In this tutorial you will learn about a plug-in you can use to help you provide left-to-right support to a Javascript based website. Providing mutti-language support in a site used to be a challenge. Different languages can have different character...
In this tutorial, you will learn a few techniques that will allow you to perform a simple search within Umbraco 8. Out-of-the-box, Umbraco uses the Lucene search index. Every-time you save or modify a page within Umbraco the search index is updated...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to correctly register custom routes within Umbraco 8. It is also possible to create your own custom routes. Pre 8 Umbraco used the standard .NET approach to route handling was done within the global.ascx. First...
Umbraco 8 was released in mid-2019. With Umbraco 8 came a host of new functionality, the three biggest new business features, language variants, content apps, and infinite editing. Asides from business features, Umbraco 8 also introduced some prett...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to retrieve a CMS page in code using Umbraco 8 and above. Umbraco 8 introduced a big change in the APIs. Gone are the days of UmbracoContext. API access is now done with constructor injection. This article wil...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use dependency injection with Umbraco 8. In Umbraco v8 the whole API model moved away from the older approach a lot of CMS systems used, a global singleton based static helper like this:
To a more testable ...
This post is part two in the series about my experience upgrading this website from Umbraco 7.5 to Umbraco 8.1. The focus of this tutorial is code. In the first part of this series, I covered the process and the pains I felt upgrading my database. ...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to enable the test code coverage functionality into your React.js application. Enabling code coverage into the build is very powerful as it ensures that tests are included as new code is written. Jest version 21...
In this article, I discuss my recent experience of upgrading this website from Umbraco 7 to Umbraco 8. I resisted upgrading to Umbraco 8 for a long time as I knew it was going to be painful, which it definitely was. In the end, it took me 10 solid ...
Recently, I switched jondjones.com web-hosting from Azure to MyASP.NET. In this tutorial, I will discuss the reasons why I did this. The benefits of using Azure compared to normal shared hosting. If you are building a Umbraco website and are strug...
Recently, I move my Umbraco 8 websites web-hosting from Azure to a cheaper alternative (you can see the reasons in this post). The first time I tried to deploy my website to my new hosting, it failed with this error:
After a lot of head-scratch...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to debug and test that the analytics event your fire into the datalayer are being triggered correctly. As some quick-background, to get tag manager to work you add the correct script to your webpage. To pass dat...
