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# Documentation for Umbraco 7

## Fundamentals

All the basics of using Umbraco v7. From your first local installation, to a fully functional customized CMS.

## Implementation

Get an overview of how the Umbraco pipeline is structured. Learn how to write queries and use the API's

## Extending

Documentation on the areas in Umbraco that are extendable such as custmizing backoffice ui and creating packages.

## Add-on documentation

Everything you need to know about Forms and Courier, the two premium packages developed and supported by HQ

### Contributing

The documentation project is open source and hosted on Github. If you have any corrections or additions to the documentation clone the project and make a pull request. Guidelines on how to contribute to the documentation.

# Umbraco 4 Documentation

## Installation

Describes how Umbraco is installed, using either WebMatrix, Microsoft Platform Installer, or from a zip-file.

## Using Umbraco

Describes Umbraco terminology, configuration files/settings & step by step guides on how to approach the different areas in Umbraco.

## Developers' Reference

Templating, querying, searching and other Umbraco APIs.

## Cheatsheets

Cheatsheets for easy overview of different areas like the Razor API and Views syntax.

## Umbraco Add-on documentation

Documentation for the Umbraco add-ons 'Forms' and 'Courier'

## Extending Umbraco

Documentation on how to extend umbraco with your own editors, trees, sections, and how to distribute those extensions as packages. (coming soon)

## Development Guidelines

How to work with the Umbraco codebase.