learn. rinse. repeat
In preparation for Umbraco CodeGarden 11 this coming week, ProWorks has created a Commerce for Umbraco Sample Website and Starter Kit that you can download and try out for yourself! This site is similar to the starter site the ProWorks uses to create e-commerce sites.
Included in the sample site:
Umbraco 4.7
Commerce for Umbraco
Blog 4 Umbraco
News
FAQ
Screen Shots:
Files:
Commerce4Umbraco_ExampleSite.zip [...]
I just stumbled across a new site that would have been very useful in getting up to speed with XSLT and XPATH not only when getting started with Umbraco, but also with Sitecore. It’s Pimp My XSLT by Chriztian Steinmeier (@greystate).
My favorite fun tool on the site is an XPath Axes Visualizer:
Basically, you can change [...]
Most SEO experts say that when you have two or more domains or URLs that have duplicate content, then Google will penalize you. Google and SEO experts recommend that you use 301 redirects to tell search engines that you have duplicate content and to forward to the correct domain or url.
This is something we [...]
Recently we upgraded an Umbraco 4.0.3 website to Umbraco 4.5.2 and found that the ‘Yet Another Media Picker 4′ package isn’t supported in 4.5.2. Unfortunately, simply selecting Media Picker as the new type isn’t going to work because the YAMP4 stored its media id in the NText field in the database instead of as an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just created and posted a new ProWorks Redirect Page package for Umbraco on the Our.Umbraco.com package repository:
ProWorks Redirect Page v1.03
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The dll now supports 301 Redirects. After installing the new dll, you will need to refresh your Macro parameters. There is a new property on the UserControl called “Is301Redirect”. If true, then the redirect [...]
I’ve updated the Flickr API Search – XSLT Extension Umbraco package to include the new methods below:
BySet()
ByUserAndTag()
ByUserWithPaging()
ByGroupWithPaging()
ByFreeTextWithPaging()
ByTagWithPaging()
ByUserAndTagWithPaging()
It also has been tested in Umbraco 4.5 and Umbraco 4.0.x
The original documentation has been updated and is located here: Flickr API Search Package for Umbraco
The Umbraco Package page is here: Flickr API Search – XSLT Extension
Enjoy and please [...]
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 [...]