Documentation for Umbraco 7

Fundamentals

All the basics of using Umbraco v7. From your first local installation, to a fully functional customized CMS.

Implementation

Get an overview of how the Umbraco pipeline is structured. Learn how to write queries and use the API's

Extending

Documentation on the areas in Umbraco that are extendable such as custmizing backoffice ui and creating packages.

Add-on documentation

Everything you need to know about Forms and Courier, the two premium packages developed and supported by HQ

Contributing

The documentation project is open source and hosted on Github. If you have any corrections or additions to the documentation clone the project and make a pull request. Guidelines on how to contribute to the documentation.

Umbraco 4 Documentation

Installation

Describes how Umbraco is installed, using either WebMatrix, Microsoft Platform Installer, or from a zip-file.

Using Umbraco

Describes Umbraco terminology, configuration files/settings & step by step guides on how to approach the different areas in Umbraco.

Developers' Reference

Templating, querying, searching and other Umbraco APIs.

Cheatsheets

Cheatsheets for easy overview of different areas like the Razor API and Views syntax.

Umbraco Add-on documentation

Documentation for the Umbraco add-ons 'Forms' and 'Courier'

Extending Umbraco

Documentation on how to extend umbraco with your own editors, trees, sections, and how to distribute those extensions as packages. (coming soon)

Development Guidelines

How to work with the Umbraco codebase.