Issue No 125

Building An Umbraco Property Editor With Vite

by Nathaniel Grantham-Knight

Looking to build a custom property editor in Umbraco 17 for the first time? So was Nathaniel, who documented the process step-by-step, making it less painful for the rest of us in the process.

Web Development and Ultrarunning Have More in Common Than You Might Think

by Tim Payne

What does ultrarunning 100 mile marathons and web development have in common? According to Tim, there's a lot more than you'd think, as he walks us through lessons he's learned from both. And a bit about snacks.

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Around the Web

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

DotSee.Discipline for v17

credit: Dotsee.Discipline

If you haven't checked out this incredible package before, we want to remind you that it has an incredible amount of useful tools such as setting up nodes upon publishing, restricting them, protecting from deletion, creating virtual ones, and toggling the display of variants for languages. But now the v17 package also comes with generating AI summaries and setting up property versions when string or RTE values change. It's more powerful than ever, so go look!

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Automatically Filter Content Delivery API Content

credit: richard soeteman

Filtering data is incredibly important in APIs so that we can narrow down to exactly what we need, but we don't want to have to do it on every request. Richard shows us how he solved this problem in his recent blog post, taking us through a solution where you automagically filter without applying it every time!

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A Practical Guide to SVGs in Umbraco

credit: Matthew Wise

Umbraco may have out of the box SVG support, but Matthew knows that it can be leveled up, so he did just that! In his article, he shows you how to add inline CSS control and better security controls for your SVG uploads. Check out his thorough blog post for the how and why as well as the full notification handler code!

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Member Lookup, Fallbacks, and Power Sort!

credit: Owain Williams

Owain has been exceptionally productive recently with a huge list of packages for your enjoyment - Spark must have been very inspiring! Check out UFMMemberLookup to display member picker data, UFMFallbacks to get fallback values from Umbraco Flavored Markdown, and finally Power Sort, which was done with Harrie Mayhem - it's incredibly awesome and gives you a dedicated dashboard for sorting!

Check out Member Lookup
Check out Fallbacks
Check out Power Sort

MediaInfo and Polls for v17

credit: Huw Reddick

In case you missed it, Huw has released some of his most umbazing packages for Umbraco 17 and they are definitely worth checking out. Media Info displays all of the Exif Info from your media items right in the backoffice - super useful! Meanwhile, polls let you add a poll to your site with custom actions to manage them and review results - great for getting user input!

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