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Rick Butterfield
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Senior Developer at Umbraco. Part of the Umbraco Sustainability Team. All things .NET, Umbraco, CSS and digital sustainability 💻🍃
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Happy Friday and happy #umbracoTees day!

Looking forward to catching up with the community next week at #UmbracoInTheCity! 🐝 @umbmanchester.bsky.social
A selfie of Rick with a computer desk, laptop, large monitor, keyboard and mouse in the background. The computer screen displays the Umbraco in the City logo and website.
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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timbl.bsky.social
In 4 days my memoir 📕 'This Is for Everyone' will be published. The book tour kicks off the same day with many more events following.

Follow the journey on the book's Instagram -
instagram.com/sirtimberner...
September 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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umbmanchester.bsky.social
🎤 Umbraco In The City is coming to Manchester – 7 Nov 2025!

🎟️ Tickets out now + CFP open (closes 22 Sept)

👉 Submit a talk: sessionize.com/umbraco-in-t...

Find all the details here & tickets: www.umbracointhe.city
August 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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New patch versions of BlockPreview are here for Umbraco 15 and 16! A bug fix for the preview not being updated when a block's Settings are changed, and a community contribution for an incorrect null check! github.com/rickbutterfi...
Releases · rickbutterfield/BlockPreview
Easy to use rich HTML backoffice previews for the Umbraco Block List and Block Grid editors. - rickbutterfield/BlockPreview
github.com
August 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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A Friday afternoon blog for ya! Adding 2FA (+ recovery codes) for #umbraco Members

rickbutterfield.dev/blog/adding-...
Adding 2FA (+ recovery codes) for Umbraco Members - Rick Butterfield
3× Umbraco MVP, Speaker and Lead Software Engineer
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July 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Unfortunately I didn't get in to the London Marathon, and the Manchester Marathon is a little while away yet, so I thought I'd do a fun little challenge to raise money for @alderhey.nhs.uk @alderheycharity.org in November!

www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...
Overnight 5K for Alder Hey
Help Rick Butterfield raise money to support Alder Hey Children's Charity
www.justgiving.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Most exciting thing from @umbmanchester.bsky.social tonight! #umbraco
umbmanchester.bsky.social Umbraco Manchester @umbmanchester.bsky.social · Jul 24
🐝 Bee prepared.
Something brilliant will be buzzing in Manchester this November.

🗓️ 7 November 2025
📍 x+Why, Manchester

🎬 Watch the teaser 👇
#UmbracoInTheCity #Umbraco #ManchesterTech #Manchester #BeePrepared
July 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Today's main job was to get 2FA recovery codes working with Umbraco Members... and it's been successful!

Blog post coming at some point soon 👀

#umbraco
July 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Better late than never I suppose... my recap of Codegarden 2025! (along with a little site design refresh 👀) #umbraco

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Codegarden 2025 - Rick Butterfield
3× Umbraco MVP, Speaker and Lead Software Engineer
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July 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Happy #umbracoTees day y’all! Today’s tee of choice is the 20th anniversary Codegarden one 👕 @umbraco.com
A selfie of Rick, who has dark hair, a dark beard and glasses. He is wearing a navy tshirt with a large “20” print on it and “Umbraco Codegarden” underneath. The background is an office room with a shelving unit and a window.
July 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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owain.codes
#UmbracoTees day is tomorrow!! Get your Tshirts / Swag at the ready!!

isitumbracoteesday.today

#umbraco
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July 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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For your Wednesday enjoyment. They sound *so* tight on Banquet.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p8T...
Bloc Party: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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scott.is
MERCH TIME ✌️

'Design For Real Humans' tee available now. It's lush and I love it!

Screen-printed in the UK on 100% cotton, 203 g/m² Gildan Ultra!!

Show yer mates you're cool AND good at drawing rectangles!!!

Buy one so I can buy my dog treats!!!!!!

mindful-design.square.site/product/desi...
A close cropped photo of a man sat at a table wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans' A man sat at a table, using a laptop, wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans' A man outdoors wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans' A man outdoors wearing a t-shirt that says 'Design for Real Humans'
July 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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owain.codes
#UmbracoTees day announcement - lets get over the #codegarden blues with an UmbracoTees day.

Put a reminder in your diary - July 18th is the date! Spread the word

isitumbracoteesday.today
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ALT: a neon sign that says attention on a black background
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July 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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piccalil.li
We're incredibly in to Astro here at Piccalilli. Our whole infrastructure is built around it we're calling it now: this feature is going to rocket-boost the framework's usage.

astro.build/blog/live-co...
Live Content Collections: A Deep Dive | Astro
Explore Astro 5.10's experimental live content collections - bringing real-time data to your Astro sites with the same familiar API you know and love.
astro.build
July 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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umbraco.com
Still spiritually located at #Codegarden?

Or missed it and now feel suspiciously left out? This is your moment. The aftermovie is now live.

Your friends (or future friends) are in it.

Never been? Consider this your official invitation for 2026!
umbra.co/3TjX1DG

#Umbraco
Codegarden 2025 aftermovie is here 🎉
See the highlights of this year's conference!
umbra.co
July 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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mattbrailsford.dev
Are you a shiny new #Umbraco MVP? Then don't forget to add your account this list in order to get your BlueSky MVP label github.com/mattbrailsfo...

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, checkout my blog post about it mattbrailsford.dev/introducing-...
June 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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It must be nearly #Codegarden time! ✈️
A white Ryanair branded plane on the tarmac, with a queue of people boarding on the left hand side
June 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Upgraded my Cloud hosted site to Umbraco 16 this morning with zero hiccups!
June 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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BlockPreview v4 is here! 🚀

Now that Umbraco 16 has been released, BlockPreview has been updated to support it and brings back a well-loved Block Grid and Block List feature that hasn't made it to the new backoffice yet... Sort Mode!

www.nuget.org/packages/Umb...
Umbraco.Community.BlockPreview 4.0.0
Easy to use rich HTML backoffice previews for the Umbraco Block List and Block Grid editors
www.nuget.org
June 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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piccalil.li
Those 15 years have flown by and everything has changed since then too.

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/respon...
Responsive web design turns fifteen. — ethanmarcotte.com
The original “Responsive Web Design” article was published fifteen years ago. Time’s weird, man.
ethanmarcotte.com
May 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Happy #GAAD and #UMBRAAD day! 45 minutes until talks start... www.meetup.com/umbraco-virt...
UMBRAAD, Thu, May 15, 2025, 10:45 AM | Meetup
Despite growing awareness, accessibility is still too often overlooked in digital projects. Barriers remain—from code-level issues to content gaps to strategic misunderstan
www.meetup.com
May 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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New releases of BlockPreview out today!

v1 and v3 have been updated thanks to some detective work on the @umbraco.com forum forum.umbraco.com/t/block-prev...

v4 has been updated to support the newly released v16.0.0-rc2
Block Preview reports document type invalid
Works for me. Thanks for the super-quick response 🙂
forum.umbraco.com
May 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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ContentAudit: first class site crawling and SEO auditing for Umbraco. Launching in beta today! 🚀

I’ve been working on this on and off for about 6 months. Available now for Umbraco 13 and 15!

rickbutterfield.dev/blog/content...
ContentAudit: first class site crawling and SEO auditing for Umbraco - Rick Butterfield
Umbraco MVP, Speaker and Full Stack Lead Software Engineer
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May 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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owain.codes
Hey #Umbraco community. If you are looking to hire a developer for a full time role, I'm available.

Feel free to drop me a DM, even if you just want a chat.

Please share with anyone you know 👍
May 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM