Content blocks

This section provides you with an overview of the Content Blocks Module API in Sitefinity and guides you through the common tasks when working with content items.

You use content items to manage shared content throughout the site.

Sitefinity back-end provides you with a user-friendly interface to create content items. You can also create content items programmatically using the Native or Fluent APIs.

The section contains the following:

• Creating content items

  Describes how to create a content item using Native or Fluent API.

• Querying content items

  Describes how to query for a content item based on its ID using Native or Fluent API.

• Finding content items

  Describes how to search for a specific content item using Native or Fluent API.

• Modifying content items

  Describes how to modify a content item using Native or Fluent API.

• Deleting content items

  Describes how to delete a content item using Native or Fluent API.

• Creating content block with shared content

  Describes how to create a content block control that uses shared content item.

To manage content items through Content Blocks Native API, you must add the following namespaces to your class:

To manage content items through Content Blocks Fluent API, you must add the following namespaces to your class:

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