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Sitefinity 3.7 had a cool feature that labeled the content placeholders, in the Page Editor, with the IDs you assigned in your template. As of the latest version (4.4.2117), that feature was still not available. If you've downloaded my Chrome Extension, Sitefinity Detail Viewer, then you've had this functionality for a while but all non-Chrome users have still been left out. Not anymore! I pulled the code for the labeling and refactored it in to a reusable jQuery plugin that you can now download from my public respository on GitHub. You can use it to permanently enable the labels ...
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A new extension in Google's Chrome Web Store allows you to see details about the Sitefinity websites that you encounter. Sitefinity CMS Detail Viewer is short and sweet; displaying a Sitefinity logo in the address bar when you browse to a site powered by Telerik's Sitefinity CMS. Clicking on the icon will display information about the specific version, edition and licensing status of the Sitefinity install the site is using. There's also a notice that will display if modifications to the "Powered by Sitefinity" logo, the one that's required on the community edition, may have been tampered with. This extension ...
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I'm pleased to announce that we've released another control to the Sitefinity Marketplace.
Introducing...*drumroll* Sitefinity 4 Social Links, we made the task of sharing content across social networks a breeze! If you don't have it already, download the Social Links Widget. How to install it Copy the DLL for your version of Sitefinity in to your bin folder. Register the control in your toolbox.
Use "Aptera.Sitefinity.Widgets.SocialLinks.SocialLinks" for the ControlType. Use "Social Links" for the Name and Title. Refresh your web.config Good to go How to use it Drag the Social Links widget to an area on the page that you ...
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Recently I had the need to create a custom blog listing for a client of ours. I've found the process for creating templates, even ones with extra, custom logic, to be pretty enjoyable in 4.1. In this post, I'll walk you through the steps I took. Let's get started! Log in to the Sitefinity administration area of your site and navigate to Design->Widget templates. Create a new template with the "Create a template" button. Using the available drop down, apply it to "Blog posts - list". Paste in the example code below; It's a custom blog post list with some ...
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