2025-11-12
📰 Umbracokalaset 2025 - Swedish Umbraco Festival
Owain Jones reflects on his experience at Umbracokalaset 2025 in Stockholm, highlighting the warmth of the Umbraco community and the positive reception of his talk on enhancing content editor experiences. He expresses gratitude to Aspire Systems for their support and encourages others to share their knowledge at conferences for personal growth and community connection.
2025-07-02
📰 Codegarden 2025 & MVP Summit
Owain Jones reflects on his experience at Codegarden 2025, celebrating its 20th anniversary. He highlights engaging discussions at the MVP Summit, insightful talks, and community activities, including a scavenger hunt and social events. Jones expresses gratitude for receiving the Umbraco MVP award for the fifth time, emphasizing the community's warmth and camaraderie.
2025-06-04
📰 How to fix: "Umbraco.Templates could not be installed, the package does not exist"
Owain Jones shares their experience setting up a new laptop and configuring a development environment. He encountered an error when trying to install the Umbraco.Templates package, which stemmed from not having nuget.org set as a source. After adding it, the issue was resolved, prompting the author to document the solution for others.
2025-04-30
📰 Easter 2025: A Packed Week of Umbraco Meetups and Conferences
During Easter, Owain Jones enjoyed a relaxing break filled with Umbraco meetups and conferences. Highlights included discussions on new features, a talk on migrating websites from Umbraco 8 to 13, and attending the DDD South West conference with an impressive lineup of speakers. The events fostered community engagement and learning.
2025-02-26
📰 Automatically Adding Member Groups to Umbraco Public Access
In a recent project, Owain Jones implemented middleware in Umbraco to streamline Public Access Restrictions for frontend Members, automatically including an "Administrators" group in access settings. This solution alleviates the burden on content editors to manually add the group each time, enhancing efficiency in managing user-generated content.