Søren Kottal

📰 Make your own Umbraco Starter Kit without making a Starter Kit

In his article, Søren Kottal highlights the challenges of maintaining a Starter Kit for Umbraco projects, including cumbersome manual processes and conflicts with deployment tools. To address these issues, he introduces the Schemex Exporter and Importer packages, which automate schema generation and facilitate project setup, streamlining the development process.

📰 Server-side registering of Package Manifest in Umbraco 14

In Umbraco 14, package registration has shifted to a frontend-only approach, requiring a static umbraco-package.json file in the App_Plugins folder. For backend-only packages, developers can use the new IManifestReader interface to register packages in C#. Additionally, package manifests can now contribute to telemetry data for better insights.

📰 Remote Image Provider for ImageSharp

Søren Kottal discusses the challenge of integrating third-party images on websites and the lack of control over their dimensions, formats, and availability. They highlight their solution using Umbraco and ImageSharp to gain control over third-party images by creating a provider for ImageSharp to download and manipulate external images. They offer the provider on NuGet and the Umbraco Marketplace for easy use.

📰 4 notable new features in Full Text Search for Umbraco

Umbraco's Full Text Search version 4.0.0 brings bugfixes, performance improvements, and new languages. Notable features include appsettings.json configuration, HttpClient rendering, non-content search, and caching notifications.

🐘 Doc Type Grid Editor resurrected from the dead just for Halloween

💬 FullTextSearch 4.0.0 close to release