What is Nested Content?

Nested content is a list editing property editor for Umbraco 7+. It is similar to Archetype, but not as full featured. It's more stripped back and simple which I think is the reason why it has been included in Umbraco Core since 7.7

Not only is it pleasant for the editor to use, it is also pleasant to code with, because you are essentially just coding against IPublishedContent items.

This post will show you how to do the following:

Use Nested Content to manage the content, images and links for a carousel

Write the necessary markup in Bootstrap for the carousel to work

Add an option to disable a slide, so you don't have to delete it if you want to turn it off temporarily.

Example of what we will create

Here is a demo site which uses a starter kit I created. That starter kit has a Carousel on the home page which is managed using Nested Content and is built using Bootstrap.

Lets start with Nested Content

Nested Content allows you to use normal Umbraco document types as items in a list.

Here is what the document type will look like