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Umbraco Engineering
Practical guidance on Umbraco architecture, upgrades, migrations, content modeling, integrations, and performance for production web platforms.
Umbraco projects rarely become expensive because of one catastrophic decision. Cost grows when content architecture, custom code, data, search,...
Umbraco 9 did more than replace one runtime with another. Moving from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core changed where Umbraco could run, how projects were...
A practical, read-only T-SQL technique for finding published content that uses a specific data type in Umbraco 13
Need to preserve old URLs after an Umbraco 17 migration? Here is how umbracoRedirectUrl works, how to add records with SQL Server, and how to verify the...
How the Umbraco 13 backoffice idle timeout works, which settings control it, and how to balance editor convenience with security.
While migrating and publishing more than 805,000 documents from a legacy CMS, I was looking for every source of unnecessary background work. SQL Profiler...
A practical guide to umbracoUrlName, umbracoUrlAlias, umbracoRedirect and umbracoInternalRedirectId, including how each mechanism changes URL generation and...
Configure alternate URL paths with the reserved umbracoUrlAlias property, understand how alias routing differs from redirects, and account for...
Use umbracoInternalRedirectId to serve another content node internally while keeping the requested URL unchanged, and understand how this differs from a 302...
Create and verify a built-in 302 Temporary Redirect with the reserved umbracoRedirect Content Picker property.
Use the reserved umbracoUrlName property to change a content node’s generated URL segment without renaming the node in the Umbraco backoffice.
A single unreadable JSON log file made the Umbraco 13 LogViewer practically unusable. The first fix addressed Newtonsoft.Json MaxDepth. A later failure...
Learn how to remove Examine indexing for enhanced site performance, faster content publishing, and improved cold boots. Check benefits and pain points.
After upgrading a production-scale Umbraco installation from 11.5.0 to 13.4.1, publishing and unpublishing became extremely slow and database lock errors...
Learn how to set a dynamic Multinode Treepicker start node in the AngularJS backoffice so editors open the picker in the relevant part of the content tree.
Set UmbracoApplicationUrl per environment without hardcoding deployment-specific URLs in appsettings.json. Azure App Service environment variables map...
A focused URL warm-up pattern for Umbraco 13 using a recurring hosted service, interchangeable URL providers, and an HTTP request strategy.
A technical audit guide for finding personal data in an Umbraco solution and reducing the risk of keeping, exposing or processing more data than the project...