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:

• Support for multiple cultures using Umbraco's new variants functionality

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