Every filter, sort option, and page of results is a real URL as far as a crawler is concerned, and they combine fast. Paul tells us about a bandwidth spike he spent weeks blaming on bots before realizing his own search feature had handed every crawler a map to an infinite crawl space, then shows us the small fix that solved it.
Almost all of us at one point or another have created a color picker or theme picker for Umbraco when the built-in one won't handle what we need. Today Paul shows us how he builds one, using a custom type built using the Data List property editor in Contentment.
One of the many great things about the Umbraco community is the packages and tools folks make to make the Friendly CMS even friendlier! But sometimes there's too many good packages you want to install. If only there was a way to do it quicker. Well now there is, as Paul walks us through using his Package Script Writer, which auto-generates scripts for you to drop into the command line to install Umbraco like a pro!
The best Umbraco packages are ones that make your life easier as a developer and an editor. Lee Kelleher's Contentment is one such package that offers a collection of data editors. For Paul Seal, the editor that stood out was the Data List, which he demonstrates by creating an Author Picker.
Paul walks us through five different ways of rendering reusable ModelsBuilder content, the pros and cons of each method, and how to do each one. You may already have a preference, but now you'll be able to recognize someone else's method if you inherit a project!
