Issue No 103

Ten Commandments for Building a Website Using a CMS

by Jen Wolke

As web professionals, we try to follow best practices in every aspect of our trade. Jen's experience with CMSes have led her to develop the best practices for building with them, which she's summarized in ten commandments for us to follow.

Automatically Creating Thumbnail PDFs in Umbraco

by Aaron Sadler

Nothing's better than a tool that helps you automatically accomplish a tedious chore, like creating thumbnails for all those pesky PDFs. Which is why it's great that Aaron's here today to show us how to automate that for the Umbraco Backoffice with three free packages and some helpful code.

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Around the Web

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

Step-by-Step: Keycloak Authentication for Umbraco Backoffice

credit: Robert Biaty

We always love to see integrations between open source and open source! Robert introduces us to a step by step integration using Keycloak for your backoffice login, giving you both flexibility and security for your users!

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Maintenance Manager for v14

credit: Kevin Jump

Kevn (and Henry) Jump give us the opportunity to keep our Umbraco site smooth during updates with the Maintenance Mode package (for Umbraco 14!). Deploy with less stress with this fancy new package!

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How to add code samples to an Umbraco website

credit: Mike Masey

Code samples are something we highlight on Skrift all the time, so we're always interested in seeing other folks' clever solutions for including them in their front-end displays as well! Mike's article takes you through adding code snippet functionality to your TinyMCE editor so you can share all your wonderful knowledge right on your Umbraco instance!

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Limit an Umbraco Tag Picker

credit: Owain Williams

Owain shares a clever trick to limit Umbraco's Tag Picker to just one tag, enhancing editor control. Check out his quick guide and help your content managers to have an excellent experience!

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Umbraco Community Runtime Validators

credit: Warren Buckley

Warren introduces us to the new Umbraco Community Runtime Validators package, which helps enable you to have the most optimized production setup! A collaborative effort with Gibe Digital, this tool checks environment configurations, preventing boot issues with detailed error insights!

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