Display the Title Row (Top Navigation) in the Search Centers of SharePoint 2013

February 13, 2013

When working with the new search centers in SharePoint 2013, the first thing that you will notice is that the title row is different compared with for example a standard Team Site. Show image Standard SharePoint 2013 Title Row Show image Search Center Heading - Title Row is Hidden As you can see, the title row (red box) where the top navigation should be, is replaced by the search icon and search box (orange box).

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Hiding the Social Actions (Follow / Share) from the Document Libraries in SharePoint 2013

February 5, 2013

SharePoint 2013 got very social, everything can be tagged, followed, shared. But these new social features require some user adoption, and it could be that your client does not want to have this functionality. This is exactly what a client of us requested, they did not want to have the Follow and Share actions on their site and document libraries.

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How to Provision Your Design Files in SharePoint 2013

January 31, 2013

When upgrading my clients’ page layouts from SharePoint 2010 to 2013, I stumbled on something annoying. The content of my page layouts was not being updated when I deployed a new version of my page layout solution. Everything seemed to be correct, because the file itself was correctly provisioned the first time.

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Sticky Footer Solution for SharePoint 2013

January 23, 2013

Footers and SharePoint that was the starting point of this blog. Back in August 2010, I blogged about how to create a sticky footer for your SharePoint 2010 sites (blog post can be found here and here). Now it is time to upgrade this sticky footer solution to SharePoint 2013.

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Search Hover Panel Positioning Bug in non IE Browsers (SharePoint 2013)

January 23, 2013

New SharePoint versions can be challenging, especially when it comes to branding your sites. When you are in a migration process like me, you will probably have to re-do the branding to support the new functionalities. Assuming that everything will work like before can be really disappointing. There are a lot of new functionalities, which means that your design will also need to support these functionalities.

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Adding Custom Search Suggestions in SharePoint 2013

January 16, 2013

By default search suggestions are enabled on the default search boxes in SharePoint 2013. Show image Search Suggestions Server administrators are still able to manually add search suggestions via PowerShell, but the commands have been changed a little. Check out the following blog post how to do it in SharePoint 2010.

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