Awesome

Awesome Umbraco!

A collection of awesome Umbraco CMS packages, resources and shiny things.

Inspired by awesome lists. For general C#/.NET please see the awesome-dotnet collection!

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

Please read the contribution guidelines and quality standard page before making a pull-request. If you see a resource or package here that is no longer maintained, please submit a pull request to help improve this collection.

Thank you to all contributors, you are awesome and this list wouldn't be possible without you! The goal is to build a categorized community-driven collection of very well-known resources.

Contents

This list is for Umbraco v9, if you looking for v8, you can find those here.

• Official
• Community
• Backoffice extensions
  • Form Builders
  • Property Editors
• Developer tools
  • Deployment
• eCommerce & CRM
• Starter Kits
• Code Libraries

Please note * indicates that the package is commercial or may require a license to unlock all features.

Official

• Umbraco website
• CodeGarden Conference
• Documentation
• Download
• Forum
• Meetups
• Official YouTube Channel - tutorials and other helpful videos about Umbraco products.

Community

• #h5yr - High Five, You Rock!
• 24 Days In Umbraco - yearly advent calendar for Umbraco content.
• Blog Posts - blog posts by members of the Umbraco community and Umbraco HQ.
• Candid Contributions - a fortnightly podcast discussing all things Umbraco and open source.
• Skrift - a monthly magazine for sharing knowledge in the Umbraco community.
• umbraCoffee - a weekly YouTube series discussing recent Umbraco news.
• Official YouTube Channel - the Umbraco community YouTube channel.

Backoffice extensions

• Plumber - adds a heap of useful bits and pieces to Umbraco, to allow multi-staged workflow approval.
• Translation Manager* - lets you handle all of the steps of the translation process from within Umbraco.
• Page Not Found Manager - Manage your sites 404 page(s) from Umbraco.
• Contentment - A handy collection of Umbraco components developed for use in your Umbraco projects.
• Skybrud.Umbraco.Redirects - Redirects manager for Umbraco.
• SimpleRedirects - Redirects manager for Umbraco.
• Newsletter Studio* - Responsive email editor to create emails for all clients.
• Backoffice Themes - Allows choosing your own themes for in the backoffice.
• Preflight - Framework for content quality assurance
• MemberListView - Adds a dashboard for the members area for easier management.

Form Builders

• Umbraco Forms* - The new Contour, use this to add forms to your site. (Developed by Umbraco HQ)

Property Editors

• Meganav - A flexible, draggable link picker for constructing site navigation menus, big or small.
• Personalisation Groups - allow personalisation of content to different groups of site visitors
• Switcher - A simple property editor that works as an alternative to the core true/false datatype.
• uEditorNotes - Provides a way to display instructional messages for content editors, at the point of content entry.
• Open or closed - Property editor to allow setting up business hours.

Developer tools

• CMSImport* - import content or members from any datasource into Umbraco.
• uSync - Syncing tool for reading and writing the database elements to disk.
• Diplo God Mode - Exposes a lot of information for developers.
• DateFolders - Creates Datefolders (year/month(/day)) for the specified doctype for Umbraco
• AlphabetFolders - Creates AlphabetFolders for the specified doctype for Umbraco

Deployment

• Deploy Contrib - Offers value-connectors for the most popular Umbraco community packages. To allow Umbraco Cloud deploy to transfer content/property-data to a target environment. (Maintained by Umbraco HQ) Umbraco Cloud only

eCommerce & CRM

• Vendr* - eCommerce built on top of Umbraco.

Starter Kits

• Clean Starter Kit - Clean and simple website to get started with

Website Utilities

• InboundLinkErrors - Tracks 404 responses so you can easily add new redirects.
• Full Text Search - Fast and easy way to setup search for your website.

Code Libraries

• Skybrud.Umbraco.GridData - a package for making the Umbraco grid strongly typed.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.