Where to find the Umbraco community in 2026
A practical guide to Umbraco news, technical help, community blogs, meetups and conferences after the retirement of Our Umbraco.
If you have worked with Umbraco for a while, typing our.umbraco.com probably still feels natural. For years, it was the place to look for an answer, find a package and recognise the names of people helping everyone else build things.
Our Umbraco has now retired. Sebastiaan Janssen’s “An hour on Our, one last time” explains the farewell and where its different parts have moved. The forum, documentation, packages and community pages now have their own homes.
That leaves a practical question: which places should you bookmark now? Here is a guide to finding useful information and getting involved, whether you are returning after a break or starting with Umbraco for the first time.
Start with the community hub
community.umbraco.com is a good starting point. It brings together community news, ways to contribute, newcomer guidance and links to people and initiatives around Umbraco.
It is also a useful place to find meetups, including online sessions as well as local gatherings. If travelling to a conference is difficult, a virtual meetup gives you another way to hear what people are building and join the conversation.
Check the current listings for dates, timezones and registration details. You do not need a finished package or a talk to participate: listening, asking a question and meeting a few people are useful first steps.
Ask technical questions on the new forum
For a development question, head to forum.umbraco.com. This is the current community forum, separate from the retired Our site.
A forum thread gives a question, its context and the eventual answer a durable home. Search before posting, then include the CMS version, relevant package versions, what you expected and what actually happened. A small example is much easier to help with than a screenshot of an entire project.
If you solve the problem yourself, add the answer. The next person searching for the same error will appreciate it. For a confirmed package bug, the maintainer’s linked issue tracker may be the more appropriate place to report it.
A note about Discord: the current community site still links to an Umbraco Discord server. Our’s retirement announcement does not announce a Discord shutdown. Follow the hub’s current links for chat; use the forum when you want a technical discussion that others can find and revisit.
Catch up quickly with UMB.FYI
UMB.FYI is a free weekly newsletter collecting Umbraco news, events and media, with links and short summaries. It is an independent community initiative rather than an Umbraco HQ publication.
This is a useful option when you want to keep up without checking lots of separate sites. A brief roundup can introduce a package, an article or an event you would otherwise have missed, and you can follow the original link when something deserves a closer look.
There is also an archive to browse before subscribing. If your immediate goal is “tell me what has been happening”, this is a sensible place to begin.
Find the people writing about Umbraco
The Community Blogs showcase gathers posts from authors across the wider community. It is a discovery point for independent writing, with links back to the original sites.
That breadth is useful. Official documentation explains supported behaviour; a developer’s article can explain the awkward part of applying it to a particular project, or why they chose one approach over another.
When an article helps, explore the author’s other posts and look for an RSS feed. Following a few people whose work overlaps with yours can be more manageable than trying to read everything. Check publication dates and target CMS versions when using older examples, particularly around the AngularJS-to-Web-Components transition.
If you write about Umbraco yourself, the showcase has an Add Your Blog form. A dedicated Umbraco feed helps readers discover the relevant posts. This site has an Umbraco RSS feed for that purpose.
Follow Umbraco’s own blog
Keep Umbraco’s official blog alongside the independent voices. Its community coverage provides another route to news about people, initiatives and events, while the wider blog covers product developments too.
It helps to know whose perspective you are reading. An official announcement and a community member’s account of using a feature serve different purposes, and both can be useful.
Make time for 24 Days in Umbraco
24 Days in Umbraco is worth bookmarking for longer reads. The linked 2025 collection includes articles about package development, backoffice communication, programmatic Block List imports, UFM, accessibility and more.
It is a good place to pick a subject and spend some time with it, rather than just scan headlines. The archive also gives you a way to discover authors and explore how approaches have changed across Umbraco versions.
Treat older examples as starting points and check them against the documentation for your target version. An explanation can remain useful even when the API in its code sample has changed.
Meet the community at the UK Conference
The Umbraco UK Conference brings another part of the community together in person. The 2026 programme was for 16 October at CodeNode in London, with sessions for developers, creatives and partners.
The programme is a useful illustration of how broad Umbraco work has become: development sits alongside accessibility, operational concerns and the business of delivering websites. Conversations between sessions can be just as useful as the talks when you want to compare experiences with people solving similar problems.
The 2026 date has passed. Check the conference site and the Umbraco UK Foundation’s events page for current announcements, rather than assuming an old ticket link is for the next event.
A small set of bookmarks
You do not have to follow every channel. Pick the places that help with what you need:
| What you need | Where to start |
|---|---|
| A quick news roundup | UMB.FYI |
| Help with a technical problem | Community forum |
| Developer articles and new authors | Community Blogs |
| Meetups and ways to get involved | Community hub |
| Official news and community stories | Umbraco blog |
| Longer articles to explore | 24 Days in Umbraco |
| The UK conference | Conference website |
For the other former Our destinations, keep the documentation, Marketplace and release information close by too.
The community still benefits from the same small contributions: answering a question, sharing something you learned, reporting a reproducible bug or welcoming someone at a meetup. Choose one place to start, and join in at your own pace.