Please can you help me work out how to get an IPublishedContent item from an IContent item without relying on the Umbraco Context?

So really just: "an IPublishedContent item without relying on the Umbraco Context"? I don't think that's possible. What are you trying to achieve with that?

I did it in the end. Was able to use some code from your blog post where used the service provider and and published content query thing and I was then able to get my item as ipublishedcontent.

Isn't that

using var _ = _umbracoContextFactory.EnsureUmbracoContext();

and therefore you still have an Umbraco Context? 😅 I am just wondering if you got away with not getting the context, which seems.. impossible.

It only works when I have that line above it even though I’m not using it 🤣

Yes, because it constructs a context for you, and you're definitely using it, as it starts with

using

😉

It’s weird though because when I tried using it to get content using the Umbraco content cache it didn’t work but the published query thing did work

I still don't know what you're trying to do, so can't tell you why you'd need it 🙂