Professional Sitecore 8 Development: A Complete Guide to Solutions and Best Practices

© Phil Wicklund and Jason Wilkerson 2016

Phil Wicklund and Jason Wilkerson, Professional Sitecore 8 Development, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2292-8_11

11. Extending the Experience Editor

Phil Wicklund¹  and Jason Wilkerson²

(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(2)Minnetrista, Minnesota, USA

All front-end Sitecore developers must have a deep understanding of how their front-end code affects a content author's ability to administer content. Specifically, they need to optimize their code for the Experience Editor, and likely, even extend the Experience Editor to help authors manage content easily.

The Experience Editor is one of the most important tools within Sitecore. It's where your content authors are going to spend most of their time, so it's important their experience ...