Umbraco
DK
Festival

The new Umbraco Search was released earlier this year. In this session we'll have a closer look at it.
We'll look at the extension points that are available to tweak and tailor the search results, and take a deep dive into a few of them. Expect a session with lots of code!

Official Docker support for Umbraco is here!! The technology which help enable the scalable, high-availability internet is now officially supported as part of the CMS and even if you don't think you'll switch to containers for your hosting immediately, everyone should know how containers work, and how they can help you build a scalable, resilient application! In this talk I'll be  looking at how to use Umbraco in a load-balanced container-based application. This will give the audience a good foundation on the technology used, the tools available to developers, and the mechanisms for maintaining and deploying your applications on Containers.

I'll cover some of the concepts of what containers are, how they work, and how distributed, container based applications allow for some pretty awesome scalable and robust application architectures. We'll look at a container application using the latest Umbraco version running on a Docker environment. You'll leave with tips and tools, and hopefully the inspiration to try new things with Containers!

Editor experience isn’t just a nice-to-have — it’s what makes or breaks your build. With the arrival of the first LTS using the new backoffice, we're seeing fresh possibilities to shape more intuitive and delightful editing environments. But with great innovation (hello Bellissima!) comes the loss of old comforts (farewell AngularJS).

We'll explore how developers can craft richer editor experiences using blocks, templated labels, and the newly-minted Umbraco Flavored Markdown (UFM) as well as some custom views and project-specific extensions.

Whether you're wrangling complex content models or just tired of grumpy editors, this session will help you build backoffices that are thoughtful and elegant without sacrificing structure or sanity.

It's all too easy to feel like you're stuck in a rut as a developrm and as Ellen Glasgow once said "The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions".

In this talk we will explore how to escape the feeling you're stuck in a development rut without changing jobs or roles; and have fun doing so.

Note: The speaker is not a trained therapist or career adviser and the talk is based on the speaker's experience.

In this session I will take you through the complete journey content takes from backoffice to database, notifications, cache layer and index.

You'll learn how to access content at each stage, with practical guidance on making the right choices for performance and functionality.

A guide to securing Umbraco CMS installations in enterprise environments, drawing from real-world experience with high-traffic sites. I will cover the four main security threat categories—access attacks, content integrity, data protection, and site integrity and present practical defensive strategies. These include implementing CDN-based caching, firewall filtering, traffic dispersion through load balancing, role separation between CMS and frontend applications, SSO authentication, and comprehensive security headers.

I will also show how to set up Umbraco to play nice in a Azure Cloud hosted environment using load-balancing, a security compliant configuration setup and sensible caching rules, as well as how you can implement monitoring of the whole setup in a compliant and practical manner.

DR has chosen Umbraco as their new article CMS! A platform that will support hundreds of journalists and thousands of articles powering dr.dk, one of Denmark’s largest news sites with over 30 million monthly visits.

The project demonstrates Umbraco’s flexibility, with a strong focus on the editorial backoffice experience. It has been technically extremely interesting, as we’ve had the rare opportunity to focus entirely on the backoffice of this headless solution. We have dedicated all our energy to customizing and extending Umbraco with powerful editorial tools and workflows that truly make a difference for the users.

In this talk, I will show you some of the customizations we have made to give the editors and journalists at DR great user experience and enable them to efficiently deliver articles of high quality.

A custom starter kit, copy-pasting previous code, or reinventing the wheel each time – everyone has different approaches to starting new Umbraco sites. But upgrading and keeping code in-sync between projects can become a nightmare... It doesn't have to be this way!

This session explores an innovative approach to building a composable architecture of Themes, Plugins, and Modules – leveraging modern .NET features, supporting customisation at every level with minimal code, and surfaced in a friendly way via the backoffice.

We'll see how extending Umbraco with a custom view engine, Razor Class Libraries, and uSync Roots (+ some MS Build magic), delivered via bespoke NuGet packages, can create a one-click experience for adding new website features – empowering even non-developers to build an Umbraco site in minutes, and elegantly bridging the complexity of major upgrades!

Follow along as we discuss key architectural considerations to ensure easy upgradability and reuse, plus learn the guiding principles to crafting a delightful Umbraco developer experience that people from all backgrounds can enjoy.

Join Emma and Sebastiaan for a fast-paced tour of what’s been happening in the world of Umbraco - through the eyes of developers.

We’ll look back at the biggest updates to the CMS, the latest packages and tools making your lives easier, and share what’s brewing right now inside Umbraco HQ. You’ll get a sneak peek at features on the horizon, insights from the community, and plenty of inspiration to take back to your own projects. Whether you’re building sites, extending the platform, or just curious about what’s next, this session is for you.