Recent Posts and Articles
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Orchard CMS Administration
After you have installed Orchard, configured Orchard, and run the Orchard CMS website for the first time, you can click on the Dashboard link to access the administrative area of Orchard. Out-of-the-box you have the ability to create pages, create a blog, administer comments, manager lists, add widgets, upload photos, choose new themes, manage users and roles, and manage all other basic website functionality for your small business portal.
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Creating a new Orchard website using WebMatrix
Earlier we mentioned how one can use Microsoft's free web IDE, WebMatrix, to develop Orchard Websites. You will miss out on intellisense as well as some of your Visual Studio Productivity Tools, like JetBrains ReSharper, but other than that, creating and customizing Orchard Websites, Orchard Themes and Orchard Modules using WebMatrix is possible. In addition to developing Orchard Websites with WebMatrix, one can also download and install Orchard CMS right within WebMatrix using the Web Gallery!
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Tips and tricks: Delete a blog
We receive the most interesting emails from clients and developers on challenges they face with Orchard CMS and we thought we would start publishing a few of these questions and answers on our blog under Orchard CMS Tips & Tricks. If one or two Orchard Website Owners are asking these questions, there are probably dozens scratching their head right now with the same question.
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Orchard 1.1: Build,Customize,Extend,Ship
Sébastien rebuilds the TechEd web site with Orchard in this TechEd talk. -
Real world Orchard CMS – part 5 – caching - lets get that twitter widget working.
So far we’ve created a basic theme, created a twitter widget to display the latest twitter feeds and gone back and tidied up some parts of our theme that weren’t working out for us. In this post I’m going to quickly go back and tidy up a loose end that’s been bugging me - getting the twitter widget doing something useful. We originally created that part to just return some canned results, but I figure going back to address this is a good exercise as we can look at caching in Orchard.
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Real world Orchard CMS – part 4 – cleaning up the theme
In the earlier parts of this series we created a basic theme, and a widget that will display latest twitter feeds (actually, that widget just displays canned results but if you look in the “final” directory in the source, you’ll find the finished working version of this widget). In this post I want to look at enhancing the theme somewhat as there are a few subtleties at the moment that aren’t right with how we want this theme to function.
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Using Taxonomies in Orchard
In this screencast, I will demonstrate how to use the Taxonomies module in Orchard to create a simple news site.
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Real world Orchard CMS – part 3 – creating the twitter widget
This post is about creating a widget that will render a list of latest twitter feeds on the site. Rather than complicate matters with calling the twitter API, this post will look at building the widget itself and return canned results. Interfacing to twitter itself is left as an exercise for the reader.