With the upcoming product release of Sitefinity 7.0 getting closer, the roadmap has just recently been made available. Let’s take a quick look at some of the key features and explore the benefits of each.
Custom Fields for Pages
HTML5 Video Player
Having multimedia content on your website is an important way to engage your visitors. Making that content easy to play without the need for additional browser extensions or plug-ins is equally important. Sitefinity is switching over to the RadMediaPlayer for displaying video which enables us to do just that. Bye-bye Silverlight!
Migrate Single Sitefinity Instances to a Multisite Instance
As the number of sites you need to manage increases, even simple content changes can become a burden. The multisite functionality of Sitefinity eliminates that issue but, what if you’ve already got multiple, separate sites? Well, we’re now able to migrate those sites into one multisite installation. One instance. One login. Zero hassle.
Create Relationships between Related Content
Add Media Fields as Custom Fields to Built-in Modules
- Thumbnail images
- Downloadable documents
- Links to audio versions of your content
Duplicate Page Templates and Forms
A lot of work goes into getting your page templates and forms just right. Sometimes it’s necessary to create new versions that address new requirements which used to mean creating a whole new item and re-creating the look of the original. Now, we’re able to directly duplicate those assets from the UI. Since the page content and form fields get automatically re-created in the new version, modifying base templates and forms to fit specific requirements just got a lot easier.
Ecommerce Product Ratings and Reviews
Sitefinity Ecommerce gets another major enhancement, product ratings and reviews. Customers are now able to review and rate the products that are on the site.
Sort and Filter Content in Dynamic Modules
In the past, locating content inside dynamic modules was slightly less than simple. I’m happy to say that those days are now over. With built-in sorting and filtering, finding specific items inside custom modules is more streamlined.
There’s a lot more coming in the Sitefinity 7.0 release. I encourage you to visit Sitefinity’s product roadmap and check out the awesomeness for yourself.