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Giving Umbraco 17 A Bigger Clock: Raising The SQL Command Timeout With A Composer

Sometimes you need to override the Command Timeout in code... Here's how I did it in Umbraco 17 with a tiny composer. Continue reading

by Aaron Sadler

Complete Guide: Umbraco Sequence Upgrade from Version 13 to 17

by Girish Sasikumar

OC.PowerSort 1.2.0

by Owain Williams

Auto-Register Block Previews in Umbraco

Skip manual registration and let your project automatically discover which blocks should have preview enabled based on existing views.

by Søren Kottal

Editor Friendly 404 Pages in Umbraco

How to create customizable 404 pages that editors can manage, with support for multi-site setups using a ContentLastChanceFinder.

by Søren Kottal

Indexing Word, Excel and PowerPoint Documents in Umbraco Using Examine

By default Umbraco only indexes media item names, not their contents. Umbraco.Community.Examine.OpenXml fixes that by indexing text from docx, pptx and xlsx files with no additional configuration.

by Nevitech Blog

Umbraco Spark 2026

My notes and reflections from Umbraco Spark 2026 in Bristol. Covering every talk from Umbraco Search and backoffice collaboration to AI, cloud hosting and community.

by James Carter

Optimizing Umbraco Member Pagination From Slow to Lightning Fast

by Owain Williams

GitKraken CLI Beginner's Guide: A Better Git CLI for Developers

by Owain Williams

Umbraco In Action - Introduction to CMS for students

A session on what a CMS is, delivered to Coders Club students at Don Bosco College of Engineering, featuring practical demos using Umbraco, Next.js, and AI tools.

by Nathaniel Nunes

Building an AI-Powered Log Analyser for Umbraco at the Spark Hackathon

A look at how I built AI.LogAnalyser at the Umbraco Spark Hackathon - an open-source package that adds one-click AI analysis to the Umbraco backoffice log viewer. Click a button on any log entry and get a plain-language summary, likely cause, and recommended fix, powered by any AI provider via Umbraco.AI.

by Nevitech Blog

Developer’s Guide to Creating a Custom Umbraco 17 Backoffice Dashboard

by Debasish Gracias