Umbraco CMS Documentation

Umbraco Cloud is a fully managed hosting platform for Umbraco CMS, built on Microsoft Azure. It provides a managed environment for installation, infrastructure, and security, allowing developers to build and host websites with built-in scaling, backups, and a global CDN.

Key features include:

• Managed Hosting: Hosted on Azure with automatic backups, HTTPS, and scaling.
• DevOps Workflow: Git-based workflows with built-in CI/CD and structured environments (Development, Staging, Live).
• Local Development: Developers can clone projects from the Cloud to a local PC, Linux, or macOS machine for local development.
• Deployment: A safe mechanism to move, test, and deploy changes from local/development environments to the public live site.

Umbraco Engage AI provides a marketing-focused Copilot within the Umbraco Engage section. It allows users to ask questions about marketing data—such as campaigns, segments, goals, personas, traffic, and A/B tests—using plain language instead of manual dashboard navigation.

Key Characteristics:

• Read-only: The AI reports and explains data; it cannot modify your Engage configuration or data.
• Dual Surface Support: Works via the Copilot sidebar in the backoffice and through Copilot Workspace.
• Configurable: The agent's behavior, tone, and model are shaped by configurable Instructions, AI Profiles, and Context resources rather than hardcoded logic.

Umbraco Engage provides a suite of tools designed for marketers and editors to optimize website performance and user experience. The platform includes capabilities for tracking visitor behavior, conducting experiments, and personalizing content.

Key functional areas include:

• Analytics: Monitor website traffic and visitor behavior.
• A/B Testing: Run experiments to compare different versions of content or layouts.
• Personalization: Tailor the website experience to specific user segments.
• Profiling: Track visitor sessions and manage the distinction between identified and anonymous visitors.
• Content Apps: Use specialized UI enhancements within the Umbraco backoffice to improve content management workflows.
• Settings: Configure global behaviors such as IP address exclusion and goal implementation.

Umbraco Heartcore provides official client libraries to simplify interaction with its API endpoints. Instead of manually implementing HTTP calls for every endpoint, you can use these libraries to connect directly to your Umbraco Heartcore project.

Key features:

• Pre-configured API endpoint implementations.
• Open source and free to use.
• Includes sample projects for rapid testing and exploration.

Connection to your Heartcore project typically requires configuring specific parameters (such as API keys or project identifiers) within the library setup.

Umbraco.AI is a provider-agnostic AI integration layer for Umbraco CMS. It is built on top of Microsoft.Extensions.AI (M.E.AI), allowing you to integrate various AI services like OpenAI or Azure OpenAI using a consistent API and backoffice experience.

Key features include:

• Provider-agnostic architecture: Use specific provider packages for the services you need.
• Profile-based configuration: Create reusable profiles for different AI use cases.
• Standardized types: Uses standard M.E.AI types such as IChatClient and ChatMessage.
• Extensible middleware: Supports adding logging, caching, rate limiting, and custom behaviors.
• Backoffice integration: Manage connections and profiles directly through the Umbraco UI.

Umbraco Engage is a marketing suite designed for both marketers and developers to create personalized, data-driven website experiences. It provides capabilities for:

• Analytics: Tracking visitor behavior.
• A/B Testing: Running experiments to optimize content.
• Targeted Campaigns: Delivering personalized experiences based on visitor data.

For developers looking for headless implementations, refer to the Headless package documentation.

Umbraco Engage provides tools for both marketers and developers. Marketers can use it to create personalized content, while developers can integrate the system into their existing infrastructure. The documentation is split into two primary tracks:

• For Marketers and Editors: Focuses on configuring the system, understanding features, and optimizing content personalization.
• For Developers: Focuses on technical integration, infrastructure setup, and implementation details.

Umbraco Commerce can be extended using several official add-on packages. These packages are designed to add specific features and functionality to a core Umbraco Commerce installation:

• Cart: Provides a drop-in cart solution.
• Checkout: Adds additional functionality to the checkout flow.
• Portal: Adds customer-specific functionalities.
• Deploy: Enables the use of Umbraco Deploy with Umbraco Commerce.
• Product feeds: An XML feed generator plugin that extracts product data from Umbraco nodes to generate structured XML feeds.