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All the basics of using Umbraco 8	This section shows you some beginner tools and information to get your started with Umbraco 8. From making a local installation to extending the backoffice.	8.0.0

Getting Started with Umbraco 8

All the basics of using Umbraco v8. From making a local installation to extending the backend.

The newest major version of Umbraco comes with a lot of new big features, as well as a long list of general improvements to the CMS in general.

:::note This is a work in progress.

Want to help out making documentation for V8? Please check out our Contribution guidelines. :::

What's new in Umbraco 8?

Learn more about the new features in Umbraco 8.

Umbraco 8 Documentation

Setup

Covers how to install and configure your Umbraco installation

Requirements

What is needed to run Umbraco?

Design

Create templates and views with your own markup and use Razor to render content

Rendering content

Render the values of the current page or the result of a query against the content cache.

Backoffice overview

Details of all the common terms and concepts that are used throughout the Umbraco backoffice

Log viewer

Learn more about how to use the Log viewer in the backoffice, to view log entries.

Language Variants

Learn how to vary your content based on several languages.

Data

Using the backoffice to create data

Defining content

Setting up content types, defining fields and creating your first content

Code

Logging

Understanding how logging works, and learn to setup custom logging.

Extending

Using the backoffice to create data

Content Apps

Learn how to develop content apps / tools for your editors.

Tutorials

Porting packages to V8

Learn how to convert your Umbraco 7 packages to Umbraco 8.

Create a basic Umbraco site

This tutorial will take you through the steps of building a basic website with Umbraco.