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Umbraco 9 - Strip HTML and Truncate text/html output.  The code below can be used for truncating/shortening text and striping out HTML tags in Umbraco 9 to display shorter text useful for landing pages. Instructions:  Replace "bodyText" with the reference to the property you would like to truncate. Code: Example output:

How to display the current year in Razor and in Umbraco 7  @DateTime.Now.Year For example: <p>Copyright &copy; @DateTime.Now.Year </p> I use this on a lot of my umbraco websites for keeping the copyright up to date.  You can see an example of this on the footer of my most recent Umbraco website design at: http://www.markdevelopment.co.uk/portfolio/abercromby-heating-and-plumbing-services/

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage @{ var home = CurrentPage.Site(); } @if (home.Children.Any()) {     @* Get the first page in the children *@     var naviLevel = home.Children.First().Level;     var listChildPages = "false";     @* Add in level for a CSS hook *@     <ul style="margin-top:0px;paddin:0px;font-size:16px;">                 @* For each child page under the home node *@         <li><a href="/" title="@CurrentPage._siteTitle">Home</a></li>         @foreach (var childPage in home.Children.Where("Visible"))         {             if (childPage.Children.Any() && listChildPages =="true"  && childPage.id != 111...

@{            var SEOTitle = "";         var SEODescription = "";         var SEOKeywords = "";      }      @if(CurrentPage.seoTitle != null && CurrentPage.seoTitle != "")      {         SEOTitle = CurrentPage.seoTitle;      }      else      {         SEOTitle = @CurrentPage.Url.Replace("/"," | ") + @CurrentPage._siteTitle;         SEOTitle = SEOTitle.Substring(2, SEOTitle.Length-2);      }          @if(CurrentPage.seoDescription != null && CurrentPage.seoDesctiption != "")      {         SEODescription = CurrentPage.seoDescription;  ...

How to Allow the user to Hide a Page from Navigation in Umbraco 7. By using a tick box: This example shows hide the Search Results page from the main navigation in umbraco 7. 1)  In your Document Type add a property called "umbracoNaviHide", it must be called "umbracoNaviHide" The property should be a tick box, so it should be a "True/False " 2) In your Navigation, add the highlighted code to your for each loop that writes out the navigation:   @foreach(var p in homePage.Children() .Where("visible") )                         {                             write out navigation 3) Now when the user ticks Hide from Nav in the backend, the page will not show in the navigation: