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Introducing The New Community Advisory Board

Umbraco HQ has established a Community Advisory Board to enhance engagement and communication within its growing community. Formed in August 2024, the board will meet monthly to guide initiatives across various platforms. Members, representing diverse backgrounds, aim to foster inclusivity and support for both current and new community members.

Community

11 quick reasons to choose Umbraco in 2024

Umbraco is a flexible, open-source CMS suitable for businesses of all sizes, offering customization, scalability, and user-friendliness. It supports multisite and multilingual management, robust security, and SEO tools, backed by a strong developer community. With no licensing fees, Umbraco presents a high ROI and adapts to future digital needs.

Facetted search with Examine - Umbraco 13

In this guide, Jesper Mayntzhusen demonstrates how to implement price facets using the new Examine 4 facet engine within the Umbraco starter kit. The process involves updating the Examine package, configuring the price field as a facet, and creating a search service that retrieves products and their price ranges for display on the frontend.

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How to Maintain your Umbraco Website

ADHD Interactive emphasizes the importance of ongoing website maintenance post-launch, particularly for complex Umbraco projects. Key practices include timely upgrades, keeping packages updated, testing forms, enhancing performance, and prioritizing security. The author advocates partnering with a specialized agency for effective long-term support and maintenance.

How to sort on a string field in Umbraco Examine

Debasish Gracias discusses how to enable sorting on string fields in Examine for Umbraco. By changing field types to FullTextSortable and using specific sorting methods, users can effectively sort search results. The article outlines steps for configuration, index rebuilding, and querying, emphasizing the importance of uppercase letters for correct sorting.

Implement Umbraco Delivery API Enabled check

Richard Soeteman implements API endpoints for SEOChecker, allowing retrieval of redirects in headless environments. He integrates Umbraco's settings for the Delivery API, ensuring API key validation through the IApiAccessService. Additionally, he enhances the Swagger definition to include API key parameters, facilitating user access to the endpoints.

Why choose Umbraco for your NGO website

Umbraco stands out as an ideal CMS for NGOs by being cost-effective, user-friendly, scalable, customizable, secure, and offering strong multilingual support. It enables NGOs to focus on their mission while providing enterprise-level features without the high cost.

Events

UmbraCymru - Umbraco Meetup, August 2024

2024-08-29 from 18:30 to 20:30 - Method4, 12-14 Trade Street, Cardiff, CF10 5DT, Cardiff, GB

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Umbraco Tees Day - 30th August 2024

Umbraco Melbourne - September 2024 Meetup

2024-09-04 from 18:00 to 19:30 - Online on other

Packages

CSP manager 1.4.0

Includes Nonce support and Distributed cache clearing

ByteAnt.ByteEditor.RealestateStarterKit

Professionally designed starter kit for real estate and design studio websites.

Umbraco.Community.ClientDrawer

A package for providing your clients a small toolbox of useful links and information.

Social

Umbraco CMS V14.2 is out now

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Umbraco Commerce v14.0.0 is out now

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uMarketingSuite version 2.5.0 released with improved Campaign insights and updated MediaPickers to their V3 variant

Live BlockPreview now available in v1.10.1 and v2.0.1

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