In this post I want to show you how to automatically generate an XML (Google) sitemap for an Umbraco CMS site. The code uses the Umbraco API, Linq To XML and a generic .ashx hander to do this in one small file.
In this post I praise the hidden world of foreign-language cinema and TV that we rarely experience in the English speaker world. I also wonder why we see so few subtitled drams on British TV.
Creating a Date Range Picker property editor for Umbraco 7 ("Belle") using Angular JS. The post also includes information on creating a Property Value Converter. Finally there is a download link to the Date Range Picker package on Our Umbraco.
Diplo Trace Log Viewer is an Umbraco developer plugin that allows you to easily select and view the contents of the trace log files that Umbraco generates. The control also allows you to search, order and filter log events (e.g. you may only wish to view Errors or Warnings) - all from within Umbraco 6 or Umbraco 7.
In my previous post I told you how you can easily index uCommerce products (in Umbraco) using the Lucene text search engine. But indexing products is only half the story - you also need to be able to search those products too! In this post I'll show you how to write a simple Razor script to search your index and return the most relevant results
This post deals with indexing and searching products in uCommerce (an Umbraco ecommerce platform) using Lucene .NET (a dot net port of the Java Lucene text search engine library). This first post is about how to create an index using Lucene and C#, and will be followed up by a post of how to use that index for searching in Part Two.
How to create a strongly-typed form in Umbraco 4 (WebForms) using pure Razor CSHTML scripting - without the need for ViewState, User Controls or any "web forms" gunk! You'll also see how you can perform both server-side and client-side validation (using jQuery validate) without cluttering your presentation layer.
Minification is the process of removing unnecessary whitespace and characters from your website assets without changing the functionality. This is desirable as it helps make your pages load quicker which, in turn, helps keep visitors happy and also can improve your SEO.