Matt Bliss
Umbraco old-timer, Umbraco Master, CMS Advisory Board, Umbraco Cloud Advisory Board
2025-02-19
📰 Automatic Date and Time Ordered Content in the Umbraco Backoffic
Matt Bliss discusses automating the sorting of articles in the Umbraco back-office by their publish dates. He outlines a method using Notification Handlers to set the SortOrder property based on timestamps, ensuring recent articles appear first. Additionally, he describes how to prevent manual reordering of articles in the UI.
2025-01-15
📰 Variable aspect-ratio dynamic image cropping with Umbraco 15
Matt Bliss discusses enhancing the dynamic cropping of CSS background images in web design. He critiques the standard centered cropping method, which often misrepresents images, and proposes using Umbraco's focal point feature to allow content editors to specify image positioning. This method improves control over image display in variable aspect ratio containers.