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Recently, together with Wojciech Tengler, we released a new package for Umbraco CMS called Dedicated Media Folder. The package is a must-have for every Umbraco-based website and enables working with files easily. We decided to prepare a short showcase presenting the full power of the package.

Packages are like spices, Umbraco is your meal. Plugins give Umbraco additional functionality, the ability to do more things faster and better way. They extend the possibilities Umbraco has by default and can be a great benefit for every Umbraco-based website. Umbraco CMS does not have so many packages like WordPress but continues to have…

Sorting content in the Umbraco back office tree seems like an obvious function. However, several times, I have found out that people who start working with Umbraco are not aware of this feature. The well-organized & sorted content has several advantages: Editors can easily arrange the order of any elements by themselves. The back office…

Once you define hostnames for a Content node in Umbraco CMS in the back office –  it’s easy to get the list in C# within a few lines of code. To do so you should use the IDomainService and grab the instance. You can get service instance using static service locator as follows: The IDomainService has a very easy-to-use…

Let say we have a member with email umbraco-member@piotrbach.com The system has two member groups named: “Customers” and “Partners” To add a member to both roles you can use a handy method called ‘AddUserToRoles’ available in ‘System.Web.Security’ namespace: You need to specify the user name and desired membership groups (roles) array and that’s it. Once you…

Resetting User password in Umbraco via email You’ve lost your user password and can’t log in to Umbraco back-office? If so, go through the above steps to log in and use Umbraco again. Step 1: Navigate to Umbraco welcome page First, you need to navigate to Umbraco welcome panel and click the “Forgotten password” link….

Umbraco media and Azure private blob storage insights Setting up Umbraco to work with Azure blobs is quite easy with UmbracoFileSystemProviders.Azure package when the blob storage has default settings and “Allow blob public access” is enabled. However, if you want to follow MS security recommendations and store media files on private blob storage – things get a…

Introduction Recently, while working with Umbraco 8.6.0 deployed on Azure I encountered an Examine error: Cannot index queue items, the index is currently lockedUmbraco.Examine.UmbracoContentIndex This is a nasty error that can cause a few problems like: Crashing the whole app for visitors Causing all kinds of back-office errors (searching, editing, examine panel overview) Making editors’…

Introduction The entire Umbraco back-office panel is built around AngularJS which allows for easy extension and modification of basic functionalities. For the work to be effective, you should use a ready set of filters, services, and directives that allow you to speed up the development time. See Umbraco 8 Backoffice UI API Documentation to discover the full…

Do you want to work with Umbraco efficiently? Great! I found people getting confused trying to find relevant resources to start working with Umbraco CMS. For this reason, I have gathered the best links and resources so you could get better insights into Umbraco and start working like a PRO. Let’s jump in. Umbraco official resources Umbraco…

How to fix Umbraco Template not found custom 404 error? In this post, I am gonna share a quick workaround on how you can resolve the Umbraco CMS Template not found error for published content. Recently I had a strange issue while trying to render a view for document type (product). For some reason, the Umbraco engine could not…

This article will demonstrate how to get translation in Umbraco Cms using LocalizationService for a given dictionary key. Defining translations in the Backoffice At this stage, we need some data to work. Login to the Umbraco Backoffice panel. Go to the Translation section. Find the Dictionary section (left panel). Create a dictionary item called “Forms.ContactForm.ThankYouMessage”….

Introduction In this short article, I am going to show the steps needed to set up date-time control programmatically in the Umbraco CMS back office. Recently, I had to refresh the date time picker control value under certain business-logic conditions directly in the angularJs controller. I had some issues, so I decided to write this text and share my working code….

How to serve Umbraco images in WebP format? It’s really simple with the WebP plugin (https://imageprocessor.org/imageprocessor/plugins/webp/) – an awesome extension to the ImageProcessor package. With the WebP package and simple setup, it’s possible to expose Umbraco’s images in Google’s WebP format. By the end of this article, you will know what exact steps you need to take to enable…

Disabling vs deleting Umbraco users As you may have already noticed, the Umbraco back-office panel does not have a built-in user removal option. When you log in and visit the Users section you will see, that you can only deactivate a user. I must mention here, that it’s possible to easily hide these inactive users,…

What you will learn In this article, I’ll show how you can resolve Umbraco CMS API CORS policy problems, so you could easily consume Umbraco API from another domain. By the end of this short tutorial, you will know what steps you need to take to: Configure CORS for Umbraco API Fix Umbraco API CORS…

Introduction There are many ways to make your Umbraco website load faster. In this article, I’ll cover the bundling and minification technique in Umbraco using native Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization library to show how to optimize scripts. Before we start make sure you’ve read my previous post on – How to handle bundling and minification in ASP .NET. You should follow…

How to log exceptions in Umbraco Api Controller? In this short article, I am going to present a simple technique for logging exceptions in UmbracoApi with ActionFilters. There are many ways to handle exceptions in Umbraco CMS, however, logging using filters has quite a benefits: Short implementation time Can be applied globally or only on individual…

Introduction In this short article, I am going to present a simple technique for detecting every slow response in Umbraco API with ActionFilters. It can be very useful when you need to: Find slow responses from the Umbraco API. Apply an efficient micro-benchmark technique without fireworks for use in a short time. Locate Umbraco CMS performance bottlenecks. Fix integration issues. Concept outline The principle of the…