I am working on a project, which features a big website with a lot of people (developers, quality engineers, deployment engineers and content editors) working on it. The site has multiple environments, and each of the environments is distributed among several servers. The pros of continuous integration for such a Read more…
Umbraco’s Public Access is a great feature, but it is not very suitable in some cases. For example if you are working on a site with multiple environments like Development, Staging and Production, you might find some obstacles: The Public Access settings are stored in ~/App_Data/access.config and not in the Read more…
When you develop an Umbraco website with custom controller you might need a way to specify custom error pages. For example a 404 or 500 page that can be easily displayed as an action result. In my case I have multiple site roots and each site has its own error Read more…
This is another post, which uses Umbraco’s Request Pipeline to customize the backoffice – see my other post Using Umbraco’s Request Pipeline to Conceal Nodes. In some cases it is very useful to be able to use folders in Umbraco’s backoffice to group content pages without affecting the URL – I Read more…
The following tutorial will show you how to create an RSS Feed in an MVC installation of Umbraco. Using this approach you won’t need to create a template for the page and a macro as in the standard implementation: Setting Up an RSS Feed Things You Will Need A document Read more…
With its 6.1 release, Umbraco got some new API’s, which allow developers to tap in the logic that parses the URLs and retrieves content nodes – the Request Pipeline. Recenlty I had a use case where I needed to conceal nodes from being rendered. Consider the following sample site structure: Read more…
I had some trouble parsing the date strings created by Umbraco’s Date Picker to a System.DateTime object. Following is a short snippet, which does the trick: Note that content is an IPublishedContent object.
While working on an Umbraco project, I needed to add a feature, which allowed editors to log in the backoffice using accounts from Active Directory. The requirement was to allow only editors who belong to certain groups in the AD. The following post from our.umbraco.org contains an example on how Read more…