Running on Umbraco
As you may know I have been supporting Umbraco, a fantastic .net open source CMS and application framework.
After a few months of debate I have finally bitten the bullet. This weblog is now running with my own customised version of the Umbraco blog extension.
Congrats! Nice work on getting this done with Umbraco. Mind telling us what you customized in the umbracoblog extension?
Tuesday, June 27, 2006@7:42 PM
Hi Peter,
Lot's of small tweaks, but the main work was:
- Tweaking HTML to work with mostly unmodified wordpress CSS theme.
- Add Archive links by (month).
- Adding Display date field rather than using the post date.
- Fixed a few problems with displaying the post Tags when you click through to the post detail.
Let me know if you need any more info!
Thanks.
Darren.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006@9:15 AM
Forgot to mention.
Added a text page template, to create static pages like wordpress does.
I was going to content manage the links on the right hand side, but for now they are just a part of the master template.
Darren.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006@9:42 AM
Hey Darren, great stuff you have here. This is my first foray into .net and umbraco -- I have previously been a wordpress/.php monkey.
My question is this, you mention that you use an unmodified version of a wordpress theme, could you elaborate more on HOW you can do that?! I would love love love to be able to just toss in my wordpress css file into umbraco and have my site transfer.
Thanks Darren!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006@5:18 AM
Hello Bradley,
Welcome aboard.
The best way for you to get started would be to install the latest blog package.
http://umbraco.bruunebonen.com/2006/8/28/latest-umbracoblog-package.aspx
This is using the theme that this site uses. You should then be able to drop your own stylesheet into Umbraco.
I think there are two or three very small Umbraco specific additional styles.
Good luck!
Wednesday, September 20, 2006@9:37 AM