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Regularly blogging about Umbraco, CSS, digital sustainability and more!
ContentAudit: first class site crawling and SEO auditing for Umbraco
ContentAudit is my new package that enables first class site crawling and SEO auditing inside Umbraco.
Keeping Sessions Alive in Umbraco with Third-Party Payment Providers
Integrating with third-party payment providers in Umbraco comes with a few unique challenges, particularly around session persistence. For instance, when users complete a transaction and return to the site, they often find their session data gone. This disrupts the user flow and could easily lead to lost conversions.
Codegarden 2024
Reflecting on my third year as a Codegarden attendee and a first time speaker
umbracodegen
I went down a bit of an Umbraco Bellissima rabbit hole this weekend and built a little tool for myself that I wanted to open source - introducing umbracodegen!
Generating a TypeScript OpenAPI client from Umbraco's Content Delivery API
I recently migrated this site to use Umbraco's Content Delivery API as part of an Astro site, and wanted to generate a TypeScript client to use to pull content.
Green Code: A Blueprint for Eco-Friendly Websites
In 2023 I was honoured to be accepted to write for 24 Days about my favourite topic... sustainability
I'm a 2023 Umbraco MVP!
The cat is out of the bag now and I can announce that I’ve been named an Umbraco MVP for 2023!
RazorViewEngine custom search paths for Umbraco grid partial views
I have been trying to add some new functionality to my BlockPreview package to remove some magic strings...
Using multidimensional arrays in C#
In a recent project with a client, we were presented with this matrix for generating a score based on two different parameters.
Adding spell check to Examine search in Umbraco 8
There is an excellent blog post by Lars-Erik Aabech on how to build a spell checker for search in Umbraco 7, and I have been looking for a way to update it for v8.
URL rewriting in Umbraco 8 — Part 2
A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about using IUrlProvider in Umbraco 8 to generate custom URLs for blog posts.
Umbraco Unicore first impressions
On Thursday 3rd September, Umbraco HQ announced the first alpha of Unicore, Umbraco v8 running on .NET Core!
URL rewriting in Umbraco 8
I recently migrated a website from WordPress to Umbraco and was keen to keep some of the great SEO work driving traffic into the site.
Dark Mode and CSS Media Queries
Dark mode is all the rage these days.