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uProfile October 2024 - Erica Quessenberry

Erica Quessenberry reflects on her 15-year journey in the Umbraco Community, highlighting her growth from a nervous attendee to a prominent advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. She emphasizes the importance of community involvement, personal connections, and shared experiences, encouraging others to engage and contribute to the evolving landscape of Umbraco.

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Community

My Highlights from the Umbraco US Festival 2024

The Umbraco US Festival in Chicago showcased a vibrant community with workshops and talks focused on Umbraco development. Highlights included sessions on upgrading Umbraco versions, advanced TinyMCE features, and Editor First Design. The event fostered learning and collaboration, culminating in a strong sense of community and exploration of the city.

[ #festivals ] [ #usfest ]

Introduction to Umbraco: A Beginner’s Guide to the Powerful .NET CMS

Umbraco is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) built on the Microsoft .NET framework, designed for users of all technical levels. It offers a user-friendly interface, extensive customization, scalability, and strong community support. With headless capabilities and continuous updates, Umbraco is positioned as a future-proof solution for diverse web development needs.

[ #whyumbraco ]

Getting Started with Umbraco: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Its Structure

Umbraco is an open-source CMS built on the .NET framework, known for its flexibility and user-friendly interface. This guide outlines the setup process, including environment preparation, installation, and backoffice navigation. It also explains Umbraco's structure, covering document types, content nodes, templates, and media management, empowering users to create dynamic websites confidently.

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Mastering Authorization in Umbraco 14/15: Real-World Management API Challenges and Solutions

In this article, Afreed discusses their experiences with Umbraco's Management API, highlighting challenges in authorization for local and production environments. While the API offers robust capabilities, the documentation lacks comprehensive guidance for secure integration. The author advocates for improved documentation to enhance developer understanding and streamline the setup process.

[ #authorization ] [ #managementapi ]

Keeping Sessions Alive in Umbraco with Third-Party Payment Providers

Rick Butterfield discusses challenges with session persistence when integrating third-party payment providers in Umbraco, particularly regarding lost session data post-transaction. He provides a solution involving cookie and session configuration in Program.cs to ensure continuity. Additionally, he shares tips for testing locally using Visual Studio's Dev Tunnels, enhancing workflow efficiency.

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Umbraco 12 vs Umbraco 13 performance on a variety of mini PCs – 2024 Edition

Terence Burridge re-evaluates using mini PCs to run Umbraco in 2024, comparing performance improvements from .NET 7 to .NET 8. Results indicated a 10-15% speed increase on most machines, with the Dell Wyse series emerging as the best balance of cost, performance, and sustainability, despite the Raspberry Pi 5's significant performance gains.

[ #performance ]

How to deploy Umbraco using Web Deploy from Azure DevOps

In this blog post, UmbHost outlines the steps for deploying a website to Cloud Umbraco Hosting using WebDeploy from Azure DevOps. Key steps include downloading the Web Publishing profile, configuring Azure DevOps pipelines, creating variables, and linking artifacts. The post emphasizes the potential for further customization in the deployment process.

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How to build a Scalable, Secure, and Performant Umbraco Website on Azure

This guide by Nurhak Kaya outlines best practices for building a scalable, secure, and performant Umbraco website on Microsoft Azure. It emphasizes using multiple App Service Plans, Azure SQL Database, and Azure Blob Storage, alongside CDNs for enhanced performance and security. The architecture supports efficient management and future scalability.

[ #guides ] [ #performance ]

Managing Stale Carts in Umbraco Commerce

Busra Sengul discusses the challenges faced after migrating an e-commerce site from Vendr to Umbraco Commerce, particularly the accumulation of stale carts. To resolve this, Busra developed an efficient SQL query to delete outdated carts and related data, streamlining the cleanup process and improving site functionality.

[ #commerce ] [ #performance ]

How to deploy Umbraco using Web Deploy from GitHub Actions

In this blog post, UmbHost outlines the process of deploying to Cloud Umbraco Hosting using WebDeploy and GitHub Actions. Key steps include downloading the Web Publishing profile, creating a GitHub workflows folder, configuring a main.yml file, and setting up necessary repository secrets. The post emphasizes the potential for further customization in the workflow.

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Watch & Listen

Kompilator 095 - Vänliga Umbraco med Markus Johansson

Bartek träffar Markus Johansson och pratar om Umbraco - "the friendly CMS"

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Events

Umbraco UK Festival Community Hackathon

2024-11-07 from 09:30 to 17:00 - Hugo & Cat, 135 Bishopsgate, London, GB

[ #festivals ] [ #hackathons ] [ #ukfest ]

Umbraco UK Festival

2024-11-08 from 00:00 to 00:00 - Codenode, 10 South Place, London, EC2M 7EB

[ #festivals ] [ #ukfest ]

Umbraco Sydney meetup - November 2024 - Hybrid Event

2024-11-12 from 18:00 to 20:00 - Microsoft Reactor, Level 10 / 11 York Street, Sydney, AU

Umbraco Happy Hour

2024-11-14 from 16:00 to 18:00 - Town Hall Station, 4500 Valley View Road, Minneapolis, US

Umbraco Oslo November Meetup: Useful AI for Umbraco

2024-11-14 from 17:00 to 20:00 - Nova Consulting Group, Karl Johans gt. 16, Oslo, NO

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Umbraco 15 Launch Party 🥳

2024-11-14 from 17:30 to 20:30 - Dept HQ, Delftseplein 27N 3013 AA, Rotterdam, NL

Umbraco Kent Meetup - 14th November 2024 (In Person)

2024-11-14 from 19:00 to 21:00 - Dragon Coworking (Rochester), 7-8 New Road Avenue, Rochester, GB

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Website starter kit for handyman companies and single service owners.

BlockPreview v2.0.4

UFormKit v1.0.6

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Umbraco Community Starter Pack for BlueSky

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UmbHost launching new locations for UmbDedicated hosting

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Latest Umbraco Workflow minors (13.3, 14.1) add 'scheduled content locking',

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