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  • May 20

    Disqus Comments on Sitefinity

    Posted Under: Miscellaneous Tags: Disqus Sitefinity

    Things continue to be busy, but I'm doing my best to make time for this site and my various projects. At long last I FINALLY installed Disqus to manage comments for the blog and software posts

    Best of all, after a few frustratingly productive hours of hacking the Disqus API, I managed to import all my Sitefinity comments into Disqus! This was actually a fun project, but man was it a pain in the ass trying to hack that poorly-documented, unfriendly API.

    I have every intention of publishing my work, most likely as a module in the Sitefinity Marketplace...

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  • May 14

    Sitefinity: Easy SP Upgrades with DiffMerge

    Posted Under: General Programming Tags: Helpful Tools Sitefinity

    As part of the process of preparing the Sitefinity Toolkit 1.1 update for release later this weekend, I needed to upgrade my sites to the latest Sitefinity SP3 update.

    For those of you who've done this, you know it's MOSTLY a simple process, but can get tricky when copying the /Sitefinity folder files, because, like me, many of you probably customize or modify these files to meet your needs. Sitefinity addresses a lot of this by supporting external templates, but sometimes it's easier to just edit the files directly.

    However, this becomes a problem with every SP release because these ...

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  • February 03

    Sitefinity Toolkit 1.0: Introduction

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: Sitefinity Toolkit Sitefinity

    It's no secret that I am a devout fan of the Sitefinity content management system by Telerik. But in developing a handful of sites over the past few years, I've discovered that I'm doing a lot of things over and over that I wish were part of the Sitefinity core.

    That's where the Sitefinity Toolkit comes in. After months of hacking, it I've put together a collection of several tools I've developed since I started working with the CMS in 2007. In this post, I'll just be giving a brief overview of what features are included. Future posts in the ...

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  • December 06

    Sitefinity: Password Recovery

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: C# Sitefinity

    As a developer, one of the things I hate most about my job is when people call me to fix their login errors, especially when the problem is a forgotten password:

    Are you sure you remember your password? Yes.

    Are you sure you typed the password correctly? YES!

    Are you SURE? YES!!

    Do you have CAPSLOCK on? ... ... oh [click]

    While there's not much I can do to help them remember how their keyboard works, I can at least help maintain my sanity by enabling them to recover their passwords when they forget them.

    My Sitefinity Password Recovery is ...

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  • September 03

    Sitefinity: Keeping RadPanelBar Expanded

    Posted Under: Web Development Tags: C# Sitefinity Css

    If you need to ensure that the RadPanelBar control (which I use for sidebar navigation) remains expanded, check out the RadPanelbar1_ItemDataBound method in the control located at /Sitefinity/UserControls/Navigation35/SitePanelBar.ascx.

    This control checks the hideUrlForGroupPages, removing the link if set to true on your control. However, this doesn't prevent the link from being active, collapsing the nodes when clicked. I need my menu to be fully expanded, so I modified the code using some newly discovered properties in the e (RadPanelEventArgs) parameter:

    public void  RadPanelbar1_ItemDataBound(object  sender,  RadPanelBarEventArgs  e)
{
     if  (!hideUrlForGroupPages)  return;

     var  node = e.Item.DataItem  as  CmsSiteMapNode;
     if  (node ...

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