A common requirement for CMS implementations includes the ability to embed third party content into a website as if it formed part of the website itself. Sometimes this takes the form of a full page embed like a campaign page and in other cases th...

The Requirement One of our Optimizely CMS 12 clients has a media heavy site and part of our SEO brief was to include an Image XML Sitemap to improve visibility of media to search engines such as google.  For all of our CMS 12 builds, we like to us...

The Problem One of our clients had purchased the Content Recommendations module for use within their newly build CMS 12 corporate site.  Our challenge was that the main content team lacked development expertese and would outsource functionality li...

Introduction The following is based on a 30 minute presentation performed by myself at Optimizely North in Manchester on the 1st March 2023.  Some of this content is based on question and answer sections performed on the day as well as observing...

Background With the move to CMS 12 and .NET 5/6, developers are now able to build Plugins and Extensions using Razor Class Libraries (RCL).  These are a fantastic option as it allows you to bundle up any client side scripts, styles and razor files...