
Chris Houston
I run Vizioz which is an Umbraco Certified Partner with two Umbraco Masters. We are split between the USA and the UK. https://www.vizioz.com Vizioz is a software development agency focusing on Umbraco and .NET development projects. We are the development partner for a number of online businesses who's sites are Umbraco based solutions. If you are looking for a development partner, feel free to get in touch!
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Building Umbraco v8 from the source code is failing ( on my machine! )
Reply by Bobi Mar 02, 2020 @ 03:06

Umbraco.Core.Persistence.Repositories.RepositoryBase violates the constraint of type parameter 'TEntity'
Reply by Chris Houston Feb 14, 2019 @ 14:37

Remove all the TODO / FIXME comments from the distributed versions of Umbraco.
Reply by Chris Houston Jan 29, 2019 @ 22:49

Discussion about the Frontend build process used in the core project.
Reply by ssougnez Nov 16, 2018 @ 14:56

Models Builder - ImplementPropertyType outside of Models folder
Reply by Chris Houston Nov 01, 2018 @ 16:25

Getting started tour is broken
Reply by Chris Houston Aug 13, 2018 @ 15:57

How to enable login with Facebook for select a group of Members.
Reply by Chris Houston Feb 20, 2017 @ 09:31

ERROR Umbraco.Core.MainDom - Error while running callback, remaining callbacks will not run.
Reply by Chris Houston Jul 04, 2016 @ 11:04

Lucene error "[UmbracoExamine] Field XXX is listed multiple times in the index set YYY. Please ensure all names are unique"
Reply by Chris Houston Jun 28, 2016 @ 11:08

How to create a fast search using a custom Examine Index?
Reply by Ismail Mayat Jun 01, 2016 @ 15:45

Bulk content updates not appearing in backoffice
Reply by Chris Houston May 19, 2016 @ 20:37

Most efficient way to re-publish multiple nodes that don't all belong to the same parent.
Reply by Chris Houston May 19, 2016 @ 12:13

Passing parameters to AngularJS when opening a view using the MenuItem LaunchDialogView
Reply by Chris Houston Apr 15, 2016 @ 15:05

How I can localize name of tree nodes in custom section?
Reply by Chris Houston Apr 14, 2016 @ 15:30

Returning a list of IContent items with a grand child item containing a known property.
Reply by Chris Houston Apr 14, 2016 @ 14:34

How can I log failed login attempts for the Umbraco backend?
Reply by keilo Sep 01, 2015 @ 15:15

Primary domain in Umbraco
Reply by Chris Houston Aug 03, 2015 @ 12:15

How to change the default Umbraco Section (i.e. not Content)
Reply by Chris Houston Apr 14, 2015 @ 23:48

Error while importing data for property '', datasource record
Reply by Chris Houston Apr 01, 2015 @ 14:33

Default language for backend login
Reply by Chris Houston Nov 25, 2014 @ 23:51

Can't save when creating custom property
Reply by Chris Houston Aug 18, 2014 @ 11:33

Using uComponents on 4.6.1 is causing an error, any ideas?
Reply by Rob Watkins Apr 04, 2014 @ 17:59

Feed URL seems to be cropped?
Reply by Antoine Dec 16, 2013 @ 15:46
Packages created
FontAwesome Icon Pack
This package adds the complete Font Awesome iconset (version 5.13.0) to your selectable icons within the Umbraco Backoff…
Vizioz.Relationships
This is a simple datatype that allows you to see document relationships and easily jump between related documents. For …
Meta Tags for Umbraco
This is a simple package that when installed adds Title, description and keywords to the header section.To use you simpl…
Packages contributed to
FontAwesome Icon Pack
This package adds the complete Font Awesome iconset (version 5.13.0) to your selectable icons within the Umbraco Backoff…
Contour Contrib
Contour contrib shares several DataSourceTypes, FieldTypes, PrevalueTypes and WorkflowTypes for Umbraco Contour. Upd…
Packages voted up
XML Dump
If you’ve been developing XSLT for Umbraco, you’ve probably already done your share of <textarea>…
Updated: 08 March 2021
FamFamFam Icons
FamFamFam icons have to be one of the most (if not the most) popular icon package on the net. So big thanks to Mark Jame…
Updated: 06 August 2020
Vizioz.PalettePicker
A customizable colour palette picker for the Umbraco CMS, allowing editors to select a palette from a predefined choice …
Updated: 02 March 2020
Robots.txt Editor
New for Umbraco 8, Robots.txt Editor v8! Adds a dashboard editor to the settings section, which allows access to your R…
Updated: 06 February 2020
Contour Contrib
Contour contrib shares several DataSourceTypes, FieldTypes, PrevalueTypes and WorkflowTypes for Umbraco Contour. Upd…
Updated: 07 January 2020
PDF Creator
For PDF creator licensing please visit https://www.moriyama.co.uk/products/pdf-creator-for-umbraco/ Easily generat…
Updated: 08 July 2019
Twitter for Umbraco
This has been confirmed to work with version 4.5 of Umbraco Description This package allows you to display your recent…
Updated: 14 June 2018
Google Maps DataType
Version 2.0 is a rewrite of the data-type to use the Google Map v3 API, you are no longer required to assign an API ke…
Updated: 14 June 2018
uComponents
uComponents is a collaborative project for creating components for Umbraco including data types, XSLT extensions, c…
Updated: 14 June 2018
301 Moved Permanently
Enables website administrators to configure 301 Moved Permanently redirects for old content pages/urls. This is achieved…
Updated: 14 June 2018
Insert Flash
Insert flash: Macro that allow end-users to insert flash from the editor. Description of macro parameters: Flash f…
Updated: 09 October 2015
Editors Manual
SUMMARY This project provides a base Editors Manual to guide editors through the Umbraco interface and provides step by…
Updated: 13 June 2015
uSiteBuilder Import
PLEASE USE THIS FAR BETTER PACKAGE http://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/usitebuilder-admin :) …
Updated: 13 June 2015
Standard Values in Umbraco
This package adds a Standard Values folder in the Settings section of Umbraco, which allows you to add standard values t…
Updated: 13 June 2015
Broken Link Checker
IMPORTANT: Dashboard RSS 1.01 *must be installed* prior to installing this package. Get it from http://our.umbraco.org/p…
Updated: 13 June 2015
Package Actions Contrib
Package Actions Contrib contains several package actions for Umbraco that are build by members of the community. Package…
Updated: 13 June 2015
uREST
The uREST package adds a set of RESTful web services to Umbraco for manipulating documents/media/members from exte…
Updated: 13 June 2015
Document Type Dashboard
This package is a simple dashboard control that enables you to quickly view and edit your Document Types. It allow…
Updated: 13 June 2015
Pixlr
The Pixlr package makes it possible to edit your Media images with Pixlr, an online image editor. You can choose betwe…
Updated: 13 June 2015
OAuth Login to Umbraco Backend
I always want log into backoffice using my google account instead of username/password. And after MS introduce AspN…
Updated: 12 March 2014