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Patt MacMillan

United States

MVP 2026

Technology

United States
MVP 2025

Technology

United States

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2025

25/Nov

Sitecore Content Service: A New Era

I blogged about the new Sitecore Content Service, particularly about the upcoming changes to publishing/content availability and the new graph-based content structure.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

20/Nov

Bug Report: ServicesAPI user getting locked out

I submitted a support ticket related to the sitecore\ServicesAPI user getting unintentionally locked out after applying the patch outlined in Security Bulletin SC2025-003 (https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003667). Sitecore support confirmed this bug with reference number PDXP-11391, and the fix was applied to the cumulative hotfix for Sitecore XM/XP:

"The installation of security patch Sitecore.Support.10.0-10.4.zip from Sitecore Security Bulletin SC2025-0...

Sitecore XP

2025

10/Oct

Bug Report: Using Display Name for Multilist with Search Field in Page Builder

I submitted a support ticket regarding a bug in Sitecore XM Cloud's Page builder. The bug was that Multilist with Search fields did not use the item's Display Name in Page builder. This resulted in Sitecore Support registering this as a bug with the reference number PGS-5701.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

3/Oct

Word Docs to Websites: How I Used AI to Migrate AEM Franklin Content Into Sitecore

A blog post going into detail on how to migrate content from Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Franklin into Sitecore. Contains real approaches and code examples on how to extract JSON data from Microsoft Word files and importing it into Sitecore.

Sitecore XM

2025

4/Aug

Consolidating Multiple Crawlers into a Single Source in Sitecore Search

A blog post describing how to create a Sitecore Search crawler that handles several different types of crawling mechanisms (Sitemaps, API, etc.) in one crawler. Describes the approach and includes code examples.

Sitecore Search

2025

29/Jul

Sitecore Personalize Platform Essentials & Certification Success

Presented on what Sitecore Personalize is, and my experience with the certification exam. I talked about the takeaways I got from studying for the exam, as well as how to use Sitecore Personalize, the benefits of it and how it can be implemented in real-world scenarios.

A copy of the presentation deck can be found in the provided link.

Sitecore Personalize

2025

28/May

Bug Report: TreelistEx limited to 50 items in Page Builder

I submitted a support ticket outlining that in XM Cloud's Page builder, there was a bug that limited the number of results in a TreelistEx field to 50. As a result, Sitecore Support confirmed this bug with the reference number PGS-4441, and a fix was implemented into XM Cloud.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

22/May

Streamline Sitecore CLI with PowerShell Scripts

A blog post containing useful Powershell module scripts I wrote to interface with the Sitecore CLI. These scripts include easier interfacing in multi-environment solutions (getting environment details, downloading specific logs and tracking deployment statuses) and more.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2025

18/Mar

Missing documentation: Cannot select "Hour" for crawler schedule

Submitted a ticket regarding missing documentation related to the crawler scheduling functionality in Sitecore Search. As a result, the Sitecore support team submitted a request to update the Sitecore Search documentation to reflect the gap.

Sitecore Search

2025

17/Mar

Resolving XM Cloud Deployment Issues: A Guide

A blog post that goes over several scenarios for failed XM Cloud deployments and how to resolve them.

Sitecore XM Cloud

2024

15/Nov

Blog Post - Three Exciting Innovations Introduced at Symposium 2024

This is a blog post I wrote about my experiences at Sitecore Symposium 2024. I think this is valuable as it provides interesting information to the community about new features coming to the Sitecore platform and tools to help development productivity.

2024

7/Nov

Sitecore Innovations & Symposium Insights - New England Sitecore User Group

I spoke at the New England Sitecore User Group. My presentation went over some neat tools to help with Sitecore development such as GitHub Codespaces and Vercel's v0.dev Generative AI. I also spoke about Sitecore Stream and other things I learned at Sitecore Symposium 2024.

2024

23/Apr

Patt's Sitecore Blog

My Sitecore-focused blog. Posts can be found directly on the homepage under "Latest blog posts" and "More blog posts".

I have been particularly passionate about sharing new things I've learned and productivity tips that make my job as a Sitecore developer easier. Lately, I've been posting walkthroughs and code I've written for products like Sitecore Search and XM Cloud.

I noticed a gap information for developing for XM Cloud with the .NET Core SDK, so I've written posts on this to help o...

Sitecore XM Cloud