README.md

Awesome Umbraco!

A collection of awesome Umbraco 7 packages, resources and shiny things.

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

Contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines and quality standard page before making a pull-request.

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.

• Backoffice extensions
  • Form Builders
  • Grid Editors
  • Property Editors
  • SEO Tools
• Developer tools
• eCommerce
• Starter Kits
• Website utilities
• Code Libraries
• Umbraco products

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

Backoffice extensions

• Analytics - Integrates Google Analytics statistics within the back-office.
• Config Tree - Edit *.config files within the back-office.
• Robots.txt editor - Edit robots.txt from within the back-office.
• UI-O-Matic - Auto generate an integrated crud UI in Umbraco for a db table based on a petapoco poco.

Form Builders

• Form Editor - An editor friendly form builder for creating forms as part of the web content.
• Formulate - Build website forms (contact forms, newsletter sign ups, surveys, job applications) with no coding.

Grid Editors

• Doc Type Grid Editor - Advanced grid editor for Umbraco.

Property Editors

• Archetype - Group multiple property-editors.
• Multi Url Picker - Allows editors to pick and sort multiple urls, it uses Umbraco's link picker which supports internal and external links and media.
• nuPickers - Lots of Picker type property-editors.
• Nested Content - list editing property-editor, uses doc types to define the list item blue prints.
• Sir Trevor - An intuitive property-editor for web content.
• Skybrud.LinkPicker - a configurable link picker that can be used as either a property editor or grid editor. Supports selecting content, media or specify external URLs.
• Skybrud.ImagePicker - a configurable image picker that can be used as either a property editor or grid editor. Each image can be supplemented with a title, description and/or link.
• Switcher - A simple property editor that works as an alternative to the core true/false datatype.
• Vorto - Property-editor wrapper for multilingual content entry.

SEO Tools

• SEO Checker* - find common SEO issues in your Umbraco website.
• SEO Metadata - Property-editor for maintaining SEO metadata against your DocTypes.
• RankOne - SEO Toolkit - provides a collection of SEO tools for Umbraco that aim to optimize your content according to the latest SEO standards.

Developer tools

• 301 URL Tracker - Manage and redirect legacy URLs.
• Optimus - Bundling and minification of your CSS and Javascript.
• CMSImport* - import content or members from any datasource into Umbraco.
• uSync - Syncing tool for reading and writing the database elements to disk.
• Diplo Trace Log Viewer - view Umbraco log files directly from the Developer section in Umbraco.

eCommerce

• Merchello - High performance, open source eCommerce package.
• uCommerce* - .NET eCommerce platform, seamlessly integrates with Umbraco.
• Tea Commerce* - eCommerce built on top of Umbraco.
• Pipeline CRM* - Customer Relationship Management for Umbraco.

Starter Kits

• Articulate - Blogging platform.
• Dialogue - Fully featured forum / bulletin-board.
• Hybrid Framework - Visual Studio starter-kit, showcasing best practices.
• LocalGov Starter Kit - Local government style website.

Website utilities

• ezSearch - Add-on website search.
• Slimsy - Responsive Images using Slimmage for Umbraco.
• Cultiv DynamicRobots - Updates the host in robots.txt for multisite solution.
• Full Text Search - A search solution for Umbraco.
• UnVersion - Removes previous versions of content.

Code Libraries

• Ditto - a lightweight model mapper for IPublishedContent.
• Zbu Models Builder - generate strongly-typed IPublishedContent models automagically.
• Umbraco Core Property Value Converters - implements converters for the Umbraco Core property-editors.
• Skybrud.Umbraco.GridData - a package for making the Umbraco grid strongly typed.

Umbraco products

These are commercial products from the Umbraco HQ team.

• Umbraco Forms* - The new Contour, use this to add forms to your site.
• Courier* - Deploy changes from within the back-office.

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