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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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’…
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…