Issue No 120

MCP Will Change The CMS Landscape

by Joe Kepley

What is MCP, and why are we hearing about it everywhere? Joe explains to us what this 'USB-C cable for LLMs' actually is, how it transforms AI from mere chatbots to agents, and how we can use it to make CMS work faster and easier.

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Around the Web

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

Learning TDD by doing: Is Umbraco's management API the answer to acceptance testing?

credit: Dennis Heutinck

Dennis has been pondering how to handle acceptance testing in Umbraco for some time. He takes us through the difficulties, why the management API may make this doable, and even a prototype as to what this could look like. Give it a read!

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Demystifying Umbraco Models Builder generated version attribute

credit: James Carter

Have you ever wondered where the Umbraco version numbers come from in your ModelsBuilder files - and more importantly, if you can turn them off? James knows there's plenty of reasons that you may not want to report the version, such as scaring someone when a PR is made with "changes" to hundreds of files!

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Tailored indexing for Umbraco Search

credit: Kenn Jacobsen

We all know how hard Kenn has been working on Umbraco search, and if you caught him in the last DevRel Deep Dive you may be wanting some of those code snippets he demonstrated. Get them all, and written information to help you parse customizing your indexing in new search, in his recent post!

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Umbraco property storage cheat sheet

credit: Joe Glombek

Janae's Note: I miss the days of Umbraco cheatsheets. When I was working in v6 I had a laminated print-out (wow that sounds old) of the Razor Cheetsheat taped to the wall behind my desk. It saved me so much pain. And here Joe is, ready to help us fully understand our data with an incredible cheatsheet explaining what our data looks like on the database layer - go give it a look!

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Umbraco MCP Quickstart: Setup in 5 Minutes (with Real Examples)

credit: jason prothero

As we know, there's tons of buzz over MCPs right now, but how easy is it really get set up with the Umbraco MCP? Jason takes us through the process in five minutes, getting you going as fast as lightning (basically)!

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