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.

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

Custom Sections & Trees in Umbraco 14

credit: Yari Marien

Creating custom sections and trees in Umbraco 14 is very different than how we've done it in previous versions. Yari has a pair of excellent new articles to get you going with your own custom code in the new backoffice!

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Read the custom trees post

Building a GitHub Discussions Powered Blog

credit: Matt Brailsford

Matt is always doing cool things, and his new GitHub discussions powered blog is no exception. With the combine power of Astro and GitHub's GraphQL Api, you can get up and going with a nifty blog that is statically generated and powered right through GitHub.

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Learning TDD by doing: An SPA content finder for Umbraco

credit: Dennis Heutinck

Dennis has been teaching himself test driven development (TDD), starting with creating an SPA ContentFinder in Umbraco! He shares his experiences and what he's learned with us in his new series, so you should check it out if you want an Umbraco-friendly introduction to TDD!

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How to Remove Any Examine Index in Umbraco

credit: Piotr Bach credit: Wojciech Tengler

There are reasons you may want to remove your indexes in Umbraco - if you're not using them and want improved site performance is a great example! Piotr & Wojciech take us through the steps of removing our indexes when we just don't need them.

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Iconic for Umbraco 14

credit: Mario

Iconic is an excellent package to add icon pickers into your backoffice and it now has it's first release available for Umbraco 14! Go give it a download, try it out, and send feedback back on this awesome tool.

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