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Simon Antony Umbraco Knowledge Base

Welcome to the new and improved Simon Antony Umbraco Knowledge Base! This place is a treasure trove of useful code snippets, solutions and tips to common (though often tricky!) web development challenges. Browse our knowledge base using the search mechanism above or use the tags below to browse by topic.

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Selectively Turning off Request Validation of Masterpages in Umbraco to Allow Posting of Markup via MVC Controllers

Selectively Turning off Request Validation in MVC and Masterpages in Umbraco to Allow Posting of Markup

How To Reset Main Umbraco 7 Admin Password Programatically If Locked Out

How To Reset Main Umbraco 7 Admin Password Programatically If Locked Out

Adding Simple Pagination To Search Results View Using Linq in Umbraco

Adding Simple Pagination To Search Results View Using Linq in Umbraco

Why Response.Redirect() Causes Thread Abort Exception and How To Solve

Thread abort exceptions can often be caused by doing Response.Redirect(...) within your Web Application, but what causes this and how can you solve it? Everything you need to know here.

How to Secure and Protect Media in Umbraco Behind a Login

Have you ever needed to protect Umbraco's media section behind a secure login? Perhaps you have a project with a secure download area members must register in order to be able to access? Here is a very simple, lightweight way to add secure media to Umbraco which only authenticated users can access.

Moving Umbraco media from one Azure blob storage to another

How to implement a new blob storage container for your existing Umbraco Media - especially useful when moving from one Azure subscription to another.

How do I use the Umbraco LogHelper method to trap errors and exceptions?

See how to use the Umbraco LogHelper to log error messages to the UmbracoTraceLog.txt file.

The provided anti-forgery token was meant for user "[email protected]", but the current user is "".

How to fix the error The provided anti-forgery token was meant for user "[email protected]", but the current user is "".

Find all content changed on your Umbraco website - audit log

The following script will run on Umbraco 7 & 8 and will show you all the content changed and by whom - very useful if you want to compare staging and live versions so you can update them.

Remove trailing slash from URL in Umbraco

Here we show you how to remove the trailing slash from your front end urls in Umbraco