Issue No 132
I built an entire desktop app so my friend would stop swearing
by Sebastian Dammark
Watching his designer friend swear his way through installing Umbraco, Sebastian could have written a shell script. Instead he built Umbreasy, a desktop app that creates and manages local Umbraco installs with no terminal in sight.
Giving an Umbraco package its own MCP server
by Dean Leigh
Dean uses Umbraco's Developer MCP Server constantly, but it doesn't reach his own package, UpDoc. So he built one. He walks us through giving an Umbraco package its own MCP server, step by step all the way through to shipping a working tool an agent can call with a single command.
Issue 131 :: September 2026
Issue 130 :: August 2026
Stay Plugged in to the Community!
A curated collection of Umbraco and industry related tools, tips, tricks, and tutorials from around the web.
Introducing Umbraco.Community.PropertyNavigator
When Nathaniel moved a site to v17, he went looking for v13's handy jump-to-field dropdown and found it gone, so he built it back! Click the Content view, type to filter, and the editor scrolls right to the field and highlights it. No more scrolling through tabs on content-heavy nodes!
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Introducing RazorSearch for Umbraco
Søren's new RazorSearch renders your published pages and indexes the text visitors actually see, blocks and all, with titles and headings weighted higher. It's built on the new Umbraco Search ahead of Umbraco 19, and it's the next chapter after his Full Text Search package!
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The Umbraco MCP Benchmark: eleven AI models build the same blog
Kaspar had 11 AI models build the same Umbraco 18 blog through the Umbraco MCP server, 39 times over, and graded every result. The winners won't shock you, but the little Haiku that could (or mostly couldn't) steals the show with a gloriously confident trail of 404s!
Read the blog postSmidge 5 is out
Shannon's bundling and minification library has gone up a whole major - to 5! It's now on .NET 10 with NUglify as the only minifier. He also squashed a sneaky bug that could corrupt bundle files in production, and for most sites upgrading is just a little cleanup and a rebuild!
Read the blog postMost Automation Is a Decision, Not a Conversation
Most AI steps in an automation aren't generating anything, they're deciding something. Matt makes the case for small, typed decision models that are faster, cheaper, and always return a clean answer, plus a peek at experimental decision actions for Umbraco AI and Umbraco Automate!
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