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Almost every content page in your website will have one richtext property for adding rich content for the page. This allows you to add Macros so you can render dynamic content inside page content at custom places in the page itself. ...read more

There is no option for hiding a property in Umbraco. Simply, when you define a property for document type, it is assumed that you are going to use it. However, sometime you need to hide it for some specific condition, like level of document in a tree, or document type which might inherits some property which you do not want to use in inherited document type...read more

Let's say you have multiple websites with different domains in one Umbraco instance. All websites will use the same media, but the catch is how will it serve them. For example the same image will be served to a browser with two different paths like the following: ...read more

You probably had to make some Ajax call in your Umbraco website. This is really easy in versions star6ting from version six and above...read more

Apparently IE8 and older versions of IE browsers do not support JQuery onchange event for checkboxes and radio buttons. If you are using this for handling this event, your script will fail, because these events will not be fired on IE8 or older IE. Instead of this you can add handler for onclick event which works fine in pretty much any browser. ...read more

Microsoft made is easy to detect whether request to your web application is coming from mobile device or not by adding a property to Request class. Usage of this is Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice. This works pretty fine for most of mobile devices, but this property is based on list of mobile browsers which is configured in .NET framework itself. ...read more

This is a class I used few years back for some image manipulation in C#. Over the years, I was adding more methods and code snippets I needed and some stuff I found on Internet, so it grow to a useful collection of Bitmap manipulation methods...read more

Very often you need to store some settings in your configuration. Web.config files are designed for that but there are two things I found very annoying: ...read more

There are two properties which are not related directly to page content which are always useful to have on your document type which represent page on your website. 1. Hide in navigation ...read more

You probably often had to add some additional ptoperties to a media type. It is all fine untill you have to keep native media type and create inherited one with additional properties. Everything is fine untill you try to do drag and drop upload of mutiple files...read more

It probably happend you often that you need to add image cropper to a page or custom media type. Right after you upload image cropper property does not generate cropped image file. You would have to save the page/media once againg, so that image cropper is initialized and cropped files are generated. ...read more

I was always vondering what is Content Channel tab in uses properties section used for. What ever I set in that tab for my admin user, nothing happends...read more

So you got a new requirement for the website you worked on ages ago. You try to login to Umbraco but your password is not correct...read more

Content Delivery Network or CDN is really usefull for loading JQuery and especially JQuery UI since it is pretty big script file. They are very ofter reliable, fast and since they can be used on other sites, they might be alrady cached in clients browser if he visited some website which uses the same CDN for JQuery or JQuery UI. There are a lot of CDN providers outhere, but two most common are for sure: ...read more

Google have recently decided to change the way you can fetch profile image. Good old building of image URL is not supported anymore after Google has applied security policy. In good old, but unfortunately deprecated approach you only needed profile id to build a URL for fetching Google+ profile image like the following: ...read more