Software Blog: Sitefinity 3

The final step in migrating this site from Sitefinity 3 was to restore the Disqus comments on my blog. As I mentioned sometime ago, I replaced the Sitefinity comments with Disqus and have used it ever since.

Unfortunately, Disqus uses the Url as the identity key for each discussion. As I've mentioned throughout this series of migration posts, I am using the ...

As part of the migration of my website from Sitefinity 3, I updated both the Url format for pages (now extensionless) and blog posts (also extensionless and different format) for better readability and SEO. This of course would leave a wake of broken links and search results linking to the old Urls.

There are many options available to resolve this, such as ...

As I've discussed previously, the Sitefinity Migration Module greatly simplifies and mostly automates the process of moving from the old version 3.7 up to the latest version. It imports all pages as well as any existing native content items such as news, events, and blogs.

It even preserves the existing Urls so that you don't lose any of your delicious, delicious existing ...

By default, the Sitefinity Migration tool imports content items and pages with their original urls fully intact. That means all your old urls and SEO remain intact, including the original .aspx extensions from the old website.

However, Sitefinity now uses extensionless urls exclusively. Content items and pages have a UrlFormat property that determines how published urls should be formed. This is similar ...

In addition to upgrading the underlying platform running this site, I thought I was about due for a design change as well.

The new theme for this website is actually a template I purchased from ThemeForest, a fantastic resource for  web and CMS templates. ThemeForest is part of Envato, which offers many different sites for different resources, including stock music, ...