongside content written directly within the CMS on...

Mark Stott

First released in 2021, the SQL Studio addon for Optimizely CMS lets you query your database directly from the edit UI. The latest update adds support for GPT-5, a new UI for managing saved queries, and an audit log

Tomas Hensrud Gulla

If you’ve passed an Optimizely Academy certification, you’ll now see something new beside your name on World —  fresh certification icons are live starting today!  Over the past few months, Academy has launched several new exams, but the...

Satata Satez

In the previous post , I showed how Opalytics lets you ask human questions and get analytics answers. This time we’re going full dev-mode: OAuth tokens, discovery docs, tool calling—and a small detour where I didn’t use the official SDK and built ...

Allan Thraen

Optimizely CMS 12 is built around a powerful and flexible content model. By understanding the core base classes and interfaces, developers can build scalable solutions, improve maintainability, and fully leverage the CMS’s extensibility. In this...

Pär Wissmark

We want to inform you of an important update to our email delivery partner,  Twilio SendGrid .   What’s changing? Starting September 15, 2025 , Twilio (including SendGrid) will no longer support communications to  Cuba  or  Syria . This change is...

Anna Pleshakova

My hackathon project for Optimizely OMVPs: plugging Piwik PRO into Opal, so you can just ask questions instead of fiddling with filters.

Allan Thraen