Category: XBlog

Integrating XBlog into a Custom Sitecore Project – Part 2

In my last blog I had talked at a high level about how XBlog’s foundation layer was implemented as a base line to a custom news solution. In this blog, I want to explore the nuts and bolts a bit more to give a better picture about how it all came together. Quickly rebuilding … Continue reading Integrating XBlog into a Custom Sitecore Project – Part 2 →

XBlog for Sitecore 9

XBlog for Sitecore 9 has been updated and released here - https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/X/XBlog.aspx . You can download the source code here - https://github.com/XCentium/XBlog . Make sure to select the Sitecore 9 folder as the old version was left in place for legacy use. There was some minor fixes made. Buckets were updated to handle the folders based on the … Continue reading XBlog for Sitecore 9 →

XBlog 8.2 Patch

Akshay Sura recently installed XBlog and found a problem on Sitecore 8.2 Update 5. He found that the database type had changed from Sitecore.Data.Database to Sitecore.Data.DefaultDatabase . I dug through the older versions and found that this was present in all Sitecore 8.2 Updates. To manually fix this problem please navigate to App_Config/Include/XBlog.Sitecore.Buckets.config . There … Continue reading XBlog 8.2 Patch →

XBlog Renderings

It has been a while since I have done an XBlog post. If you are not familiar with the tool, XBlog is a blogging module for Sitecore. This is something that I co-authored a couple years back and continue to maintain. You can find on the marketplace at: https://marketplace.sitecore.net/Modules/X/XBlog.aspx . XBlog was developed with the mindset that … Continue reading XBlog Renderings →