Experience Sitecore !

1. Sitecore Developer Tool
2. Sitecore Analytics Testing Tools
3. Sitecore Expand Collapse Sections
4. Sitecore Keyboard Shortcuts
5. Sitecore Helper
6. Dan's Sitecore Shortcuts

1. Sitecore Developer Tool

This is a nice, elegant and non-obtrusive shortcut extension located at the top right of your Chrome browser. It has several most useful shortcuts logically grouped by tabs.

Admin Pages tab contains useful admin pages hotlinks.

Database tab allows to quickly change context database.

There is also options tab, where you can add / edit favourites, add more databases and perform other settings for the extension.

You may install Sitecore Developer Tool by this link.

2. Sitecore Analytics testing tools

As it comes clear from its name, this is an extension to fit specific analytics purrposes, which are: clearning analytics-related cookies and specifying a forwarded IP address for GeoIP lookups.

Below there are screenshots of its settings screen:

Download and install exension: the link.

3. Sitecore Expand Collapse Sections

Minimal extension that serves just one purpose - expand and collapse data section panels in Sitecore.

What can be easier?

Unfortunately, at the moment this extension does not support Sitecore 8, so the last funcional verison is 7.5

You may install Sitecore Expand Collapse Sections by this link.

4. Sitecore Keyboard Shortcuts

It presents

It is a powerfull extension that allows you to create hot keys to quickly complete common tasks in Sitecore. This is especially useful for demos or for quick access to frequently used items. No need to repeatedly expand the content tree any longer.

it works well for Sitecore 8 as well as with all previous versions I have tested with. It also works well on Mac computers, however mac-specific keyboard extensions (ie. Cmd) are not supported. screenshot below shows settings screen:

And here is a dropdown containing list of possible actions. Quite impressive!

Download and install exension: the link.

5. Sitecore Helper

Download and install exension: the link.

6. Dan's Sitecore shortcuts

Extension provides a drop down with features and shotcut buttons.

Download and install: the link.

Hope these extensions may help you to improve your productivity while working on Stecore projects!

1. Load Sitecore Desktop automatically and pre-select an item

I was wondering, if there is any opportunity to preload Sitecore Desktop automatically on Sitecore enter.

So annoyed of moving mouse across whole big monitor to the very top bottom, then select Content Editor from the menu, then wait till it loads an eventually as content tree loads - navigate to specific item! Even if it does not seem quite complex for a first glance - the number of times I do that per day makes me sadly thinking of wasted efforts for nothing...

Good news, everyone! There a convenient way of creating a shortcut that not only loads Content Editor, but also select any item you would like and loads its data right hand side. Here is the format of url:

http://your.host.name/sitecore/shell/Applications/Content%20Editor.aspx?fo={9CFF486B-9829-416E-8A39-408D3909B4FE}

where fo parameter stands for the item you want to pre-load.

2. If you use Google Chrome - install Chrome extensions for Sitecore

More details in my blog post by this link: Sitecore extensions for Google Chrome