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Umbraco in the City

Umbraco In The City - Community activities

2025-11-06 from 13:00 to 17:00 (Europe/London) - Embankment Lounge, First Floor, CitySuites I 16 Chapel Street M3 7NH · Manchester

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Umbraco in the City: Manchester

Fri 7 Nov 2025 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (UK) - x+why Manchester, M3 7FB

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Umbraco HQ

Composable Regrets: Lessons From the First Wave (3 minute read)

Filip Bech-Larsen discusses the challenges faced by enterprises in adopting composable architecture, revealing regrets related to orchestration complexity, hidden costs, and customer experience. He emphasizes the need for a practical approach that prioritizes clarity and user experience, advocating for composability that truly delivers value rather than merely offering flexibility.

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Community

Build Faster with Two New Starter Kits for Trades and Events (2 minute read)

Paul Daly announces two new Starter Kit & Theme add-ons for uSkinned Site Builder: Tradesperson and Conference. These responsive themes enable quick website launches for trade businesses and events, respectively, while maintaining access to uSkinned's full features. Users can start with a free trial or choose hosted and self-hosted options.

[ #starterkits ] [ #theming ] [ #uskinned ]

Learning TDD by doing: Acceptance testing with Umbraco's management API (7 minute read)

Dennis discusses his experience automating content scenarios for acceptance testing with Umbraco's management API. He outlines his goals, the tools used (including xUnit and NSubstitute), and the challenges faced, such as the lack of visual regression testing in .NET. Dennis shares insights on his testing setup and encourages readers to explore his GitHub repository for examples.

[ #managementapi ] [ #testing ]

Visualise Document JSON in Umbraco Content section (3 minute read)

Umbraco CMS 16+ allows users to extend the backoffice using TypeScript. Richard Soeteman demonstrates creating a JSON content viewer Workspace View for Admin users, enabling easy access to document JSON. By consuming UMB_DOCUMENT_WORKSPACE_CONTEXT and configuring a manifest file, the JSON viewer is restricted to Admins in the content section.

[ #backoffice ] [ #typescript ] [ #umbracocms ]

Events

Umbraco Community Hour - Virtual Meetup

2025-10-29 from 13:00 to 14:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online

[ #social ] [ #virtual ]

Umbraco Meetup Germany - Umbraco Cheese Night 🧀 Community Event

2025-10-30 from 17:30 to 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) - Westhafenhaus, Speicherstraße 1, Frankfurt, DE

Turkiye Umbraco User Group / Kullanicilari Grubu - Umbraco 17 ve daha fazlasi

2025-11-04 from 19:30 to 21:30 (Europe/Istanbul) - Online

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Umbraco India User Group - 🚀 Umbraco Migration Series: Session 2 – Database Migration from Umbraco 7 → 13

2025-11-05 from 16:00 to 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) - Online

[ #migrations ] [ #umbracocms ]

Umbraco India User Group - Bulk Upload for Umbraco – Build Together, Contribute Together!

2025-11-05 from 17:00 to 18:00 (Asia/Kolkata) - Online

Umbraco Melbourne - November 2025 Meetup

2025-11-05 from 18:00 to 19:30 (Australia/Melbourne) - Luminary, Level 1, 195 Little Collins Street, Melbourne, AU

Umbraco Virtual - Umbraco Open House - An Entry Point for Newcomers

2025-11-06 from 18:00 to 19:30 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online

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Training

Load Balancing and Azure (November 4th 2025)

Nov 04, 2025 - Europe - EUR 1250.00

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Packages

Limbo.Umbraco.TwentyThree 13.0.2

Video picker for inserting TwentyThree videos in Umbraco.

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Limbo.Umbraco.MediaPicker 13.0.1

Extends the functionality of Umbraco's build-in media picker property editor.

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Rivlo.FriendlyMembers

Handy member management utilities for Umbraco 13.

[ #membership ] [ #umbracocms ]

Social

Join the Open Circle Discussion 6th November before Umbraco in the City Manchester

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Umbraco Spark seeking volunteers to MC at the 2026 event

[ #festivals ] [ #umbracospark ]

Umbraco Tees Day happening this FRIDAY

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Running Umbraco on a Fairphone 5

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