Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks 1.0.0-beta3

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.NET 8.0 This package targets .NET 8.0. The package is compatible with this framework or higher.
This is a prerelease version of Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks.
There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details. 
dotnet add package Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks --version 1.0.0-beta3
                    


                    

                
NuGet\Install-Package Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks -Version 1.0.0-beta3
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks" Version="1.0.0-beta3" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
<PackageVersion Include="Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks" Version="1.0.0-beta3" />
                    


                            Directory.Packages.props
                        

                    

                
<PackageReference Include="Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks" />
                    


                            Project file
For projects that support Central Package Management (CPM), copy this XML node into the solution Directory.Packages.props file to version the package. 
paket add Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks --version 1.0.0-beta3
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks, 1.0.0-beta3"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
#:package Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks@1.0.0-beta3
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks&version=1.0.0-beta3&prerelease
                    


                            Install as a Cake Addin
                        

                    

                
#tool nuget:?package=Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks&version=1.0.0-beta3&prerelease
                    


                            Install as a Cake Tool

NuGet version (Digbyswift.Umbraco.OrphanedLinks) Build status

Prevents broken links in Umbraco CMS rich text editors when linked content is unpublished.

Why?

Links to Umbraco based content in a rich text editor (RTE) are saved in a format using the content's unique key, e.g. <a href="/{localLink:umb://document/13ce96ec83fe47fbb82e5dcca071cf2d}">. This allows the CMS to maintain references to the linked content regardless of where it is moved to.

However, if a linked page is unpublished in the Umbraco CMS, the link in the RTE is not preserved by Umbraco. In a standard install, in the published RTE content you will see the link becoming a href="#".

This package will persist the URLs so that links are preserved. This has the following benefits:

  • Redirects can be implemented when the link is broken but not when the link is a #.
  • Broken links are easier to find, either by search engines or by automated scraping tools;

How?

It does this by saving content URLs to a database table upon the following Umbraco events:

  • ContentUnpublishingNotification and
  • ContentMovingToRecycleBinNotification

It will remove URLs from the DB upon ContentPublishingNotification

In-memory cache is used courtesy of LazyCache and is updated upon ContentCacheRefresherNotification and so will work in a both a single instance and a load-balanced setup.

Setup

Include the AddOrphanedLinks() extension method in the startup of the project:

var umbracoBuilder = builder
    .CreateUmbracoBuilder()
    .AddBackOffice()
    .AddWebsite()
    .AddComposers()
    .AddOrphanedLinks()

Config

By default the package is enabled, but you can disable it using the following config setting:

{
  "Digbyswift": {
    "OrphanedLinks": {
      "Enabled": false
    }
  }
}
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