- Blog post
Clankers and content operations
We believe in AI-generated content ... so long as human content teams orchestrate it.
Simeon Griggs
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Simeon's headline: Customer Education at Sanity
Simeon's website: www.simeongriggs.dev/
Simeon's location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Joined: September 2019
Simeon's job title: Customer Education
Latest contributions
- Blog post
Internationalization is more than translating words
The next-intl package allows developers to truly localize React applications with repeatable best practices
Simeon Griggs
Format code blocks with Prettier
Official(made by Sanity team)
Automatically format code blocks using Prettier to enforce consistency across all documents.
Simeon Griggs
Telegram alerts for new comments
Official(made by Sanity team)
Get instant Telegram notifications when new comments are posted, with direct links to your Sanity Studio.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
Functions: Life beyond pressing publish
Sanity now provides compute to service the full content lifecycle. Validate or enrich content. Update external services. Take action when events happen.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
A new era for content applications with Sanity App SDK
You are invited to build and deploy ambitious content experiences faster than ever, using whatever components you like.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
Pushing all the envelopes with ambitious content
Jason Lengsorf, founder of CodeTV joins the Code && Content podcast to talk incremental improvement, avoiding the algorithm trap and not waiting for permission.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
Self-hosting is only free if your time is worth nothing
Simen Svale, Co-founder and CTO of Sanity joins the Code && Content podcast to talk about The Content Lake, why we chose to build it and why you can't BYODB.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
The future beyond AI chat bots
Are text-based interfaces really the future of UI? And what can the current slate of tools do to make us better educated, not just more productive?
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
You're better than AI slop
Even Westvang joins the Code && Content podcast to get better at telling AI what to do, writing micro-management prompts and visualize digesting corn.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
React in 2025, what's next?
Cody Olsen joins the Code && Content podcast to tell us about the future of front-end and the post-React Server Components present.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
The final boss of front-end: block editors
Christian Grøngaard joins the Code && Content podcast to walk through shipping a block editor, behavior state charts, and gherkins.
Simeon Griggs
Schema validation rules to enforce maximum file size
Prevent references to large files to reduce the chances of high bandwidth usage
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
User Select Input
Select project members and save their ID to a document
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
An opinionated guide to Sanity Studio
Official(made by Sanity team)
Sanity Studio is an incredibly flexible tool with near limitless customisation. Here's how I use it.
Simeon Griggs
- Article
Multi-Site CMS: Key Features and How To Choose The Right One
Managing content for multiple websites? Discover the capabilities of multi-site CMSes, their benefits, and expert advice on picking the right one.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
How to generate massive amounts of demo content for Sanity
Official(made by Sanity team)
It can be useful for testing plugins, front ends, or other integrations to have a Sanity Studio populated with fake content.
Simeon Griggs
- Blog post
Visual Editing: give content teams a GPS for your CMS
Visual Editing streamlines everyday content management with an intuitive, one-click path from website preview content to Studio.
- Guide
Visual Editing with Next.js App Router and Sanity Studio
Official(made by Sanity team)
Setup "Live by Default" fetches and interactive live preview with Presentation in Sanity Studio
- Template
Sanity Studio + React Router (Remix) fully featured template
Featured contribution
Official(made by Sanity team)
Batteries-included website template for a content-editable, interactive live-preview enabled Remix website powered by Sanity Studio.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create a document form progress component
Summarise form progression by decorating the entire editing form for a document with a component loaded at the root level.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create richer array item previews
Object types use a preview property to display contextual information about an item when they are inside of an array; customizing the preview component can make them even more useful for content creators.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create interactive array items for featured elements
Save time going in-and-out of modals by moving some light interactivity to array items.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create an array input field with selectable templates
Make repetitive content creation tasks a breeze by supplying content creators with buttons to populate complex fields.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create a time duration object field
Delight your content creators with intelligent inputs for more complex data structures
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create a survey rating number field input
Give content creators quick access to valid values by replacing the default number field input with a list of options.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create a visual string selector field input
Go beyond a plain radio list of inputs by giving authors more contextually useful buttons to select values from.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Create a “coupon generator” string field input
Take the guesswork out of creating fields with correct values and automate content creation for authors.
