MediaWizards Grimoire

Welcome to the Grimoire,

These days I find myself getting more involved with the Umbraco community, so decided to use this site to keep track of things I have come across and had to deal with while developing sites using Umbraco.

Building a Custom Tiptap Extension for Umbraco

This guide walks through building a real Tiptap extension for the Umbraco backoffice — a DateTime inserter that lets editors insert the current date, time, or both into a Rich Text Editor (RTE) field from a toolbar dropdown menu

Building a Custom Collection View with Images in Umbraco 17

building a custom collection view for Umbraco 17 that displays documents as beautiful cards with images, using the new extension system and Lit Element web components.

Building a Dynamic Image Watermarking System with SixLabors.ImageSharp.Web

In this post, I'll show you how to build a flexible, on-the-fly watermarking system using SixLabors.ImageSharp.Web that doesn't require modifying your original images.

Why Umbraco Keeps Redirecting You to the Install Screen

If you’ve just deployed an Umbraco site and it keeps bouncing you back to the installer, take a breath — you’re not alone. This is one of the most common “I’m losing my mind” moments in the Umbraco world, and the good news is: the root cause is almost always the same.

Building a Custom Polls Feature in Umbraco 17

Building a Custom Polls Feature in Umbraco 17 Backoffice. A complete, modern walkthrough for extending the new backoffice

Building a Custom Search Engine

Building a Better Search for the MediaWiz.Forums package: The Tale of One Developer, One Upgrade, and One Very Stubborn Query

Building a Larson Scanner

The Larson Scanner is one of those timeless electronics projects, brought to you here on the Raspberry Pi

Installing the Forums

This guide walks you through installing the MediaWiz Forums package in your Umbraco project. You’ll go from “fresh install” to “forum is live at /forums” in just a few steps.

Configuring TinyMCE in Umbraco 14

In this article I will explain how to configure the TinyMCE rich text editor in Umbraco v14