A collection of links to sites, blogs, wiki's etc. concerning the Open Source .NET CMS Umbraco. Most, if not all, are for Umbraco v3.

Official sites

• The Official Umbraco Website.
   
• The Old Official Website.
  Mainly used for storing Umbraco v2 related items.
   
• Documentation.
  Containing loads of nice How-To's (check out the Books section), especially the one done by Douglas Robar on How to Install Umbraco v3 on Windows XP.
   
• Codeplex: Umbraco.
  Main dowload of Umbraco + source code.
  Note: In 99.9% of all cases you don't need the source itself. Download the latest binaries instead.
   
• Umbraco Wiki Book.
  Mostly containing documentation and tips to Umbraco v2, but a lot of it can still be used for v3.
   
• Umbraco Discussion Forum.
  Friendly, user-driven message board, build upon Umbraco!
    
• Sites Running Umbraco.
  Nice for inspiration, but really not that complete. Instead look at this massive list on the old site.

Packages / Plugins / Addons

Various addons for Umbraco. Note that some of the packages are posted on blogs, so the link might not point to the latest version!

• Umbraco Stats.
  Gives you the ability to generate advanced web statistics reports from within the web interface! Available in a free light version for non-commercial sites, and 3 other (cheap) versions for commercial use.
   
• A CSS Skinable Umbraco Website Package.
  If you're testing Umbraco I do not recommend using this package as it's a bit advanced. Use the default Website Creation Wizard instead.
   
• ImageGen Dynamic Image Generator.
  Package that allows you to dynamically generate or scale images based on content. Really, really sweet package, it should be a part of any Umbraco installation you do.
   
• Autoform Plus.
  A package for creating forms on a website.
   
• XSLTsearch.
  A flexible, customizable search engine for Umbraco, based on XSLT.
   
• Captcha Image.
  Image datatype with random, garbled numbers for avoiding spammers on posts.
   
• Package Creator.
  Super-wizard for creating your own, custom Umbraco packages.
   
• RSS Package.
  For creating your own RSS feeds based on the content on your website.
   
• Umbraco eCommerce Extension.
  Source code of a unfinished, pre-alpha eCommerce extension: Warning: Some assembly required (took me 3 days to get it compiled and working with v3).
   
• Creating Newsletters.
  Not really a package, but rather a How-To guide on how to create and send Newsletters from within Umbraco.

Blogs

From various people all around the world working with Umbraco. Sometimes contains invaluable tips & tricks on how to work with Umbraco along with several usefull, half-finished plugins that you can take for a spin.

• Niels Hartvig (the main guy behind Umbraco).
• Per Ploug Hansen / Objects.dk.
• Warren Buckley.
• Thomas Hoehler.
• Morten Bock.
• Ismail's blog.
• Tim Geyssens.

Think I'm missing something? Or is there something you'd like to see listed here?
Then please leave a comment below and I'll look into it.