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Last month, I had shared a post on Optimizely Data Platform (ODP) - A No-Code/Low-Code solution for managing data .  This week, for EMEA's Happy Hour session , Greg ( Associate Vice President of Product Management at Optimizely ) will be joining u...

Patrick Lam

It's not uncommon to nest blocks in Optimizely to create more controlled and complex layouts on pages. It's also sometimes necessary to provide additional data to the blocks you render. When using the PropertyFor helper this is done by specifying ...

Daved

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and set up Optimizely CMS 12. This guide will list all the steps required to install the CMS and configure your PC so that you can start building cool websites. The thing that makes me really happy...

Jon Jones

Optimizely uses DisplayTemplates to provide a way to render different partials for data types. DisplayTemplates are native to ASP.Net MVC, though, and Optimizely builds upon them, for instance, by specifying a Tag. An example of this is the...

Daved

In Gartner's most recent survey of marketing technology leaders, they say, "Marketing leaders report they still utilize only 58% of their martech stack's full breadth of capabilities — a level that has remained flat since 2019." Marketers are ofte...

Patrick Lam

ContentReference properties provide a way to select a single item in Optimizely CMS when you don't need the featureset a ContentArea provides. However, rendering an item with a ContentReference is a bit different. I explored this a bit in my artic...

Daved

Say hello to PictureRenderer.Optimizely! The html helper that makes it super simple to render HTML Picture elements in your Optimizely CMS 12 solution. Images are automatically cropped and resized, and the browser will always select the most optim...

Erik Henningson

A ContentReference property allows you to select a single ContentData object for reference. By default, when you render these property types with the PropertyFor helper, it renders as a link for a page, or displays the name of a block. This is...

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