Welcome to the umbraco Christmas Calendar – 24 small and large tips ‘n’ tricks over the next – surprise – 24 days. We’ll start out nice and slow:
Every day is almost like Christmas when working with umbraco. We don’t have a santa, but we do have a Christmas tree online 24-7. It’s called the Package Repository and if you’re not aware about its existence, you’re missing a lot.
The package repository is a centralized server containing packages approved by the Package Repository Group (PRG). It already contain useful packages to speed up your development, but much more are on its way as the fine folk of the PRG is hunting, testing and collecting packages around the community.
The Package Repository is completely integrated into umbraco v3 and can be accessed by:
- Right click “Macros” in the “Developer” section and choose “Import Package”:
- In the pop-up window select “Browse Package Repository” and you’re now in the candy store ready to automatically download and install packages to your umbraco installation.
Throughout this Calendar I’ll be using several of the packages in the repository and with a little luck the repository will already grow in December.
The Package Repository can grow asynchronously with the umbraco core, meaning that your umbraco installation will get access to more and more functionality as the community grows – umbraco will simply become better the more people are using it.
So go ahead and explore the Repository and play around with the packages. See you again tomorrow for more tips ‘n’ tricks in December