Rivlo.FriendlyMedia 13.1.0

Friendly Media for Umbraco

Friendly Media is a powerful, editor-friendly tool for managing clean, consistent, human-readable media URLs in Umbraco.

It improves visibility, consistency, and SEO by giving you control over how media files are referenced — without changing how Umbraco stores them.

✨ Features

• Auto-generated friendly URLs based on media names
• Custom override URLs with validation and conflict checking
• Duplicate detection and visual warnings
• Smart filename change detection
• CSV export for audits and content reviews
• Deep media usage reporting across Block Lists, RTEs, and more (coming soon)
• Dashboard and Media Content App UI for full visibility and control
• Delete Guard prevent editors deleting media which is in use
• Schedule Media File Replacements replace your media files at a set date and time in the future

🔧 How it works

Friendly Media doesn't alter your actual media file paths — it maintains a mapping between Umbraco media items and clean, user-facing URLs that can be used in the front end.

This allows you to:

• Keep URLs stable even if media filenames change
• Assign readable slugs for better SEO
• Avoid long, messy URLs with timestamps or GUIDs

🚀 New in 13.1.0 — Scheduled Media Replacement

Friendly Media now supports scheduled file replacement, allowing editors to update media files (such as PDFs or documents) at a specific future date and time — without changing the Friendly URLs.

What it does

• Upload a replacement file for an existing media item
• Choose a future publish date/time
• The file is automatically replaced by a background job
• Friendly URLs remain stable (no broken links)

Why it’s useful

This is ideal for:

• publishing updated documents at a specific time
• preparing content changes in advance
• avoiding last-minute manual updates
• maintaining consistent URLs for external links and SEO

Key behaviour

• Only one scheduled replacement per media item
• Scheduling a new file requires cancelling the existing one first
• Replacement files are stored privately until published
• Editors are warned if a scheduled replacement exists
• Dashboard filtering shows all media items with pending replacements
• Umbraco's generated URL may change depending on the filename of the replacement file
• All Umbraco media file metadata is recalculated (e.g. image dimensions, file bytes)

🚀 Getting Started

1. Install via NuGet

dotnet add package RivloTools.FriendlyMedia

2. Configure routing middleware in Program.cs

app.UseFriendlyMediaMiddleware();

A valid licence file is required for production. A 14 day trial mode is available for evaluation.

📷 Backoffice UI

Friendly Media adds a new dashboard to the Media section and a custom tab (content app) to each media item for managing URLs and warnings.

💼 Licensing

This package requires a valid RivloTools licence file to run in production.

Trial Mode: 14 day trial is automatically enabled on first install

Licensing: Per-domain with optional version-lock

📄 Documentation

Full documentation, guides, and support: 👉 www.rivlotools.com/products/friendly-media

🛠 Built For

Currently available for Umbraco 10 and 13 with Umbraco 14+ versions coming soon.

🧑‍💻 Contribute / Feedback

This is a commercial package, but feedback and ideas are welcome: 📬 rivlotools@cssoftware.co.uk

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