Blog
Regularly blogging about Umbraco, CSS, digital sustainability and more!
The quickest way to add a custom font to the new Umbraco backoffice
When dealing with fonts and the Shadow DOM, font files have to be loaded at the outermost possible layer so that they can cascade (thanks to the C in CSS) down to Web Components.
Adding 2FA (+ recovery codes) for Umbraco Members
On a recent client project at work I was tasked with adding two factor authentication to a member login area in Umbraco 13.
Codegarden 2025
This year's annual Umbraco developer conference gathered for its 20th instalment, bigger and better than ever.
ContentAudit: first class site crawling and SEO auditing for Umbraco
ContentAudit is my new package that enables first class site crawling and SEO auditing inside Umbraco.
Keeping Sessions Alive in Umbraco with Third-Party Payment Providers
Integrating with third-party payment providers in Umbraco comes with a few unique challenges, particularly around session persistence. For instance, when users complete a transaction and return to the site, they often find their session data gone. This disrupts the user flow and could easily lead to lost conversions.
Codegarden 2024
Reflecting on my third year as a Codegarden attendee and a first time speaker
umbracodegen
I went down a bit of an Umbraco Bellissima rabbit hole this weekend and built a little tool for myself that I wanted to open source - introducing umbracodegen!
Generating a TypeScript OpenAPI client from Umbraco's Content Delivery API
I recently migrated this site to use Umbraco's Content Delivery API as part of an Astro site, and wanted to generate a TypeScript client to use to pull content.
Green Code: A Blueprint for Eco-Friendly Websites
In 2023 I was honoured to be accepted to write for 24 Days about my favourite topic... sustainability
I'm a 2023 Umbraco MVP!
The cat is out of the bag now and I can announce that I’ve been named an Umbraco MVP for 2023!