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September 13, 2022

Sunsetting Umbraco 7: Your Path to Upgrading

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Content management systems — like all software applications — are living, breathing systems of code and design. They are built with the intention of constantly improving. They are upgradable, and they are patchable. Here's what to do to ensure your Umbraco install doesn't fall behind as Version 7 is sunsetted in 2023.

Development  |  Umbraco

July 15, 2022

Moving a Bank from Design to Umbraco Implementation

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Western State Bank had a design that needed to be implemented within Umbraco. Thankfully, that’s exactly what Blend was able to help them do.

Financial Services  |  Development  |  Migration  |  Umbraco

May 3, 2022

Blend Releases Two Umbraco Utilities Into the Wild

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At Blend, we’ve created our own utilities and shortcuts for helping every project become a success — and we’ve released two new ones to the Umbraco community: Blend.Sitemap and Blend.RobotsTxt.

Development  |  Umbraco

April 21, 2022

Announcing Blend.Optimizely

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Announcing release of Blend.Optimizely, a collection of helpful utilities for Optimizely CMS 12 sites from the development team at Blend.

Development  |  Optimizely

April 1, 2022

Searching With Solr: A Startup Guide

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Chances are, you’ve found yourself in the sticky situation of adapting a default search engine. But, there are options beyond the default, starting with an open source solution called Apache Solr. Here's how to get started.

Development

Joe Kepley  |  March 14, 2022

How Blend Chooses a CMS

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Over its history, Blend has developed a pattern of being an early North American partner for a number of European CMS systems. Blend was an early North America Partner for eZ Publish (now Ibexa), Episerver (now Optimizely), and Umbraco (still Umbraco!).

Development  |  Discovery and Scoping

March 5, 2022

Blend’s Bob Davidson Named One of the Best: Optimizely OMVP

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Blend Interactive is excited to recognize Bob Davidson for his selection as one of 2022’s OMVP (Optimizely Most Valuable Professional) developers.

Development  |  Optimizely

Bob Davidson  |  February 2, 2022

Content References in XhtmlString Properties

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Blend's Director of Development Bob Davidson takes a brief look at the internals of XhtmlString properties and the fragments that make them.

Development  |  Optimizely

Bob Davidson  |  January 14, 2022

Multitenant Episerver Sites on IIS Express

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Blend's Director of Development Bob Davidson explains how to navigate IIS Express in order to bind multiple Episerver sites and languages in this Coding with Bob video.

Development  |  Optimizely

Joe Kepley  |  January 6, 2022

Making the Choice Between Umbraco and Wordpress

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An overview of the differences between two open-source CMS systems: Umbraco and Wordpress.

Development  |  Umbraco