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Diplo God Mode

Diplo God Mode makes Umbraco developers invincible!

This custom tree in the Settings section of Umbraco 10, 9 or 8 (or Developer section if you are using the v7 version) allows you to browse, query and search your document types and compositions; your templates and partials; your datatypes and property editors; your media library; your custom controllers and models. It also provides diagnostics about your Umbraco set-up and the server it is running on.

For instance, you can:

Quickly search doc types, templates, editors, media etc.
Easily see which doc types inherit from any of your compositions
See which document types use which property editor or data type instance
Distinguish between element types and types that vary by culture or segment
See which partials are used by all your templates (and which are cached)
Find out which data types are being used (or not)
View all content pages in a searchable and filterable table (using fast, server-side pagination)
View all Umbraco members and filter them by assigned group
Browse all media in the Media Library and filter by type
See which controllers (Surface, API and RenderMvc) are being used and in what namespaces and DLLs
View all generated models (that inherit from PublishedContentModel)
Clear internal Umbraco caches, bump the Client Dependency or even restart App Pool
View diagnostics and configuration settings about your Umbraco site and hosting environment
Warm up compilation of all templates ("views") in one bound... erm, click.
View the raw JSON for nuCache entries for content nodes
Uses Umbraco's infinite editor functionality for seamless editing
Plus lots more!

Demo

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLjTV5LMp44&t=7s (v7)

Blog Post: https://www.diplo.co.uk/blog/web-development/god-mode-comes-to-umbraco-9/ (v9 / 10)

Blog Post: https://www.diplo.co.uk/blog/web-development/god-mode-umbraco-8-package/ (v8)

Important! Versions

The 10.x version is for Umbraco 10. Use NuGet to install.

The 9.x version is for Umbraco 9. Use NuGet to install.

Use the 2.x version for Umbraco 8.3 and above.

Use the 1.x version for Umbraco 7. For more info on the v7 version please read this post.

Usage

After installation (or update) you should see an new God Mode tree in the Settings (Third Party) section within Umbraco.

If you have any issues with this then try restarting your site and bumping the ClientDependency.config version in the /config/ folder of your Umbraco installation (for the v8 version). Clearing your browser cache can also help with cached script files. Check your browser developer console for issues.

Further information can be found in this blog post.