Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Chapter 4. Leveraging the Sitecore Backend

In this chapter, we will cover the backbone topics of the Sitecore architecture. Sitecore's flexible and robust architecture enables you to extend any portion of its backend platform architecture to fulfil the requirements. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Working with multiple sites
• Customizing pipelines to achieve a custom 404 page
• Creating a custom event handler to auto-publish on an item save
• Achieving a site-specific URL pattern for a multisite environment
• Initializing hooks to subscribe events to prepare an audit trail
• Creating jobs to accomplish long-running operations
• Using a scheduling agent to delete older item versions
• Scheduling database tasks

Introduction

As we have seen in the ...