Umbraco
Most recent blogs in the Umbraco category
25Jun2014
Decoupling Umbraco from your front-end website
In certain high-risk situations it is necessary to not operate your site on a live database. Here's a way to get a lot of the good stuff from Umbraco 7 and still satisfy the no-database requirement!
23Apr2014
Merchello - the answer to your Umbraco eCommerce needs?
Umbraco 7? Check. The new Merchello plugin for Umbraco 7? Check. eCommerce. Check, check, check!
18Jul2016
Searching PDFs with Umbraco
My current website has a simple requirement: combine regular page search results with PDF file results. Simple, right?
11Jul2016
Handling AJAX Postbacks using the UmbracoApiController
A brief introduction to using UmbracoApiController for Ajax requests.
7Apr2016
Bootstrap for Project Managers (aka Dummies)
Bootstrap has been around for a few years now, and everything I'd read about it told me what a fantastic front-end framework it is. That everything is faster and easier and it can save web developers heaps of time. Unfortunately, that's also about all I knew about Bootstrap. Ignorance is bliss, right?
4Feb2016
Highrise view - how word gets around
Every now and again, you're reminded about how far-and-wide the Wiliam blog is read.
6Oct2015
Adding enhanced styling to the Umbraco TinyMCE editor
The humble WYSIWYG is an end user’s main interface to editing content on their website. As websites get more complicated, design gets more complicated, and in turn the slice gets more complicated, the WYSIWYG needs to provide more options for styling content.
8Sep2015
A simple split-text custom Umbraco datatype
Designers, eh? They just love making little flourishes on websites.
23Apr2015
Using PetaPoco with Umbraco is pretty sweet.
PetaPoco is a great way to extend the Umbraco CMS database, and I’ve put together a short tutorial showing how easy it really is.
29Mar2015
Updating Your Umbraco Lucene Indexes For Better Searchability
A simple way to enhance your Lucene indexes for searchability across comma separated numerical values.
16Mar2015
Umbraco Code-First: two plugins to keep an eye out for
One of the pitfalls with Umbraco was that you had to generate the properties required for your documents through the UI. Some developers, such as myself, would much prefer creating properties inside view or data models in the backend as normal CSS classes.
11Mar2015
Getting Descendants in Umbraco Examine
An easy way of getting descendant node index entries with a simple query, if you’re into that kind of thing…
13Feb2015
Is the Grid Layout property editor for Umbraco ready for primetime?
The answer is NO… but, it’s so very close!
4Feb2015
Merchello is the eCommerce solution we've all been waiting for
An eCommerce solution for Umbraco that meets your every need and want, by you building for it.
21Jan2015
Umbraco 7.2 Compositions
With the latest release of Umbraco 7.2, we’re given a cool new feature called ‘Compositions’ for document types.
16Jan2015
Sprucing up the TinyMCE editor in Umbraco 7
A walkthrough on how to slap a little makeup on the TinyMCE editor in the Umbraco back office.
16Jan2015
Can only use UmbracoPageResult in the context of an Http POST when using a SurfaceController form
Are you getting "Can only use UmbracoPageResult in the context of an Http POST when using a SurfaceController form" errors from your controller's POST action?
4Dec2014
Umbraco 7.2 - Property editor data storage limitation… resolved
A hidden gem in the Umbraco CMS 7.2 release that's simple, but powerful and opens the door to amazing new extensions.
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