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On the 18th of January I presented on Sitecore Users Virtual Group. The presentation was an introduction for developers to the Unified Page Editor. In this post you can check it out and find the links I used in the presentation.

This article contains the first part of the entries submitted in the Sitecore Extension Method Competition. In this part we will especially focus on Item extensions.

In .NET 3.5 extension methods were introduced. Extension methods are great for extending API’s, where you either think something is missing or if you just want something extended so it fits into your custom solution. LearnSitecore wants to know your favorite extension methods to the Sitecore API and therefore we are hosting a Sitecore Extension Method Competition.

In some cases like when importing content or similar, you might need to set layouts on items or standard values programmatically. In this article we will go through an example, where you will learn how to configure both layouts and renderings on a given item.

Sitecore 6 comes with four preconfigured Html Editor Profiles. In this blog post I will describe how to use them and how to change the default profile, which is much easier with Sitecore 6.4 than it was before.

In this blog post you can ensure that your applications and scripts which run in your Sitecore solution isn't executed without users have to login. This is a simple and easy approach and there isn't much code envolved.

Sitecore recommends moving the data folder outside of the webroot because of security issues. This is normally a good idea, as the datafolder contains information, which shouldn’t be accessible for end users. However you might as well use .NET’s security applied to the App_data folder.

Normally we write longer explanatory articles about Sitecore here on Learn Sitecore, but we still have knowledge and opinions to share.

Therefore we have decided to create a blog section on the site, where we will share shorter hints, tricks and opinions.

This is the eighth part of the article series in 11 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

In this article we’ll go through how you can build a presentation oriented spot framework for your website using the Unified Page Editor.

This is the seventh part of the article series in 11 parts, describing how to build a simple information site in Sitecore.

In this article we’ll go through how you can build a content spot framework for your website. This article has been split into two parts. One describing a content oriented implementation and one describing a presentation oriented implementation.