Issue No 123
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!
Issue 122 :: November 2025
Issue 121 :: October 2025
Stay Plugged in to the Community!
A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.
Umbraco Power Tools
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
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 packageContentment 6.0.0 is here!
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 notesDownload the package
More efficient integration tests with Umbraco
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!
Read the blog postDev Tip: Umbraco Cloud storage cost savings
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!
Watch the video