Lee Kelleher

Bit.ly Url Shortener DataType for Umbraco

:: “Over the weekend, I coded up a little treat… a Bit.ly Url Shortener data-type for Umbraco! The new data-type lets you shorten your Umbraco page URLs using the Bit.ly API service. For more information, go to the project page over on Our Umbraco. Tagged: Bit.ly, DataType, Umbraco, URL, Url Sh ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Jan 9

Updated Robots.txt Editor for Umbraco

:: “Last night I released version 2 of the Robots.txt Editor for Umbraco. Changes & new features: Restructured the package files, they all live in a folder called “robots-txt” (still under the /umbraco folder – but self-contained) Errors are now displayed using the Feedback contro ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Jan 8

How to use umbraco.library GetMedia in XSLT

:: “From time to time I notice a reoccurring post over at the Our Umbraco forum; how to display an image (from the Media section) in XSLT? A quick answer can be found on the Our Umbraco wiki for the umbraco.library GetMedia method. For most uses, the last example in the wiki works great.  But I want to ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Nov 30

WordPress Plugin Development: Beginner’s Guide, by Vladimir Prelovac

:: “ I have recently finished reading Vladimir Prelovac book on WordPress plug-in development, (WordPress Plug-in Development: Beginner’s Guide, Packt Publishing, 2009). As an experienced WordPress plug-in developer, I was pessimistic at the start – there is already a wealth of documentation ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Oct 20

Putting your ASP.NET Web Application in Maintenance Mode (using ISAPI_Rewrite)

:: “Prompted by @slace’s tweet:

i wish there was a way to use app_offline but still view from certain ip’s

I replied with a suggestion that we’ve used in the past. Aaron said I should blog about it… so here I am (again)! A while ago we needed to do an U ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Sep 29

How to convert NameValueCollection to a (Query) String [Revised]

:: “Following on from a comment on my previous post about converting a NameValueCollection to a (query) string – I have finally got around to revising my code snippet.  Now the method will handle same key multiple values, (it no longer comma-separates them). I have also added extra parameters so ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Sep 19

Umbraco: Ultimate Picker XSLT Example

:: “Chatting with Dan (my partner-in-code at Bodenko) about the Ultimate Picker data-type in Umbraco, we realised that we couldn’t find any examples of how to use the data in XSLT. So obviously needing an excuse to write-up a new blog post, here we go. If you need a quick overview about the Ultim ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Sep 8

Robots.txt Editor for Umbraco

:: “Following up on my recent post of using Robots.txt with Umbraco, I decided that it would be nice to be able to edit the robots.txt directly from the Umbraco back-end.  (Also I wanted to play a bit more with the BaseTree/ITree classes). This afternoon I had a few hours to spare – actually I wa ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Jul 20

Add YouTube Plug-in to Umbraco/TinyMCE

:: “Update: Following on from Dirk and Ismail’s comments, I found out that this YouTube plug-in does not work with TinyMCE v3 (which is the default richtext editor in Umbraco v4). This guide is written to works  for Umbraco v3 only, (using TinyMCE v ...” Lee Kelleher's Weblog | Jul 16