Optimizely (Episerver)

Getting more Insight (pun intended) into Episerver Profile Store

Profile Store, Insight, Tracker, Advance - Episerver offers a myriad of different (but connected) REST services for managing and tracking your visitors and prospects. It can be slightly confusing at first - and some of the documentation might be a tad misleading - but once you get the hang of it, they are really powerful tools. I've recently had a chance to explore them in depth. Here is what I've learned so far.

Tips and Tricks CMS Behavior Analytics Optimizely (Episerver)

August 29 2019

Episerver Forms and Pardot Form Handlers

Episerver comes with a wide range of connectors that allows you to connect Marketing Automation systems to Episerver through multiple integration points. However in some cases you might want to hook directly into the Marketing Automation systems form handler. In the case of SalesForce Pardot it's very easy to do!

Tips and Tricks Integrations CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

August 13 2019

The tricky redirect

Sometimes, when you are troubleshooting you forget the obvious in search of more complex reasons. Recently I had a case of that where an Episerver site kept redirecting the moment it was launched.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

July 8 2019

Site Map Generation with Custom Filter

There's a handful of great add-ons I use in almost every Episerver project - and several of them are from Geta. Here is a useful hint if you, like me, use the Geta SiteMap generator.

Tips and Tricks Optimizely (Episerver)

July 3 2019

Digizuite DAM for Episerver - try it out!

The Digizuite DAM for Episerver integration is now available in the Episerver nuget feed! We've worked long and hard on this, so feel free to have a look and try it out!

Integrations Optimizely (Episerver)Digizuite Addon Development

June 17 2019

Publicwww - searching for interesting Episerver CMS use patterns

I recently discovered publicwww.com a cool service that lets you search for any text in the html/css/js of all it's 550 million (2019-05-09) indexed web pages, including the cookies sent out and the http header. In this post I put my Episerver goggles on and had some fun with this data.

Information Retrieval Optimizely (Episerver)CMS

May 9 2019

Episerver Content Provider Resilience Strategies

Content Providers for Episerver is a powerful tool with huge potential for integrations. But how should you handle fault resilience when dealing with a real time connection to an external system? As part of the integration to Digizuite DAM I have helped build, I have given this a great deal of thought.

Integrations Digizuite Optimizely (Episerver)CMS Addon Development

April 2 2019

Routing in Episerver Addon Modules

When your build your own addons, modules and extensions for Episerver CMS, you often want to include controllers - and naturally you want to call these controller - but which url should you use? I always forget this, so here is a little reminder.

Addon Development Tips and Tricks CMS Optimizely (Episerver)

March 19 2019

Distributed Content: Delivering an Episerver Web Experience with Contentful Content

The move in the market towards headless could also be seen as a tendency towards a deeper decoupling between content and experience delivery. Inspired by a few discussions, I've tried my hands on an uncommon combination: Contentful providing content delivered through an Episerver web experience layer.

Vision Demos & Prototypes Integrations Optimizely (Episerver)Contentful CMS

March 5 2019

Episerver Advance Recommendations on CodeArt

Some times you have so much great content on your website that you just wish you had a librarian to let your visitors know what to read next. And with Episerver Advance (Content Recommendations) you can at least have something that comes pretty close. I have been lucky enough to try it out on my site.