Broken “Select a rendering dialog” after the 10.1.3-PRE hotfix with SXA

As many of you should and have noticed, a recent security issue was found in Sitecore which meant that that issue had to be patched. Instead of supplying us with only an update for the security issue, a cumulative hotfix (or a pre-release) had been issued. This update contained a lot of functional fixes, however …

Sitecore SXA – Creating a proper fallback for the og:title element

SXA is a great product and comes with opengraph support out of the box, you can define the following opengraph fields on every page: Title Description Image Type Site name Admins App Id All opengraph fields will not be outputted as HTML tags when they’re empty, except for the Title field. Sitecore uses the Sitecore.XA.Feature.SiteMetadata.Repositories.OpenGraphMetadata.OpenGraphMetadataRepository …

Sitecore SXA/JSS – Invariant language versions and access denied exceptions

Within a new implementation running on Sitecore 10.1 with SXA, we ran into a problem where we saw Invariant Language versions being created on certain items or recieving access denied exceptions, when saving an item. After a long time i’ve managed to reproduce the issue and pinpoint it to a new handler that was introduced …

Sitecore SXA – Sort by title does not work

Please note that my suggested solution isn’t specific for SXA. You can use this without SXA, as it introduces a new computed field. The SXA Sort Results component lets you sort your search results based on the Sortings that you define within /sitecore/content/Your Tenant/Your Site/Data/Search/Sort Results.This functionality will make use of the default Solr sorting, …

Sitecore – Hide the primary language from a multilingual site.

For one of our projects, we have a multilingual site, which contains content in Dutch and in English. To make sure that the language of the site isn’t determined just based on a cookie value, we’ve set LanguageEmbedding to Always on our LinkManager. By default, this will lead to the following:https://www.testdomain.com/nl-NL/mypagehttps://www.testdomain.com/en/mypage Looks great doesn’t it? …