Most people don’t realise that the Kentico repeater web part can be nested to satisfy complex requirements. In his latest Tips and Tricks, Matt takes us through what this means and how it works.

Ralph Spandl talks us through customising the look of search results with Kentico 4.1 and the user-friendly smart search.

The smart search is one of the great new features introduced in Kentico 4.1. While I have covered the basic functionalities in a recent blog post, and the setup of the search module is very well covered by the Kentico documentation, let’s take a look into the possibilities of customizing the look of the search results.

Ralph Spandl pulls apart the inner workings of Tweet Me - a custom Kentico web part allowing for the sharing of blog posts via Twitter - sharing the thought processes behind the development.

The idea of developing a Kentico web part that would automatically append a Twitter update link came one raining morning. Until that point I had not planned to write a web part and I was not a big fan of Twitter.

I’d had one of my colleagues Alice O’Brien telling me that I should be using Twitter, for weeks, but I could not imagine spending any time tweeting, and I had no idea what to tweet about.

In fact, the only thing I could think of using Twitter for was to maybe spread the word about my blog posts. An idea was born. I needed a simple, easy-to-use button that would create tweets of my blog posts, usable by my readers as well - a simple one click web part.