Add supported_cultures Liquid filter, use TextArea in Markdown Field By default - This week in Orchard (05/07/2024)
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Orchard Core updates
Add supported_cultures Liquid filter
The Culture context variable got new properties for fuller Liquid culture support: DisplayName, NativeName, and TwoLetterISOLanguageName. These are the same as their .NET counterparts.
A new filter named supported_cultures was added to allow you to get a list of supported cultures. Let's see a quick example of using this new filter! We have a site set up with the Blog recipe. This recipe defines a Page content type by default with the Flow Part attached. We modified the content definition of this Page content type a little bit by removing the Flow Part and adding a Liquid Part to it. We did it under the Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types option and edited the Page content type.
After that, we have to make sure that the Localization feature is enabled, to be able to add multiple supported cultures to our site. We can enable this feature under Configuration -> Features. And if you navigate to Configuration -> Settings -> Localization -> Cultures, you can add as many supported cultures as you want.
Now, we can go back and create a new Page content item. As you can see, we utilized the new supported_cultures Liquid filter and printed the names of supported cultures using a list.
Use TextArea in Markdown Field By default
Before this change, the Markdown Field used a single-line input field by default (named the Standard editor) and offered two different editors: Multi-line with a simple textarea and WYSIWYG with a rich editor. Now, by default, it uses a textarea as the Standard editor, and the separate Multi-line option has been removed.
You have nothing to do, fields configured with the Standard or Multi-line editors previously will both continue to work. Note though, that their editors will now be a textarea.
To try this out, we simply added a Markdown Field to the predefined Blog Post content type. If you edit this Markdown Field, you may notice that there are two editor types: Standard and Wysiwyg. And if we create a new blog using the Standard editor type, you will get a Multi-line editor.
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