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Ironically, this question gets asked a lot, so I thought I would show you how simple and easy it is to create an FAQs page in Umbraco using the Archetype package, in 7 easy steps.

This post shows you how to protect media in Umbraco. It works on the idea that you can put the media you want to protect in a parent folder, perhaps called 'Protected'. In that you can have your files and folders which are not public. But you can also have public media files and folders which can be seen by all.

This post gives you the code to help you build an API url with the parameters and a quick way to call a simple get method and parse the results to the object you are expecting back from the API.

This post shows you how you can create a custom Html Helper Extension Method for your own Umbraco and MVC projects.

This post shows you how you can use package actions to modify, update, or set configurations for your Umbraco site on your package install event.

This guide walks you Through how to set up AppVeyor for continuous delivery of an MVC or Umbraco site.

This post shows you how to fix the error No physical template file was found for template X. There is an animated which shows you how to fix it.

You may have used it before, or you may be using it now and the thought might go through your head "Why is Umbraco so rubbish" or other words to that effect.

This post shows you how you can migrate or downgrade a SQL Server database from one version to a lower or earlier one. E.g. 2016 to 2014, 2014 to 2012, 2012 to 2008 etc

If you use Umbraco and you create forms using MVC and razor, perhaps a contact form, you might want to populate a dropdownlist with data controlled by the Umbraco backoffice. This post shows you how to do that.

This post gives you step by step instructions for how to deploy an ASP.NET website. In the video I'm using an Umbraco site as an example, but it applies to any ASP.NET website. If you are unsure of any of the steps then watch the video.

This post shows you how to search by specific document types and fields in umbraco, using Examine.