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Umbraco - the simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS

For the first time on the Microsoft platform a free user and developer friendly cms that makes it quick and easy to create websites - or a breeze to build complex web applications. umbraco got award-winning integration capabilities and supports your ASP.NET User and Custom Controls out of the box. It's a developers dream.
More info at http://umbraco.org

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We have a forum running on http://forum.umbraco.org. The discussions area on CodePlex will be for discussions on developing the core, and not on Umbraco-implementations or extensions in general. For those topics, please use http://forum.umbraco.org.

Umbraco 4 Beta 2 released - feature frozen

We're proud to finally have released Umbraco 4 Beta 2. This is a big milestone as it's a feature frozen version. Make sure to read about the known issues in Beta 2: KnownIssues

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You can submit patches to umbraco from the source code tab. Frequent patchers can be considered for the core team. If you want to join, start by solving issues and keeping an eye on core team chat announcements!

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Comments
kenbecker wrote  Mar 6 at 5:27 PM 
This looks like a great web app.

HesaPesa wrote  May 22 at 9:37 PM 
Umbraco is a great CMS with active parts like; Content, DocTypes, Templates, Macros/XSLT. Give it some minutes, it's worth the time!

keith5000 wrote  May 30 at 4:06 PM 
I'm sure this is a powerful app but a) it is very difficult to understand the configuration, b) there is very little or no documentation on important configuration steps (I had to find out about website packages and how to import them by reading several different disparate message board comments), c) it screws up the IIS settings (it hijacked my default web site, changed some of its settings, and changed the app pool of all of my existing apps)!

levous wrote  May 31 at 3:03 AM 
Umbraco is a full, enterprise grade CMS with full source and very content-centric features. For most applications, you can use it out of the box. For the rest, you have the source. Building the administration side alone would take next to forever to replicate. When asp.net providers hit the release, integration with your proprietary web apps will be seamless.

I've been toying with it for a couple of years but recently have whipped out four websites using it. Unfortunately, one of the sites I created was dicarded by the team that I left behind. Xslt can be a little intimidating. My advice is to install it in a virtual machine and go to town. You might fall in love.

Regarding keith5000 comments: a) configuration is mysterious but its an open source app. Dig in. Inspect the source code. b) documentation is certainly not complete but there is more documentation and community support on this project than almost any other project I've dealt with. c) yes, there is an automated install that assumes quite a lot. Manual install is quite easy. If you know enough to care about such settings, you certainly know enough to follow the instructions.

jitendraapi wrote  Sep 30 at 12:27 PM 
Its looks like good, i just seeing its code. But is there any other CMS which have more functionality than... this.

thanks

Jitendra Singh
www.newGenLives.com

mrshrinkray wrote  Oct 2 at 1:07 AM 
For .NET Jitendra? I'm not sure about that. The only ones that might have more features cost $50k or more. Look at Peugeot, Heinz - they use Umbraco. Or www.sloppycode.net for a little demo for more developer-based functionality.

jitendraapi wrote  Oct 3 at 10:05 AM 
yes only for .net, i also looked upon .NetDuke, but some of my friend deny to use that one.
I dont want to spend money, i just need one open source with most of the functionality, later i can update the code by myself.

thanks

Jitendra Singh
www.newGenLives.com

ClonGimini wrote  Oct 23 at 10:04 PM 
I've been testing several CMS in the past 6 months.

To my joy, Umbraco is the only one with which I was able to install, setup, apply a template (look&feel) and add dummy content in less than 6 hours without even reading user manuals. So the learning curve is really minimal to get a "starter-website", that's why I feel comfortable with it.

There is one thing I think Umbraco shows weakness and that's its community support, it seems there is a marketplace ready to be launched (it's a beta version) but besides that and the forum, I don't see too much activity. So that's my only concern. I'll be glad if someone can point that I'm wrong in this assumption by posting his/her experience with the community.

I found Umbraco has been nominated to the CMS Award '08 by Packt Publishing who will anounce winners later this month, hope Umbraco wins to get the attention it deserves.

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