our company recently picked up a couple of Umbraco sites to maintain and these sites were in a terrible condition when we picked the project up. We are slowly improving the processes like adding source control, backups, upgrading a few of these etc., but it is going slowly as there is a good number of them and each has its "specialties".
As part of this process we created a new open source package called uCop. It currently shows the site structure by document types, with links to live content, allowed templates and editable properties all in a single view, helping you to understand a new site quickly. We are thinking about extending this package in the near future to include some dynamic analysis, like checking for naming conventions, finding duplicate or very similar templates, and more, to highlight issues we should look into, and to prevent any nasty surprises when making some changes that might have unexpected side effects. Feel free to try uCop now and see if it helps, you can submit any issues you run into on our GitHub page, or simply post feedback here, we love feedback!
The question I wanted to throw out is: What are your pains when maintaining Umbraco sites? What bad practices are giving you a hard time working with a site?
Maintaining a large website? What are your pains?
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Hi guys,
our company recently picked up a couple of Umbraco sites to maintain and these sites were in a terrible condition when we picked the project up. We are slowly improving the processes like adding source control, backups, upgrading a few of these etc., but it is going slowly as there is a good number of them and each has its "specialties".
As part of this process we created a new open source package called uCop. It currently shows the site structure by document types, with links to live content, allowed templates and editable properties all in a single view, helping you to understand a new site quickly. We are thinking about extending this package in the near future to include some dynamic analysis, like checking for naming conventions, finding duplicate or very similar templates, and more, to highlight issues we should look into, and to prevent any nasty surprises when making some changes that might have unexpected side effects. Feel free to try uCop now and see if it helps, you can submit any issues you run into on our GitHub page, or simply post feedback here, we love feedback!
The question I wanted to throw out is: What are your pains when maintaining Umbraco sites? What bad practices are giving you a hard time working with a site?
Thanks!
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