Issue N^o 127

Umbraco Favourites is an awesome editor experience extension for the backoffice! Gregory, Jack, Luke, and Sam have all worked hard to let editors pin and quickly navigate to their most-used content items! Plus, rather than local storage, favourites are stored per-user in the database and accessible via a dedicated sidebar panel in the Content section so no matter what computer you're editing from, your favourites are ready for you.

AI infers what your organization does from what it reads on your website and, yes, it reads ALL of your content, which means that keeping your site consistent and on brand is even more difficult than using 'standard SEO procedures', and that's not even considering if you're using AI to write your content. Jason's new package plugs in to Umbraco AI and helps you analyze your content (including some accessibility goodies!) to keep you on track.

Ben responded to Owain's article on if the community has lost it's spark last November, but if you missed it - we did, too! He recently reposted and we caught the article. Ben starts off by cheekily admitting the title is a bit misleading and that the problem isn't with Umbraco OR the community. His thoughtful insights were helpful to us - we bet they are to you, too!

Umbraco 17 already has the ability to hide properties from certain levels of editors, but what if you want to hide entire parts of the tree, tabs, or sections? These kind of requirements are mandatory for some clients, but it's not as easy to implement as it sounds! Ambert's fancy little package gives you minute control over all these areas.

Paul's cheeky little article will teach you how to bypass Umbraco Cloud's Basic Authentication 😱 for specific preview URLs using the built-in shared secret feature and a lightweight ASP.NET middleware. Don't stress - you won't expose the rest of your staging site!