Intergrate Yet Another Forum 1.9.3RC2 with Umbraco 4

2009-02-28T15:09:00.001+01:00

Since Umbraco doesn't have a integrated forum package yet I tried to integrate the latest version of YAF. Here are the steps that I took and the issues that I encountered. Preparing Umbraco Download and install Umbraco4 with Runway to keep it simple In Umbraco you create new documenttype called Forum and a matching template Add properties to this documenttype. I only added a title

Vote for Umbraco

2008-08-11T13:57:00.001+02:00

Go vote for Umbraco at the Packt Pub CMS Awards '08

Macro for HTML encoding fields in templates

2008-04-10T21:53:00.001+02:00

In Umbraco when you try to add a field to your template you can UrlEncode it like this : But you can't do this : I read in this forum thread that a fix for this has been submitted to codeplex but untill it's released I have made a macro to work around this. First create a XSLT file

Transforming feeds...one XSLT to rule them all

2008-03-06T15:04:00.001+01:00

For a client at my work I needed to built a feed reading module in to their CMS. I created the following XSLT to transform the feeds to the desired HTML. This XSLT can be used for Atom 0.3, Atom 1.0, RSS 0.90, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. With some minor tweaks this can be used in Umbraco as well. Here is an example of reading a atom feed in Umbraco. Here is my XSLT.

Sitecore Xpress Personal Developer Edition coming

2008-02-04T10:48:00.001+01:00

I found on this blog that Sitecore is releasing a personal edition that's free to use for personal websites. The site htttp://xpress.sitecore.net will launch on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 7.30 AM CET. There are also 2 webinars that you can register for. I'll see if I can find the time to watch one of them. But it's definilaty worth to have a look at.

Adding CSS or JavaScript to your mastertemplate based on documenttype

2008-01-28T23:40:00.000+01:00

The way I normally work when making websites is to use several CSS-files and JavaScript-files. So most of the time I have a main.css and general.js file that is included in every page. But when I have pages that needed separate styling or clientside functionality I add for example a news.css and news.js. So I the visitor only has to download these file when needed. In Umbraco there is no

Testing MySql support for Umbraco

2008-01-23T16:47:00.000+01:00

Most recently, new core team member and fellow Belgian Ruben Verborgh, created a data-layer for Umbraco with support for MySql. You can read about it here. I decided to try it out because my current hosting supports MySql and not MS SQL. Everything runs as expected, except for a known bug in the media section. If you try to upload a file you will get a error, but the file gets uploaded, only

Converting a DotNetNuke site to Umbraco

2008-01-23T15:56:00.000+01:00

I recently discovered Umbraco when I was looking for an alternative to DotNetNuke. After playing around with it for a couple of evenings, I decided to convert a site running on DotNetNuke 2.1.2 on a Access database to Umbraco. The first steps I took to get to know Umbraco were : Install Umbraco as described hereInstall the Creative Web Specialist Website package and see how it worksGoogled for

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