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Why 2026 Is Finally the Year I'm Going to Codegarden

Some things just hang around on your bucket list forever. You tell yourself, “maybe next year,” but you never actually get around to it. For me, that’s always been Codegarden.I’ve been working with Umbraco since version 4—so, we’re talking 2012 or 2013. That’s over a decade of projects, bug fixes, and late-night “why is this still broken?” moments. But I’ve never packed a bag and headed to Copenhagen for the biggest Umbraco event on the planet. Not once. Until now.

by Dave Jonker

Fixing the sort order in Content Pickers in Umbraco

by Owain Williams

Umbraco MVP 2026!

Woohoo! Proud to receive my seventh Umbraco MVP award in 2026, marking another year of sharing, building, and community-driven progress.

by Jeroen Breuer

Noisy ImageSharp Logs in Umbraco

ImageSharp logs every image request at INFO level, quietly filling your Umbraco logs until the backoffice viewer hits its 100 MB limit and refuses to open them. Here's the one line Serilog fix, plus why a CDN helps.

by Justin Neville

How I let Cursor build an Azure Search provider for Umbraco Search

I wanted to build an Azure Search provider for Umbraco and let Cursor do the heavy lifting. This is what that looked like from the first prompt to the final commit.

by Jeroen Breuer

Codegarden 2026 - not long now!

by Owain Williams

Browsing Umbraco Logs in Kudu

A new userscript that brings a proper Serilog log viewer into the Kudu interface: file picker, expression search, saved queries, and a momentum graph, all with no build step required.

by Søren Kottal

Azure Key Vault Configuration Using RBAC in Azure App Service

Managing secrets securely is one of the most important aspects of modern cloud applications. Instead of storing sensitive values like connection strings, API keys, or passwords directly inside applica

by Anjumol Babu

Smarter redirects when editors trash content in Umbraco

A new Umbraco package that replaces the default trash action. It captures the URLs of doomed content first, then suggests redirect targets using Umbraco.AI.Search, with a non-AI fallback for bulk trashes.

by Søren Kottal

Releasing Image Hotspot 17.0.0

What's new in version 17.0.0 of the Image Hotspot property editor: Umbraco 17 support, block editor fixes, localization in 29 languages, and a new versioning scheme.

by Søren Kottal

Share the Love - Bringing #H5YR to jcdc.dev

I've added the new #H5YR widget to my sites. Send a virtual High Five!

by James Carter

The Umbicosaurus De-Extinction: The Community Effort that Brought a Better Icon Picker to Umbraco 17.4

In 2021, I dreamed of improving the icon picker in the Umbraco backoffice and today, in Umbraco 17.4, the package I started is making a splash as part of Core! This is the story of Umbicosaurus.

by Joe Glombek