When it comes to sustainability, it’s all well and good building an amazing website where the templates are well optimised, minimising the download size of images, css and javascript that are baked in. But if a content editor then subsequently adds in actual content filled with huge and poorly optimised images, the good work can
As part of something I’m working on for a future blog post/technical demo, today I had the need to implement some custom Property Value Converters in Umbraco 13 to allow me to modify the HTML from them in one place. To do so I had to implement converters for both the Umbraco Markdown editor and
If you’ve been in any way involved in working with Umbraco in recent years you’ll have heard about the major overhaul to the back office that was coming in Umbraco 14, finally released at the very end of May. With a total rebuild from the ground up using all new web component technologies rather than
Having completed all of the underlying code for the backend of the site, first upgrading Umbraco and moving the database, before moving on to making the site’s custom functionality cross-platform compatible at the server side, attention moved now to the frontend of the site. When it comes to the site rendering, the differences between Umbraco
It’s time for the second part of the series taking a look at the recent upgrade of my TV Whirl site from Umbraco 10 to 13, as well as moving it all from Windows to Linux. In the first part I focused on getting the core database and Umbraco upgrade itself out of the way,
Regular readers may remember back in 2022 I moved my personal project site TV Whirl first from 7 to 9, then shortly follwed on to Umbraco 10 on .net 6.0, which was then the Long Term Support release of the CMS (though I technically didn’t stick truly to the LTS releases as I never upgraded
(And other such clickbaity titles) For a long time I’ve actually ran my personal Umbraco sites off an inhouse server running off a tiny Intel NUC box, designed to be as energy efficient as possible. Over time with the Umbraco 7 site getting more and more bogged down with increasing node counts and complexity, I
Ever since we got such an enticing overview of it at Umbraco Spark in Bristol back in early 2020, I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the progress of the .net core version of Umbraco. I originally played about with a fresh project on the first Alpha release when it dropped late last year just
Hello! Hello, is there anyone there? Yes, I have to admit I completely forgot all about this place. Indeed it was an impromptu discussion around blogging with a fellow dev whilst en route to Bristol on Thursday night that actually reminded me I even still have this blog. As the reason for the journey South
Some of you may remember a post a long time ago (okay, it’s only about 4 posts back so it’s not that hard to scroll back) where I extolled the virtues of Cloudflare. At the risk of sounding like a fanboy, as there are other solutions available, this is a bit of a followup to
