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Fully Automating Umbraco v17 Backoffice with AI + Umbraco MCP

by Bishal Tim

With Umbraco MCP, we can use AI to automate the repetitive and boring tasks in Umbraco Development. Bishal showing us how to do so to remove hours of tedium in a consistent and clean way!

Setting Up Umbraco With Umbraco Commerce

by Shelly Chauhan

Looking to add Umbraco Commerce to your website, and wanting to know where to start? Shelly is here for you, taking us step-by-step through setting up and configuring a basic e-commerce site with this quick, easy to follow guide!

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Umbraco in the City: Manchester

Umbraco in the City: Manchester

07 November 2025

Manchester, UK

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Hackathons

Clerkswell Charity Hackathon

28 November 2025

Shoreditch, UK

Website

What to expect

DK Festival

DK Festival

11 December 2025

Aarhus, Denmark

Website

Umbraco Spark

Umbraco Spark

20 March 2026

Bristol, UK

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CODECABIN

CODECABIN: US Edition

28-31 March 2026

Gleneagle, CO, USA

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Around the Web

A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.

Umbraco Power Tools

credit: Sebastiaan Janssen

Check out this spiffy plugin for Firefox and Chrome(ium). You can easily toggle back to your admin panel on an Umbraco site as well as stay up to date with recent forum posts, social posts from the community, and upcoming events in the calendar right in your favorite personalized browser!

Download for Chrome(ium)
Download for Firefox

Umbraco.Community.IconPicker

credit: Ambert Van Unen

Congratulate Ambert on his first Umbraco package! 👏 While Icon Picker is only available in v13 right now, he's already working on a v17 version. If you've been wishing for an icon picker that runs off your own SVG sprites, then your wish has been granted. Give it a peek!

Download the package

Contentment 6.0.0 is here!

credit: Contentment

Finally, the package we've all been waiting for in the new new backoffice - Contentment! While there have been alphas and betas roaming around for a while now, it has finally been officially released and is compatible with Umbraco 17. If you've been thinking you should wait to upgrade until this package is complete, now you're good to go!

Read the release notes
Download the package

More efficient integration tests with Umbraco

credit: lars-erik aabech

Lars has created an excellent package that removes the "database and Umbraco instance" per fixture constraint from Umbraco's Integration Test library. He explains his reasoning for it and how it also enables reuse of seeded database snapshots to avoid executing the same setup / seeding over an over per fixture or test!

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Dev Tip: Umbraco Cloud storage cost savings

credit: Callum Whyte

Callum shares his latest dev tip for saving money on your Cloud hosting bill. His video runs you through how to make a a small config change allows media storage to be moved, resulting in savings of over 600% - absolutely worth it!

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