Issue No 121
Are You Still Thinking?
by Emma Garland
Emma looks at how AI is reshaping coding culture from hand-crafted precision to hyperproduction and reminds us that even in an automated world, good work still depends on clarity, care, and conscience.
Client Side Backoffice Extensions With Server Data
by Andy Butland
Moving Umbraco’s Backoffice customization to the client side means learning new patterns — and sometimes, new languages. Andy explores how to handle one of the trickier parts: accessing server data from your extensions. His example shows a clean approach using the Management API.
Issue 120 :: September 2025
Issue 119 :: August 2025
Stay Plugged in to the Community!
A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.
SBD Content Insights
Content status and lifecycle can be very mysterious! Szabolcs is new to Umbraco and has released an amazing new package that helps you visualize content metrics — such as document-counts by type or status, user contributions, and the lifecycle/quality of content. Go check it out, and h5yr, Szabolcs!
View on GitHubHow to Sync NuGet and Umbraco Package versions automatically in Umbraco 14+
For a package, there are 2 versions that matter: the NuGet package and the Umbraco extension that displays in the backoffice. Keeping these the same helps you understand the version right from the backoffice and avoid confusion. How do you sync them? Luuk knows and he's sharing!
Read the blog postMigrating extensions from Umbraco 13 to 17
With the next LTS release around the corner (November 27) and the beta already out as of last week, it's time to think about upgrading your backoffice extensions from Angular JS to web components. This seems daunting but Kenn takes us through some repeatable steps that will get us through without all the headaches.
Read the blog postExploring GitMCP with Umbraco Repositories
Johan shows us how we can use GitMCP - which is built into GitHub - to connect to Umbraco repositories and ask questions that target specific codebases. This can be really useful when you're trying to find something from the documentation and using the core code repository!
Read the blog postuSync for Umbraco CSP Manager
In an effort to uSync all the things, one of our favorite packages - Matt's CSP Manager - now allows you to uSync your CSP settings between different environments automagically. Keeping your site secure was never easier!
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