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Building a QR-Code Walking Route App with Umbraco, Next.js and AI

.I built a QR-code walking route app using Umbraco 18, Next.js and an AI coding agent. In this post I explain the content model, the headless setup, how MCP was used to configure Umbraco, and which rules helped keep the AI-generated implementation co...

by Johan Reitsma

Running the Umbraco backoffice behind Windows Authentication

From Umbraco 14 onwards, the backoffice stops working on sites where IIS has Windows Authentication on and anonymous authentication off. Here's why that happens, and a small package that fixes it for Umbraco 17 and 18.

by Justin Neville

Upgrading Umbraco 13 to 17 on Umbraco Cloud? Set the .NET runtime first

Umbraco Cloud deploy failing with NETSDK1045 after a 13 to 17 upgrade? The .NET runtime setting in the Cloud portal needs changing.

by Nathaniel Nunes

Manage video in Umbraco, stream elsewhere

uMux now supports Umbraco 18, joined by uBun and uGum for syncing local videos to Mux, Bunny Stream or Gumlet without changing the editor workflow.

by Søren Kottal

How I built the Umbraco Kent Meetup website using Umbraco and Astro

How I built the Umbraco Kent Meetup site headless on Umbraco 17 and Astro, hosted on Azure for less than a Cloud starter, without writing any of the code myself.

by Justin Neville

Diagnosing a Redis session timeout that only happened in production

A StackExchange.Redis 3 upgrade caused session timeouts that only appeared in production, and the real cause turned out to be .NET ThreadPool starvation rather than the client itself.

by Justin Neville

Bringing Excel export back to Umbraco Forms

A client preferred Excel exports, so I built a small Umbraco Forms package to bring them back using SpreadCheetah.

by Søren Kottal

Writing My First Umbraco Extension: Building ThtaAI

Building my first Umbraco extension: lessons learned creating ThtaAI, from AI-powered property editors to full page generation and publishing.

by David Whalley

Initials.Autolink

Add a keyword, and every old article that mentions it links itself. Initials.AutoLink for Umbraco 17+, and the first open source package from Initials Labs.

by Owain Williams

The ultimate Umbraco site structure, revisited

How I use the Ultimate Site Structure, with a custom URL provider and content finder that keep the frontpage separate from the site root.

by Søren Kottal

Resetting an Umbraco Backoffice Password at the Database Level

by Anuj Tripathi

Meet Engage.AI: an AI copilot built for marketers

Umbraco Engage.AI is in public beta: an AI copilot answering marketer questions about campaigns, segments and A/B tests, straight from your Engage data.

by Corné Hoskam