What’s New in Sitefinity Documentation – December 2011

It’s been a busy month here in the Sitefinity team. We’ve managed to ship an important 4.4 release, and a new SDK with some cool new stuff. Hopefully you’ve already downloaded them and tried the new features. We also updated the roadmap with what’s ahead of us. Meanwhile, we published some new documentation resources that you can take a look at.

Developers Guide

We’ve revised a lot of topics and code samples to reflect the changes in the product. All topics for built-in content and pages API have been rewritten to take into account content lifecycle and workflow.

• Pages API
• Content Blocks API
• News API
• Blogs API
• Events API
• Images API
• Documents & Files API
• Videos API

We’ve also written some new topics on how to work with the different lifecycle versions of content items.

• Querying master and live versions
• Editing content
• Deleting content

User Guide

• New Documentation for the Module Builder
  • Creating and using custom modules
  • Configuring custom module widgets
• New Documentation for Site Synchronization
  • Synchronization of data
  • Staging & Synchronization
• New topic on Setting up Social Sharing
• New topic on Configuring the Text Editor

Installation and Administration Guide

• New topics on Azure Blob Storage

ECommerce Guide

• New topics on Product Attributes
• New topics on Product Variations
• New Going Live Checklist

Sitefinity Blogs Highlights

• Migrating from Sitefinity 3 to 4 Deep Dive: Widget Templates – Part of the series Josh did on migration
• CAPTCHA for Sitefinity Forms
• Discover the Most Effective Version of Your Website and Optimize Your Pages with A/B and Multivariate Testing
• URL Filtering in Built-in Content Widgets
• Your Sitefinity Toolset
• New Sitefinity 4.4 SDK Sample: Sitemap Module

We have even more amazing resources to share with you in the beginning of next year, so stay tuned. Enjoy the vacations with your families and gather strength for yet another great year. Happy Holidays from the Sitefinity Team!