Santiago Morla

Alias: Santiago Morla

Company: Verndale (Ecuador)

Location: United States

Blog: My little corner

Twitter: santiagomorla

About me: I am Santiago Morla, an aficionado of software engineering and the continuous learning that this world of development and technology encompasses.

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Level: Participating Citizen

Total contribution points: 471 (gain 279 points more to level up)

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Technical SEO That Ships: Building Google News Sitemaps Into the CMS

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 12, 2026

Technical SEO is full of work that sounds small in a planning meeting and turns out to be product infrastructure once you start building it. “Add a...

Gated Media Without Fragile Redirects in Optimizely CMS

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Dec 09, 2025

Restricted media usually looks simple on the whiteboard. If the user can read the asset, serve it. If they cannot, redirect them to sign in. In...

Moving SSO Configuration From `appsettings` Files to PaaSPortal Without Rewriting the App

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Nov 05, 2025

That was the interesting part of this configuration update. The visible code change was tiny: the committed value for SSO:AzureAD_ClientSecret was...

Why `/episerver/health` Failed Behind CMS Security Layers and How We Fixed It

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Oct 08, 2025

Health check failures are often diagnosed as an infrastructure problem first. The app must be down. The load balancer must be wrong. The probe...

How We Stopped Deleted CMS Pages from Showing Up in Personalized Recommendations

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Aug 14, 2025

A small recommendation bug can quietly damage trust when deleted or unpublished pages keep showing up in personalized content modules. Here is a...

Extending UrlResolver to Generate Lowercase Links in Optimizely CMS 12

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Mar 07, 2025

When working with Optimizely CMS 12, URL consistency is crucial for SEO and usability. By default, Optimizely does not enforce lowercase URLs, whic...

Building an Interactive Hotspot Editor in Optimizely CMS 12

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Oct 10, 2024

Have you ever wanted to let content editors place interactive hotspots directly on an image—without leaving the CMS? In this post, I’ll walk throug...

Custom ContentArea Converter for Optimizely CMS 12 in a Headless + PaaS Architecture

Syndicated blog - Posted on: May 15, 2024

When building headless websites with Optimizely CMS 12 using the Content Delivery API, ContentArea properties can be tricky. By default, they retur...

Enhancing the Authoring Experience: Extending the LinkItem

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Apr 10, 2024

The LinkItem field is one of the most demanded properties by the community, allowing editors to effortlessly create and manage links across pages a...

Optimizely CMS – Allow Forms to Redirect to Media Assets

Syndicated blog - Posted on: Aug 16, 2023

Optimizely Forms is a powerful add-on that can improve the experience for authors to create custom forms as needed with plenty of capabilities. It...