ubase - What is it?
A base Visual Studio solution for Umbraco 8.1+.
The solution is a SOLID foundation of common patterns, folder structures, and website features which are widely accepted as "best practice" in the Umbraco community. USync definitions in this solution provide a foundation set of document types and datatypes.
Note: This is not meant to be a "starter kit" per se, nor is it meant to have a load of features which are toggled.
Setup Instructions
- Fork/copy this repository, then build in Visual Studio
- Run application and go through standard Umbraco setup WITHOUT a starter kit
- Go to Settings section -> usych, and click Import
- Go to Content section, create Root and Home nodes.
Base Functionality
Visual Studio Structure
- Application.Web - Umbraco
- Application.Core - Builders, Services
- Application.Models - Models Builder, other application models
Web.config
Redirects
- Remove "/""
- Redirect to https (enabled by default)
- Internal rewrite to /ErrorPages/500.html
Optimisations
- Gzip static files
Common Pages
- 500.html (static)
- Robots.txt (content managed)
- Sitemap.xml (generated)
Umbraco
Core DocumentTypes
- Site Container (houses Site and Repository Container)
- Site (requires selection of Home node)
- Configuration (lives in Site node)
- Repository Container (for housing of partial content/elements)
Page DocumentTypes
- Home (lives under Site Root)
- Base Page (implements Page Settings Mixin)
- Page Settings Mixin (includes SEO & scripts)
Content Node Structure
A base node structure is provided which allows flexibility, multi-websites and separation of partial data elements.
- Site Container
- Website (put hostname here)
- Home
- Eror404
- Data Repositories
- Website (put hostname here)
Note: Data repositories are a common way to store partial content/elements which need to be referenced across your website. For example:
- Taxonomies
- Categories
- News Tags
- Global Tags
- Locations
- Authors
- External Links
Umbraco Packages
- USync
- Meganav (TBD)
- SiteLock (TBD)