Blog posts by Henning Sjørbotten2026-03-17T13:47:47.0000000Zhttps://world.optimizely.com/blogs/henning-sjorbotten/ Optimizely World Building a Better Link Validation Report in Optimizely CMS 12Broken links frustrate visitors and damage SEO. I have made a custom broken links report, that makes it easier to work broken links than the built-in one.2026-03-17T13:47:47.0000000ZBlog post Optimizely CMS 12 behaving strangely after upgrading from CMS 11After upgrading from Optimizely CMS 11 to CMS 12, content type changes stopped working due to an assembly version mismatch. This post explains the cause and the simple fix.2026-02-10T16:20:57.0000000ZBlog post Avoid Scandinavian Letters in File Names in Optimizely CMSDiscover how Scandinavian letters in file names can break media in Optimizely CMS—and learn a simple code fix to automatically sanitize uploads for flawless performance.2025-06-19T10:51:44.0000000ZBlog post How to Properly Enable Special Characters like 'æ', 'ø' and 'å' in Your Optimizely SolutionAllowing special characters such as ‘æ’, ‘ø’, and ‘å’ in your Optimizely solution is simple. Just dont follow the article from Optimizely blindly.2025-01-16T10:47:02.0000000ZBlog post Running a multisite solution on localhost in Visual StudioRunning a multisite solution on localhost through Visual Studio is quite easy to set up. A small Visual Studio config file needs a small touch and everything is ready.2024-08-16T12:31:28.0000000ZBlog post How to fix scheduled job 'Remove Abandoned BLOBs' if it keeps failingOptimizely inlcudes a job named 'Remove Abandoned BLOBs'. This post will help you fix it if it's no longer working.2023-09-26T11:08:35.0000000ZBlog post Auto-suggestions for properties in Optimizely CMSOptimizely contains a great built-in auto suggestion functionality for string properties. Here is how you use it.2023-04-11T09:14:21.0000000ZBlog post 404 on all subpages after upgrading Optimizely CMS to 11 latest?Getting a lot of 404 errors after upgrading your Optimizely CMS solution past version 11.20.11? It might be fixed within seconds!2022-09-16T05:24:00.0000000ZBlog post How to make your custom form elements work after upgrading Optimizely.Forms<figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://blog.novacare.no/content/images/2022/09/updatingforms-1.png" class="kg-image" alt loading="lazy" width="480" height="325" /><figcaption>Updating Optimizely Forms is not always problem free.</figcaption></figure><p>This is not something that most solutions have a problem with, but for some projects the custom elements you have written for Optimizely.Forms will stop showing in your views.</p><p>The reason for this is not always a bug in Optimizely.Forms,</p>2022-09-12T06:52:37.0000000ZBlog post How to make the XhtmlString <p> tag go awayTake control over your XhtmlString fields in Optimizely CMS, this is how you can remove the <p> tag that surrounds your input. </p>2022-06-17T08:39:07.0000000ZBlog post How to make the XhtmlString <p> tag go awayTake control over your XhtmlString fields in Optimizely CMS, this is how you can remove the <p> tag that surrounds your input. </p>2022-06-17T08:39:07.0000000ZBlog post Creating Episerver Admin plugins using MVCIt's long past due to forget your webforms skills. Here is a simple recipe for how to make Episerver admin tools in MVC.2020-09-14T09:22:20.0000000ZBlog post Episerver Page Tree SymbolsEpiserver page tree gives you as an editor a lot of information, just by looking at the different symbols on the different pages. But what do they mean? Here's a quick overview of the different symbols you could encounter..2020-05-08T09:23:11.0000000ZBlog post A forgotten gem in Episerver CMS: Auto-translateMultilingual site in Episerver? Episerver and Azure can help you with your translations, and it doesn`t need to cost anything.2019-11-25T09:27:11.0000000ZBlog post How to restrict number of items in ContentArea based on item typeNeed to take more control over your ContentAreas? This ValidationAttribute will help you limit the usage of specific types inside the ContentArea.2019-06-28T08:23:00.0000000ZBlog post