Techniques for customizing and extending Umbraco

Let’s review, in theory, a few real-life advanced example techniques that illustrate the flexibility and scalability that Umbraco offers.

Building custom property editors for enhanced content creation

Imagine a media company that needs to manage a vast library of multimedia assets, like videos, images, and audio, within Umbraco. Standard property editors are too limited for this purpose, as the media company needs advanced metadata tagging, file categorization, and asset previews right within the editor.

A potential solution would be to build custom property editors using Blazor (or another client framework like React) and Umbraco’s APIs, allowing content editors to add metadata tags, preview files, and categorize assets easily. These custom editors could dramatically improve the efficiency of the content team at a low cost by centralizing asset management and minimizing the need for third-party tools.

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