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Workspace Home
A home screen for your multi-workspace Sanity Studio
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
How to implement Multi-tenancy with Sanity
In this guide, you’ll see how Sanity separates organizations, projects, datasets, and members by working through a hypothetical example of a growing company that can expand its content model as they grow – without needing a complete overhaul.
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Availability
Schema and Custom Input to indicate and rapidly author availability data
Simeon Griggs
Schema validation rules to enforce image size or file type
Uses @sanity/asset-utils to validate an uploaded image by its ID
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Internationalized Array
Store localised fields in an array to save on attributes
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- Tool
Hotspot array
Official(made by Sanity team)
Associate arrays with hotspots on any image
- Guide
Creating a Parent/Child Taxonomy
Create common taxonomy schemas like Categories and Tags with parent/child relationships
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Document Internationalization
Official(made by Sanity team)
Create unique translations of a document based on its language, joined by a shared reference document
- Guide
How to build a Remix website with Sanity and Visual Editing
Official(made by Sanity team)
Combine Sanity's blazing-fast CDN with Remix's cached at the edge pages.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
Creating a custom input to display and save third party data
Sometimes the content you need to reference lives outside of Sanity
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Orderable Document List
Official(made by Sanity team)
Drag-and-drop Document Ordering without leaving the Editing surface
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Cross Dataset Duplicator
Empower content editors to migrate Documents and Assets between Sanity Projects and Datasets from inside the Studio
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
MonkeyLearn Pane
Studio v2
Send the contents of a Portable Text field to MonkeyLearn's API to extract insights with the power of Machine Learning!
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Google Translate
Official(made by Sanity team)
Machine translations from Google Translate directly in your Sanity Studio
- Guide
Visual Editing with Next.js Pages Router and Sanity Studio
Setup interactive live preview with Presentation in a Next.js pages router application
- Guide
ProseableText: Combine Tailwind CSS Typography with Portable Text
Get the best of both worlds. Tailwind-styled typography and Portable Text's markup-and-components structure.
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Iframe Pane
Display any URL in a View Pane, along with helpful buttons to Copy the URL or open in a new tab.
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
SEO Pane
Run yoast.js analysis on your front end, refreshing as you edit your Document, from inside a View Pane.
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Documents Pane
Display the results of any GROQ Query inside a View Pane
GROQ Query for new and unpublished Documents
Not all Unpublished Documents are created equal
- Made with Sanity
House Estate Agents
Data modelling with dynamic data imports
Simeon Griggs
useCurrentUser Custom React Hook
Get details of the currently logged in Sanity user
Simeon Griggs
- Made with Sanity
Recipe Website Proof of Concept
Featured contribution
An exploration of recipe data models for improved user experience
Simeon Griggs
- Tool
Quick Fields Helper Function
Studio v2
Writing Sanity Schema can get verbose and repetitive. Quick Fields is a helper function with sensible defaults to tidy up schema files.
Simeon Griggs
- Guide
How to use structured content for page building
Official(made by Sanity team)
Learn how to create a page builder from structured content that can withstand the test of time and redesigns.
About Simeon
After over a decade of independent consultancy and agency experience, Simeon facilitates Customer Education at Sanity.
His approach is a mix of relentless positivity and genuine enthusiasm. He relishes problem-solving and creating clarity for developers (and regular humans) to better understand technical topics such as full-stack development, content modelling, and localization.
Originally from Australia, Simeon now resides in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
Simeon joined Sanity in 2021 after being a Sanity customer and community regular for about two years. He started in Solution Engineering but now leads Sanity's Customer Education efforts so anyone can feel super confident creating the very best Sanity experiences for content creators.
He is a lifelong trail-running fanatic as of 2023.