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    Documentation for Umbraco

    Getting Started

    All the basics of using Umbraco. From your first local installation, to a fully functional customized CMS.

    Implementation

    Get an overview of how the Umbraco pipeline is structured. Learn how to write queries and use the APIs.

    Extending

    Documentation on the areas in Umbraco that are extendable such as customizing backoffice UI and creating packages.

    Developers' Reference

    Code reference for Umbraco's management APIs, templating, querying, searching and more.


    Tutorials

    Step by step tutorials.

    Umbraco Add ons

    Everything you need to know about Forms and Courier, the two premium packages developed and supported by HQ.

    Development Guidelines

    How to work with the Umbraco codebase.

    Cheatsheets

    Cheatsheets for overview of different areas like the Razor API and Views syntax.

    Contributing

    *The documentation project is open source and hosted on GitHub. If you have any corrections or additions to the documentation clone the project and make a pull request.

    Getting Started contributing to the documentation. Guidelines for Umbraco documentation*