5 Best Ways to Customize Sitefinity for Improving Content Management Experience

Sitefinity is a popular choice for anyone looking for ease of use in your day-to-day CMS. Not only this, it offers flexibility to the development team to build widgets and API calls to meet required business rules. This CMS is best for delivering a great user experience and technically robust to meet the demands of custom solutions.

If you have invested in Sitefinity development and finding ways to enhance the CMS experience, then these are the best tips to achieve this:

1.      Inline Image Editing

Sitefinity allows you to sort and categorize sub-folders in the image library. Not only this, you can even edit the inline to the CMS. Those days are completely gone when you have to size your images in the Photoshop before uploading on the CMS. Using Crop/Resize/Rotate tool, you can open content boxes for editing within the CMS itself.

2.      Expanding News, Blogs, and Press Release Functionality

Sitefinity provides various content types that can be used as base functionality: News, Blogs, and Press Releases. Their base functionality will be accommodated by lots of users. With Sitefinity CMS, accommodating custom development is not a challenging thing to do. Along with base content widgets, you can customize Sitefinity to:

·         Offer custom social media feed in sidebars

·         Leverage custom design features on the detail page

·         Providing infinite load on detail page, and many more.

3.      Creation of Custom Search Functionality for your Content

Displaying your company’s content in the easy style is sometimes the most difficult things to do. If your customers would reap benefits by interacting with your complex content, data, or case studies, Sitefinity CMSdevelopment will be customized for leveraging that content within the sales and service cycle due to custom search functionality.

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4.      Multiple Page and Navigation Widget Templates

Sitefinity CMS provides multiple page template options (one or two columns, left sidebar, etc.). You will even get the flexibility to add new ones on your own. When you will do this addition, you will get custom page templates with distinct navigation widgets. This will give you the appearance of a multiple websites within the same CMS. With effective strategy and architectural planning, you can utilize the Sitefinity feature for showing different navigation and design elements.

5.      Admin Portal for Managing Data

Another best possible way to leverage Sitefinity CMS is by making an admin section of Sitefinity as the control panel for our customer’s internal systems. Many customers have internal workflow, APIs, and processes to handle complex business rules efficiently.