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Umbraco Tutorial: How to Create a Blog Post with Blog for Umbraco

Want to know how to create a blog post in Umbraco? Just follow these steps:
1. Go to the “Content” section of Umbraco, find “Blog” under “Home”

2. Right click “Blog” and choose “Create”

3. Enter the title of your post and click “Create”

3a. The post will be automatically placed into the correct date folder in the content [...]

Notes and Experiences Upgrading Umbraco 4.0.x to 4.6.1 and 4.7.0

This is a series of notes and what I could cobble together from various Umbraco upgrade articles and sources.  I also found a few issues that weren’t documented by anyone that gave me some grief.  I’ll likely add any 4.7 specific items as well when I get a chance to test this process with that [...]

13 Blog Post Ideas and Other Tips for Business Blogs

What’s the Objective?

Earn TRUST – how important are relationships to your business?
Merit CREDIBILITY – how do you prove expertise?
Demonstrate you CARE – do you care enough to share?
Invite FEEDBACK – are phone & email enough for your customers?
Grow your online PRESENCE – how do your customers find you online?
Make someone say “WOW” – is it valuable [...]

Creating Your Own Custom YouTube Player

The Custom Player allows you to create a customized player that you can add to your website or blog. YouTube provides a nice easy to use one-page wizard to show one of your playlists, favorites, or your own videos.
Here is an example of a custom player that is set to play a specific playlist. As [...]

New Facebook Fan Page Feature: How To Post As Both Your Page and Yourself

With the release of the new Facebook Fan Page look and feel one key new feature was added:
You can now decide whether you want to post on your Facebook Fan Page as yourself (your personal profile).
The old fan page forced you to post as your fan page persona if you were an admin of a [...]

Adventures in Twilio and C#

Try out our ProWorks Twilio demo now: http://twiliodemo.proworks.com

Umbraco 4.5.2 Custom Create Control Fix in Custom Admin Trees

While working towards getting the Commerce for Umbraco project working in Umbraco 4.5.2 I encountered an issue that didn’t appear to have an obvious fix. Luckily, a dive into the Umbraco source code provided an answer.
Commerce for Umbraco (C4U) has two custom creation dialogs for the Coupons and the Products. In Umbraco 4.0.x [...]

How to Moderate All Comments in Blog 4 Umbraco

The cool Blog 4 Umbraco package built by the Umbraco Team is a great package with a few features missing out of the box.  The fact that it is Open Source really rocks because it means we can fill in the gaps.  At ProWorks we have been slowly building on Blog 4 Umbraco and now [...]

How to Generate an RSS Feed from Facebook

Facebook unlike Twitter and blogs do not publish an RSS feed for us. In addition it’s content is behind a login. This makes Facebook very challenging to monitor. This is a method for generating an RSS feed of content from Facebook utilizing Google search, Open Dapper and topping it off with an RSS reader. Note
The idea [...]

Add A Custom Tab to Your Facebook Fan Page – Starter Template Included

Adding a custom tab to your Facebook Fan page really isn’t that hard if you know a little HTML. But if you are daunted by CSS and layout, then today is your luck day. I’m going to give you a starter template to get going with and you can use that to get something [...]