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God Mode is a custom Umbraco 7.4 tree aimed at Developers to make it easy to locate, search and query your Umbraco 7 assets (doctypes, templates, property editors, media, controllers, models etc).

How to create a custom IContentFinder to use as a custom 404 Page Not Found handler in Umbraco that works when you have a multi-domain site that requires different 404 pages for each site (such as a multilingual website).

My thoughts and feelings around the 6th UK Umbraco Festival in London, which gets bigger and better every year. A truly inspiring event and a great reflection of the Umbraco community.

If you're an ASP.NET developer then sooner or later you will come across an occasion when you want to manipulate or parse values from the current request's querystring. To make this easier I developed a small C# library that enables developers to easily manipulate the querystring collection.

Diplo Link Checker is a free package for Umbraco 7 CMS that I developed. It allows an editor to easily check their Umbraco site for broken or problematic links.

If you are a C# developer then you'll be familiar with LINQ (Language-Integrated Query). In this post I provide some examples of how you can perform equivalent functions in JavaScript.

This post explains how you can create C# extension methods to make querying Umbraco's IPublishedContent more intuitive and seamless. It also includes some examples of methods I commonly use in my projects.

Free online and offline tools that can help compact and optimise your CSS stylesheets and JavaScript files. This will ensure your website loads quickly and will also keep your code concise and fast.