Posts by tag: Umbraco

AutoTags Umbraco DataType

One of my biggest irritations as a web developer is populating web pages with content. Ok, it needs to be done, but it can get a little tedious. One of the more tedious tasks are SEO, and page categorisation. So wouldn't it be good if you could automatically generate keywords that relate to the page content, categories for news articles and tags for blog posts?

Umbraco problems with displaying Special characters

Umbraco v4.0.1 and possibly others have trouble saving special characters entered in the richtexteditor property. To solve this alter the following settings

Umbraco TinyURL Datatype

I have developed a custom datatype for use with the Umbraco CMS which generates a shortened version of the page. This datatype send the current page tinyurl.com when the page is saved and saves the returned value as a property.

Get Node or Node ID by URL

This article is a short article demonstrating how to retrieve an Umbraco Node via the URL of a page.

AutoTag v1.3 released

New update for my AutoTag datatype. It creates Theres been some pretty hefty updates, mainly to the user interface. As the original UI was, well, rubbish!! Hopefully it looks a bit better anyway. I've also added better notifications when errors occur, as well as adding errors to the Umbraco Log table.