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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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Reference assets from your theme You will notice that Telerik decided to make it a standard for playing template and theme content in the App_Data folder. When accessing assets from your theme or template, you can skip right over the “App_Data” references in your project. The routing in the application knows when “/Sitefinity” is referenced, to start from the App_Data folder. <script type="text/javascript" src="/Sitefinity/WebsiteTemplates/Custom/JS/global.js"></script> Remove Ajax Framework by Default By default – the Ajax Framework is turned on for every page. If you don’t have any controls that require it – then it adds a lot of additional inline source ...
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