Engineering notes

Specific Sitecore and Umbraco problems, the code that solved them, and the part that still does not work. Written by the people who did the work.

23 articles

April 2025: the Sitecore Stream install guide came from Blogspot
Sitecore

April 2025: the Sitecore Stream install guide came from Blogspot

Nothing from sitecore.com in the month's harvest. What did land: a community install guide for Sitecore Stream, part four of an XP 10.4 to XM Cloud media migration, Content Hub GraphQL written up twice in one week, and an Astro SDK for JSS.

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March 2025: Sitecore called itself AI-first, and the field spent the month writing retry loops
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March 2025: Sitecore called itself AI-first, and the field spent the month writing retry loops

SUGCON Europe put Stream, the Marketplace SDK and an AI-first message on stage. The same month, practitioners published workarounds for Edge revalidation 429s, Sitecore Send rate limits, thin XM Cloud analytics and manual SSG filtering.

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February 2025: Pages caught up with Experience Editor, and the field wrote the invoice
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February 2025: Pages caught up with Experience Editor, and the field wrote the invoice

February 2025 brought field editing into XM Cloud Pages. The rest of the month was practitioners documenting what the move costs: media URLs that expire, Solr CPU, a 10.1 to 10.4 upgrade break, and a CVE that is not in the bulletin.

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January 2025: twelve field reports and nothing from the vendor
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January 2025: twelve field reports and nothing from the vendor

A backfilled month, reached through feed archives. Twelve Sitecore posts worth your time, all written by practitioners: Edge webhook timeouts, two 10.4 upgrade logs, Astro on XM Cloud, and two posts called Sitecore Search that mean different things.

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Enhancing Multisite and Market-Specific Handling with Sitecore JSS and Next.js
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Enhancing Multisite and Market-Specific Handling with Sitecore JSS and Next.js

How we adapted the default Sitecore JSS and Next.js setup to serve market-specific and multilingual content from a single site.

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How to solve component refresh in Sitecore XM Cloud using Higher-Order Components
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How to solve component refresh in Sitecore XM Cloud using Higher-Order Components

A React Higher-Order Component that forces a component to refresh in Sitecore XM Cloud Pages when its styles change.

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Overcoming the Content Crisis: The All-in-One Sitecore Content Hub Solution
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Overcoming the Content Crisis: The All-in-One Sitecore Content Hub Solution

How Sitecore Content Hub helps marketing teams produce, review and manage content without the usual bottlenecks.

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