Issue No 133
We Checked 22 Million Company Records for Umbraco, and Oh, Boy
by Sotiris Filippidis
Sotiris and his team ran an Umbraco checker across 22 million company records to find out how many sites run Umbraco, what version, and whether they’re still alive. The result: about 25,000 verified sites, and a startling 39% still on v7 or v8. He digs into what that says about how we really upgrade.
Photography of the Web
by Ben Szymanski
What if we framed web development the way photographers frame a shot? Ben walks us through hypermedia as exactly that: the browser as camera, Umbraco as the studio where you stage the world, with HTMX and surface controllers doing the work.
Issue 132 :: October 2026
Issue 131 :: September 2026
A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.
Umbraco Features with Claude Worktrees
Running several Claude Code sessions on one Umbraco site? Owain found the catch: worktrees isolate your code, but not your database. His PowerShell hook gives every worktree its own copy of the dev database, shared media and its own ports, then tidies up after itself!
Read the blog postUmbraco testing examples now also for Umbraco 18
Dennis's automated testing examples repo now supports Umbraco 18! The big change: the end-to-end tests have moved from C# to TypeScript with Playwright, and the unit test fakes are updated for properties moving to IPublishedElement. A great reference if you're testing on 18!
Read the blog postCascading Country and Location Dropdowns in Umbraco Forms
Need each Umbraco Forms enquiry to reach the right office? Justin builds a location dropdown that filters by country and emails each location's own contacts, all from one workflow and without exposing addresses in the page source. A custom hidden field does the clever bit!
Read the blog postWhoIsHere for Umbraco 18
Ever saved over a colleague's edits? Lee's WhoIsHere shows, right on the document edit screen, who else has the same document open and which field they're in. It's a soft lock: it warns you when someone saves but never blocks you. Out now for Umbraco 18!
Check out the packageThree Years of UMB.FYI, and a Second Pulse Check
UMB.FYI turned three, and Matt celebrated with a second Pulse Check on the Umbraco ecosystem. Did last year's predictions hold up? How much has the package scene really grown, and what's topping the trending tags? His post and full report have the answers, plus a watchlist for the year ahead!
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