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.
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,…
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’…
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…
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…
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 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…