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This post gives you simple instructions to help you reset the Umbraco admin password.

This post gives you the basic code to loop through the pages in your site and populate the navigation model. It also gives you the code to add it to and call it from the cache.

Most websites will have an HTML sitemap. There is an easy way to create one in Umbraco using razor. Just follow these simple steps.

This post shows you how to get the file path of the item so you can use it for the src of an image or as a link to a document.

This post is a step by step tutorial with instructions for creating a simple login form and logout button in Umbraco MVC.

This post gives you a tutorial on how to create a page view hit counter in Umbraco for recording page views.

This post shows you how to overcome the problems with installing the Dialogue forum package in your Umbraco site.

Using the umbracoUrlAlias property on a page in Umbraco gives you the ability to set up one or more different URLs for a single page. The page structure of your site might create long URLs, and you may want to a shorter one, the umbracoUrlAlias will do that for you. Or a page may have previously existed with a different URL, and you want to catch the traffic going to that URL and get them to look at this page, the umbracoUrlAlias will do that for you as well.

This post gives you a step by step guide on how to install Umbraco on your local machine using Visual Studio, NuGet, IIS and SQL Server.

In Umbraco, you may want to perform certain actions when a content item or member is being saved or created. This post shows you how to do that. This is relevant for Umbraco projects that use MVC.

This post shows you how easy it is to use the default Umbraco search functionality in your site. It uses a basic form and then uses razor to display your search results.

This post teaches you how to set rewrite rules for your umbraco site. You may want to force your site to go to a secure url or force it to go to a url with www. at the start. To add these rules, you need to go to the file /config/UrlRewriting.config