Graham Carr

personAlias: Graham Carr

businessCompany: MSQ DX

location_onLocation: United Kingdom

linkBlog: My little corner

Twitter: GrahamCarr74

infoAbout me: I am an experienced Technical Architect with over 30 years’ experience in a wide range of products and technologies. I currently work at MSQ DX and over the years I have helped companies deliver their digital vision from concept all the way through to delivery. I have a particular passion for DXPs (Digital Experience Platforms) and am a certified developer for products such as Optimizely, Umbraco, Kontent.ai and more.

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A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: OptiA11y: accessibility help for Optimizely editors that refuses to lie to them

Posted on: Sep 15, 2026

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Most accessibility tooling in the CMS space has the same shape. A crawler walks your published site, renders each page, runs axe-core over the DOM,...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Commerce Connect 15 isn't an upgrade. It's a reset.

Posted on: Sep 14, 2026

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The version number is doing a lot of work to look harmless. Fourteen to fifteen. A nudge, surely. Bump the packages, run the build, ship it Friday....

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Scoping a Search & Navigation - Optimizely Graph migration with Roslyn

Posted on: Sep 12, 2026

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If you have an Optimizely solution of any real age, you have Find code. Not in one tidy SearchService.cs , either, it's spread through page...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: London Meetup 2026

Posted on: Jul 10, 2026

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On 2nd July 2026 the Optimizely London Developer Meetup returned to The Lightwell, and the running theme across the evening was less about individu...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Managing Graph search: the native portal and the community plugin

Posted on: Jun 09, 2026

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Optimizely Graph has quietly become the search engine sitting underneath most new Optimizely builds. It ships with CMS 13, it's the answer to "what...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Getting Up to Speed with Optimizely CMS 13 — A Free Learning Path

Posted on: Apr 10, 2026

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If you're working with Optimizely and haven't started exploring CMS 13 yet, now's the time. I've put together a dedicated CMS 13 course within the...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Optimizely CMS 13 Is Here: The Features, The Add-Ons, and What's Coming Next

Posted on: Apr 10, 2026

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CMS 13 went GA on 31st March 2026, and after months of previews, webinars, and internal engineering sessions, it's finally real. I've been deep in...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Learning Optimizely Just Got Easier: Introducing the Optimizely Learning Centre

Posted on: Jan 31, 2026

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On the back of my last post about the Opti Graph Learning Centre, I am now happy to announce a revamped interactive learning platform that makes...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Introducing Optimizely Graph Learning Centre Beta: Master GraphQL for Content Delivery

Posted on: Jan 30, 2026

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GraphQL is transforming how developers query and deliver content from Optimizely CMS. But let's be honest—there's a learning curve. Between...

A day in the life of an Optimizely OMVP: Migrating an Optimizely CMS Extension from CMS 12 to CMS 13: A Developer's Guide

Posted on: Jan 26, 2026

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With Optimizely CMS 13 now available in preview, extension developers need to understand what changes are required to make their packages compatibl...