In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a sitemap.xml file within Umbraco 8. I'm assuming most people understand the benefits of sitemap XML. Introduced by Google in 2005, sitemap.xml ensures that all the content within your website is indexe...
In this guide, you will learn how to install Umbraco 8 and configure your Windows PC to maximize productivity when building a new website. This first point of call is to ensure you have all the software to host a website installed and configured cor...
Within the tutorial, you will learn how to get a list of scheduled pages that are ready to be published using Umbraco CMS version 8. You may assume that getting a list of scheduled tasks is straight-forward, however, Umbraco does not provide an easy...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a very simple JSON API using Umbraco 8. you will learn a simple way to return data. You will also learn about to determine the APIs URL. Returning JSON is the pretty much the standard way of returning...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to restrict page within Umbraco CMS. If you need to create a members-only area then the main requirement will be to only allow certain people access to certain pages. The good news is that restricting a page can b...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to give content editors the power to create a 301 re-directs within Umbraco 8. 301 redirects are an essential tool in terms of os SEO. a 301 re-direct will tell a search engine that a page with one URL has now ...
In this tutorial, you will learn about the new way to hook into the Umbraco events handling pipeline. It is very common that some functionality will require you to perform some additional actions, like adding some validation to a page before it is a...
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 ...
