Announcing AI Community Team & Advisory Board, Understanding Contexts in Umbraco AI, Finding a Spark Through Community and much more...

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Announcing the Umbraco in AI Community Team & the AI in Umbraco Advisory Board (17 minute read)

Bolette Kern introduces the Umbraco in AI Community Team and Advisory Board, comprising 27 experts dedicated to enhancing AI integration in Umbraco. Their mission focuses on developing practical AI tools and improving editorial workflows, ensuring AI solutions meet real user needs while fostering creativity and efficiency in content management.

[ ] [ #ai ]

Community

Umbraco Spark 2026 (5 minute read)

Umbraco Spark 2026 featured diverse talks on topics like Umbraco Search, upgrade decisions, and community engagement. Key highlights included discussions on AI's role in accessibility, cloud hosting options, and backoffice improvements. The event emphasized the importance of community and thoughtful integration of AI, leaving attendees excited for future developments.

[ #roundups ] [ #umbracospark ]

Optimizing Umbraco Member Pagination From Slow to Lightning Fast (7 minute read)

Owain.Codes discusses optimizing a client intranet's member management page by implementing database-level pagination. The original approach loaded all members into memory, causing performance issues. The new method queries only necessary data, resulting in 31x faster page loads, 100x less memory usage, and improved code maintainability through single-responsibility methods.

[ #membership ] [ #performance ]

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Searching file content with Umbraco Search (2 minute read)

Kenn Jacobsen introduces a new NuGet package for Umbraco Search that allows indexing and searching of file content, including PDF, Markdown, and text formats, without additional dependencies. The package is fully extensible for other formats, exemplified by a .docx handler. This project enhances backoffice search capabilities while validating the Umbraco Search extension model.

[ ] [ #search ] [ #umbracosearch ]

Understanding Contexts in Umbraco AI (8 minute read)

Matt Brailsford discusses the concept of contexts in Umbraco AI, which serve as reusable containers of knowledge that enhance AI output by providing essential background information. Contexts can include various resource types, such as Brand Voice and Text, and can be assigned at multiple levels, improving the relevance and quality of generated content.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #guides ] [ #umbracoai ]

Building an AI-Powered Log Analyser for Umbraco at the Spark Hackathon (9 minute read)

Nevitech IT Solutions Ltd developed AI.LogAnalyser during the Umbraco Spark Hackathon, creating an open-source package that integrates AI analysis into the Umbraco backoffice log viewer. Users can click a button for AI-generated insights on log entries, streamlining error diagnosis and remediation using various AI providers through Umbraco AI.

[ #ai ] [ #hackathons ] [ #umbracospark ]

Watch & Listen

Live from Spark 2026: AI, Play and the Human in the Loop (28 minute listen)

Recorded at Umbraco Spark in Bristol, Emma, Laura, Lotte, and AI engineer Phil Whittaker discuss playful learning, returning to work amid AI changes, renewed motivation for senior developers, and why augmentation is more valuable than automation, with a lively audience.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #umbracospark ]

umbraCoffee - Spring Sips (51 minute watch)

In this episode of umbraCoffee, hosts Marcin and Callum, along with guest Warren Buckley, discuss AI's impact on developers, recent Umbraco updates, and community collaboration. They highlight features like Content Guard, AI integration, and security improvements, emphasizing the importance of engaging young developers in the Umbraco ecosystem.

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #umbracoffee ]

Early concepts for Reuse Content of Blocks (35 minute watch)

The upcoming feature in Umbraco CMS, titled "Reuse Content of Blocks," aims to enhance content management by allowing users to create reusable content elements stored in an element library. This will enable consistent updates across multiple documents, simplifying content management while maintaining flexibility for local customizations.

[ #umbracocms ]

Events

UmbLeeds: AI Hackathon - Exploring AI Tools in Umbraco

2026-04-02 from 18:30 to 20:30 (Europe/London) - MSQ DX - Leeds Office, 28 Sovereign Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, GB

[ #ai ] [ #hackathons ]

Brisbane Umbraco Meetup

2026-04-08 from 18:00 to 20:00 (Australia/Brisbane) - Zeroseven, 340 Adelaide St, Brisbane City, AU

Umbraco Community Hour - Virtual Meetup

2026-04-08 from 13:00 to 14:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) - Online

[ #virtual ]

Packages

V17 of IconPicker has been released

- Add an sprite containing all the SVG's
- Pick these in the backoffice
- Render them as SVG in the frontend, so you can apply styles and effects!

Umbraco.Community.TipTap.MarkdownImport

Adds a Paste Markdown action to the Umbraco TipTap Rich Text Editor

[ #markdown ] [ #rte ]

uTPro.Feature.FileManager

A powerful file management dashboard for Umbraco 16+ backoffice

Phases.Umbraco.Community.Tiptap.Rte.Emoji

Adds a simple emoji picker to the Umbraco TipTap Rich Text Editor

[ #rte ]

SplatDev.Umbraco.Plugins.Yaml2Schema

A declarative, Infrastructure-as-Code style plugin for Umbraco 17 that enables programmatic creation of DataTypes, DocumentTypes, Templates, and Content from a YAML configuration file

[ #infrastructure ]

Umbraco.Community.EnvironmentIndicator

Makes Umbraco backoffice environments stand out with colored favicons and environment name badges in the header.

[ #backoffice ]

Umbraco.Community.DataTypeCleanup

Clean up orphan data types, merge duplicates, and organize data types into folders by editor.

Content Lock 17.1.0 - aka the WebRTC Audio Calling edition

Adds audio calling to other logged in users of the backoffice with nothing to install

Umbraco.Community.PropertyInfo

Adds a convenient modal that displays detailed information about individual Umbraco properties

uTPro.Feature.AuditLog

Audit Log viewer dashboard for Umbraco 16+ backoffice

Modgift.Umbraco.CronInput

A property editor for Umbraco that provides a cron expression input with real-time human-readable descriptions

[ #propertyeditors ]

Umbraco.Community.UpDoc

Create Umbraco documents from external sources (PDF, web pages, markdown) using configurable extraction workflows with rule-based field mapping

[ #automation ]

Social

Merchello v17 Starter Site Template now available

[ #starterkits ]

AI agent workflows sneak peek

[ ] [ #ai ] [ #automation ]

Finding my Spark through Community

[ #umbracospark ]

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