I’ve always appreciated EPiServer’s ability to be friendly to arbitrary code – if you have some application-ish functionality you need as part of your site, EPiServer will play nice with it without you having to jump through hoops. However, it’s...

When you write a custom property, you often end up writing a custom control for it too.  Then, when you call that property using the EPiServer Property control, it creates your internal (“inner”) control as part of its controls collection.  Your...

One thing which has always been a mild frustration to me is EPiServer’s template mapping.  The concept of each Page Type only having one template always seemed restrictive.  The concept works fine in 95% of cases, but the other 5% can be a pain. ...

We recently implemented a site that had more PDF files than pages, in a ratio of about 6-to-1.  Sadly, this process revealed some of the shortcomings in EPiServer’s default search architecture. The biggest problem we found is that there are two...

Someone posted something to the forums in which they’re solving a problem I’ve had in the past using Dynamic Content: [we used] DynamicContent property to display a site wide value on the web page. So, Dynamic Content is used as a placeholder,...