Issue No 122
The Four Causes of Content Debt and How to Fix Them Before Your Next Rebuild
by Nora Lahl
We're all used to thinking about technical debt. But what about content debt? Nora maps out the mess that leads to content debt: outdated content, disorganized assets, bloated taxonomies, no ownership, before handing us a playbook to fix it.
The Umbraco Community Teams Visits: The Outcome of a Successful Open Source Collaboration
by Michaël Latouche
Michaël pulls back the curtain on Umbraco’s Community Teams visit in Odense, with two dense days where open-source ideals met real outcomes: from cross-team problem-solving to docs shipped for v17, all with HQ experts just a desk away.
Issue 121 :: October 2025
Issue 120 :: September 2025
Stay Plugged in to the Community!
A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.
Visualise Document JSON in Umbraco Content section
Have you ever wanted to see the JSON structure of a document without needing to dig into the database? Richard shows us how to add a super cool custom JSON Viewer workspace to the content section of Umbraco 16 so you can inspect the document’s JSON directly in the back-office UI!
Read the blog postMoriyama.RequestProtect 1.3.1
Request Protect, a wonderful .NET Middleware package that has an Umbraco specific implementation, has been updated to include CIDR support for IP whitelisting, letting you customize the access-denied response and giving you control over how your environments stay protected!
Download the packageHeadless - Not Hovedløst
In this thought piece, Kaspar discusses what "going headless" means in Danish and how we can apply that to using Umbraco as a headless platform. How can we approach going headless thoughtfully, taking into consideration performance, security, and some of the incomplete pieces in Umbraco (like translations)?
Read the blog postFriendly Members
Membership can be a bit of a beast to manage, especially if there are a lot with specific workflows. Friendly Members is a swanky new package that adds enhanced membership management to Umbraco 13, including a group viewer, bulk actions (approve/delete-unapproved), status stats, and extendable workflows!
Download the packageHas the Umbraco Community lost it's Spark?
With a very quiet Umbraco Tees day just behind us (sorry, Owain, it was Halloween and I was wearing a giraffe costume), Owain wonders how the community is fairing. Social media is more separated than it used to be with people in different hubs, but the close-knit feel it used to have isn't the same for him. What do you think?
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