Welcome to the uMazel Starter Kit

After a long time, please welcome our updated Starter Kit for Umbraco version 8.9.1+.

Well, let's just call it "kit" since it's not a "starter" thing any more :)

Known features from previous version:

Global scripts (head, body start, body end)
Open Graph and Meta tags for all pages
Default OG type for all pages if OG type field is empty
Infer OG Description and OG Title from specific property aliases (if present on a page)
Copy OG data to Meta data if empty
Ability to add the site name as suffix to all browser titles
Customizable logo and Favicon
Mailchimp integration
Automatic or manual setup of navigation menu
Hide or show breadcrumbs option
Custom titles for menus, browser, breadcrumb, in-page and title override per page
Redirect a page to its first sub-page or another site page

A lot of new features have been added in this version!

General:

Sections:

All sections are now Block Elements
Ability to disable a block element (similar to unpublish in normal nodes)
Section pickers use custom preview images (not very useful, but fancy!)
Sections containing collections of items show number of items they contain in the Block List interface
Animations, paddings and margins and other common settings for each section in the Settings area

Images:

Responsive images (almost) anywhere, even when background images are used (with focal point preservation).
Support for 2x, 3x densities and a maximum image size to be rendered on the front end to avoid huge images for large resolutions
Customizable dynamic responsive image generation via config file

Open Graph and Meta tags:

Inheritable Open Graph properties for all pages with the option to inherit only specific OG tag values to child pages
Default OG tags for all pages
Url and Language Meta Tag creation option
Custom Meta tags and Http-Equiv tags per page
Use OG image from default language (if empty) option

Scripts:

Global scripts can now have names and be categorized as Marketing, Statistics, or Essential depending on the type of cookies they emit (if any)
Per-page scripts in addition to global site scripts

Product list (new content functionality):

New Products List section with image-based custom product list in the back office, featuring 2,3, and 4-column layouts, custom currency, discounted prices, hide prices option, customizable number of products per page.
New Product Pages with customizable attributes and image list

Cookie consent:

Customizable Cookie Consent popup with the option to accept all cookies or load only essential cookies

New back office functionality:

Option to customize daily login messages and login background image from within Umbraco
Option to create a custom introductory dashboard from within the Umbraco back office
Ability to automatically hide unpublished variants from content tree in the back office and right-click option to toggle between hiding and showing

Blog updates:

New blog article list layout with 2,3, or 4 columns and option to have sidebar on left or right
RSS discovery Url in metas
Configurable number of RSS items

Site Search:

New Site Search interface based on Examine
Customizable Indexer use for search
Per-page option to exclude a single page or a whole hierarchy of pages from search results

Sitemaps:

Automatically populated XML sitemap pages with per-page option to exclude a single page or a whole hierarchy from the sitemap.
Per-page sitemap priority setting
Option for automatically created Site Map Index page

Other:

Option to redirect a page to its first sub-page, another site page, or an external URL, as Permanent or Temporary
Ability to swap current font with a Google Font (for testing and preview purposes)
Ability to enable/disable the loading animation for pages
Default site-wide section padding and margins for desktop, mobile, and extra small mobile screens
Inheritable header image and (optionally) titles for sub pages when they don't have their own header
Custom 404 page
Google invisible ReCaptcha integration for contact forms

Welcome to the uMazel Starter Kit for Umbraco 8