Is there a way to make the documentation site save which version youโre looking at? It always defaults to the latest version (in this case 14), is there a way to only make it default to the latest LTS? We keep losing time to developers quickly following docs that turn out to be for 14 instead of 13 ๐ฆ
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SofieDocs
07/03/2024, 7:42 AM
Hi ๐ Frustrating that you're losing time over this! How about bookmarking the specific link to the v13 docs: https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/v/13.latest-lts - that will give you the landing page for the Umbraco CMS docs in version 13. docs.umbraco.com will always default to the latest version - as you've also discovered yourself! Hope it helps ๐ค
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Chris Bass
07/03/2024, 7:32 PM
I can join in on this and say that bookmarking the docs works, but doesn't help when you do a google search, and get version-agnostic URLs like this:
https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/fundamentals/backoffice/sections
And since Google search results are generally what devs are following into the documentation - the ability to have a cookie or session that remembered a specific version, and used it in absence of a url-specific version overriding it (such as https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/v/14.latest/fundamentals/backoffice/sections) would actually be pretty helpful.
Not sure where a good place to suggest a feature like that for the documentation would be.
@Chris Bass Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!
It's definitely something I'll be looking into this, as I can see more people are finding this frustrating, given that the difference between 13 and 14 is quite significant!
This is probably something we should have predicted, but it was just not on our radar, and I do apologize for the extra hassle this is causing you all! A Google search should definitely be able to give you exactly what you need!