en https://world.optimizely.com/blogs/jacob-jones/60Optimizely World https://jakejon.es/blog/adding-a-honeypot-to-episerver-forms Honeypots are a convenient and lightweight way of eliminating (or at least reducing) spam in form submissions, this post will take you through implementing a version in Episerver Forms. https://jakejon.es/blog/adding-a-honeypot-to-episerver-forms Fri, 04 Jun 2021 17:04:27 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/validating-the-maximum-length-of-a-text-field-in-episerver-forms This blog post will show you how to allow editors to specify a maximum length for text boxes (and text areas) in Episerver Forms and then utilize the maxlength attribute to restrict what users can enter. https://jakejon.es/blog/validating-the-maximum-length-of-a-text-field-in-episerver-forms Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:27:33 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/enhanced-propertylist-for-episerver By default, the Episerver PropertyList shows ContentReferences (including images) and Urls as IDs and permanent URLs. This post is about the Enhanced PropertyList which improves the editor experience by show content names and image previews. https://jakejon.es/blog/enhanced-propertylist-for-episerver Fri, 20 Nov 2020 04:58:59 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/filtering-by-flags-enums-in-episerver-search-and-navigation Out-of-the-box the Episerver Search & Navigation Filter method doesn’t support filtering by flags enums, however, this post provides a solution in the form of a copy-and-pastable extension method. https://jakejon.es/blog/filtering-by-flags-enums-in-episerver-search-and-navigation Sat, 31 Oct 2020 03:45:32 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/a-plugin-to-move-categories-in-episerver There is no way in the Episerver CMS UI to move a category from under its parent, however, this post provides a simple plugin that solves the issue. https://jakejon.es/blog/a-plugin-to-move-categories-in-episerver Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:39:32 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/revisiting-markdown-in-episerver Here we revisit the (long untouched) idea of using markdown in Episerver, utilizing EasyMDE with some customization to allow linking to Episerver content and using Episerver images. https://jakejon.es/blog/revisiting-markdown-in-episerver Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:42:30 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/displaying-an-edit-notification-in-episerver This post shows how a custom edit notification can easily be configured in Episerver. It draws on the notifications Episerver displays when alerting the editor to a page having a shortcut or expiring and explains the code (or tries to) where necessary. https://jakejon.es/blog/displaying-an-edit-notification-in-episerver Wed, 03 Jun 2020 21:50:27 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/adding-a-telephone-link-option-to-the-episerver-link-editor This post covers the intricacies of extending the Episerver link editor, going through the necessary changes step-by-step and pointing out the potential pitfalls. https://jakejon.es/blog/adding-a-telephone-link-option-to-the-episerver-link-editor Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:25:07 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/plugin-to-list-and-delete-all-missing-properties-in-episerver This blog post revives a 7-year-old plugin which allows you to list (and permanently delete) all the missing properties in Episerver. Still, as the proverb says: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” (although admittedly it was little broken, and is now a little fixed). https://jakejon.es/blog/plugin-to-list-and-delete-all-missing-properties-in-episerver Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:34:50 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/plugin-to-list-and-delete-all-missing-properties-in-episerver This blog post revives a 7-year-old plugin which allows you to list (and permanently delete) all the missing properties in Episerver. Still, as the proverb says: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” (although admittedly it was little broken, and is now a little fixed). https://jakejon.es/blog/plugin-to-list-and-delete-all-missing-properties-in-episerver Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:34:50 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/supporting-placeholders-in-the-episerver-forms-form-submission-message A short blog post (relatively) demonstrating how you can modify a form's submission message in code in this case allowing the editor to utilize placeholders. https://jakejon.es/blog/supporting-placeholders-in-the-episerver-forms-form-submission-message Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:30:51 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/removing-all-references-to-some-content-in-episerver If you have a yearning to remove all references to a page, block, image, video or indeed any piece of content in Episerver then this blog post may provide some inspiration. https://jakejon.es/blog/removing-all-references-to-some-content-in-episerver Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:10:13 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/an-update-to-the-configurable-color-picker The Configurable Color Picker now supports defining and using more than one palette per site, for the full details check out this post. https://jakejon.es/blog/an-update-to-the-configurable-color-picker Fri, 17 Jan 2020 03:20:00 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/allowing-episerver-editors-to-create-media-content It's feasible that editors may want to create media in Episerver (to reference external media via a URL or ID for example). This blog outlines a method which allows just this, whilst attempting to make minimal code changes. https://jakejon.es/blog/allowing-episerver-editors-to-create-media-content Fri, 18 Oct 2019 20:43:46 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/restricting-the-number-of-words-in-a-rich-text-editor-in-episerver This post deals with limiting the number of words an editor can enter in a TinyMCE rich-text editor with the aim of doing the minimum amount of Dojo customization possible (which is none). https://jakejon.es/blog/restricting-the-number-of-words-in-a-rich-text-editor-in-episerver Fri, 09 Aug 2019 23:11:33 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/validating-image-aspect-ratios-in-episerver A quick run-through of how you can validate image aspect ratios in Episerver, functionality you probably never knew you needed...until now. https://jakejon.es/blog/validating-image-aspect-ratios-in-episerver Fri, 14 Jun 2019 02:28:11 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/episerver-commerce-custom-tab-ordering Changing the order of the default tabs in Episerver CMS is simple, however, reordering the Commerce tabs is a little trickier. This blog post examines why this is, as well as explaining a possible solution. https://jakejon.es/blog/episerver-commerce-custom-tab-ordering Tue, 14 May 2019 00:46:14 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/restricting-episerver-commerce-media-groups-via-a-dropdown Entering a group name for Episerver Commerce media is normally a case of editors typing one in, this means (amongst other things) that the available options are always obvious. This blog post explains changing that text field into a dropdown as simply as possible. https://jakejon.es/blog/restricting-episerver-commerce-media-groups-via-a-dropdown Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:52:13 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/getting-related-content-based-on-categories-in-episerver-find A brisk guide to resolving related content in Episerver based purely on categories using Episerver Find. https://jakejon.es/blog/getting-related-content-based-on-categories-in-episerver-find Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:35:29 GMT Blog post https://jakejon.es/blog/a-simple-automatic-time-zone-selector-in-episerver A quick look at extending a Dojo component in Episerver through a simple time zone auto-suggestion drop-down where we use the JavaScript Internationalization API to pre-select the user's local time automatically. https://jakejon.es/blog/a-simple-automatic-time-zone-selector-in-episerver Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:23:56 GMT Blog post