Issue No 110
Customizing the Umbraco Tour in a Few Simple Steps!
by Bishal Tim
We've all seen the default Umbraco backoffice tour. But what if we want to add our our touch, like a custom language picker or a unique welcome for new users? In this article, Bishal guides us through customizing the tour to showcase special features, streamline onboarding, and make a user-friendly experience of our own.
How to create custom Umbraco User permissions in Belissima
by Warren Buckley
As Umbraco rolls out the Belissima backoffice, we're presented with exciting opportunities to customize the backoffice to better suit our clients' needs. The prior backoffice's AngularJS required us to get creative with unofficial extensions but now we're given official ways to extend the backoffice, including through Umbraco User Permissions. Warren guides us through these new possibilities, showing how we can leverage them to create more tailored and efficient solutions.
Issue 109 :: September 2024
Issue 108 :: August 2024
A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.
Make your own Umbraco Starter Kit without making a Starter Kit
Starter kits are awesome, but also a complete pain to maintain. Søren understands this all to well, and he shows us a nifty alternative in his recent blog post. Showing off Schemex, which has maintainable schemas to use across projects, he gives us a modern alternative to the classic starter kit concept!
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Accessible Media Picker for v13
Nik's Accessible Media Picker is a delightful little package with an extended media picker property editor. This editor is backwards compatible and extends the standard media picker to add on the ability to manage alt text on the picked media and defined crops, which is really cool!
Check out the packageUmbraco Package of the Month
After the Codegarden award show that displayed many amazing community package, Jeroen realized he hadn't heard of most of them and was inspired to start a monthly blog series showing off awesome community packages. If you want to branch out from your own workflow, then go check out his thorough reviews on what the community is making!
Check out the seriesUmbraco Forms 12+, Custom Field Type
In her new handy guide, Busra walks us through how to create custom fields for Umbraco forms in your Umbraco 12+ project! Her example stores an address look-up, showing a somewhat complex but common use-case for forms. It's sure to spark your imagination for what you can create with custom field types!
Read the blog postClient Drawer for Umbraco 13
Andy's new client drawer package is a lovely tool that creates a configurable sidebar tucked away in the backoffice header. In here, you can store environment information, the assembly version, and a client friendly change log. This tool is super handy and especially great if you have many sites on a shared platform!
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