IÂ did a bit of playing around recently with Sitecore’s SiteProvider infrastructure. Â Our client wanted to be able to create new websites without needing a developer to set it up for them. Â The nuts and bolts of sharing templates and renderings is already well documented, so I’m not going to go into that. Â I am going to write a bit about how a custom SiteProvider can be created to avoid the need for developers to add a new <site> entry in the configuration. Continue reading Sitecore dynamic site provider
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Inheriting website attributes and trimming your Sitecore configuration
Today I had the dubious pleasure of seeing a Sitecore solution containing several hundred microsites.  I spent a little while silently fuming at the developers for not using the inherits attribute, until it occurred to me that this attribute isn’t really documented anywhere.  I’m not going to attempt to do so fully; I’ll leave that job (along with the many other undocumented attributes) to the Sitecore documentation team.  I will provide a bit of detail on it, though, along with another option that would be a good alternative to the mass of duplicated configuration that I saw. Continue reading Inheriting website attributes and trimming your Sitecore configuration