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Latest Features & Updates In Umbraco V8.0.2

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Jane Brewer

Umbraco CMS uses ASP.net for development and is becoming one of the most popular platforms for professional programmers. It is an open source which provides some of the most useful documentation for ease of development. You can make use of the Umbraco CMS development platform to develop a range of small to large scale websites and web applications.

The company just recently introduced the latest version 8, where they provide some major changes for everyone.

Three new features have been introduced in Umbraco 8: Infinite Editing, Language Variants, and Content Apps. They have also cleaned up the codebase entirely and improved the performance and stability of the CMS overall. All these measures have been taken in order to make the CMS more straightforward and attract more users to Umbraco.

Infinite Editing

Infinite Editing allows users to slide uninterrupted through their tasks in the Umbraco back office system. The editing flows for those who manage and edit content and developers has been improved to make the experience more intuitive and frictionless. As an example, if someone wants to add an image that supports the website copy, one will not need to jump to separate media section in order to make the necessary edits only to lose track of where they started. Infinite Editing will let you stay on track and never lose the context they were originally working in.

And to take Infinite Editing to the very infinite-level, you can even customize your flows so they genuinely become intuitive as they will fit the way you need to work in your Umbraco back office. Now that’s interesting!

Overall, this is fantastic news for content editors, since it will make working with content smoother and a lot easier.

Language Variants


The team at Umbraco wants you to remove the workarounds, hacks, and syncing with external packages. Since in Umbraco 8, the management of language variants is part of the CMS, their engineers, based on popular demand, made it possible to update, create, and manage multilingual content in a much simpler way.

There are numerous built-in features such as the side-by-side editing view, the ability to switch between languages in preview mode for easy comparison, and the ease to set up mandatory languages. These are just some new features among many which will make it simpler to work and update the multilingual content on the Umbraco 8 CMS.

Content Apps


What about the latest blog posts that you upload? Or the whitepapers? Did you know how many people downloaded your content? Or, do you know what is the readability score of your content? And what about the keywords, did you place the right keywords in the copy?

The latest version of Umbraco has gives you the ability to install and build various content-based apps. And all these questions can be answered directly from where the editor will need them, in the admin tool. With content apps, one will be able to provide editors with tools that will help gather, measure, check, and learn about the content.

You can think of it like a content companion where it provides insightful data and tips to make the website’s content relevant.

Conclusion


Umbraco is new and hence enjoys the benefit of learning from its predecessors and leading content management systems in the market. The Umbraco community is growing fast and strong, with support coming from across the globe. Many small and medium businesses have also started embracing Umbraco CMS into their operations.

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