Explore a powerful new module for Orchard Core by Nick Jackson that lets you visually organize content type editor fields and parts into tabs, cards, and columns via an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, with zero coding or placement.json editing required!

Did you know that with just a few configuration tweaks and a single project reference, you can extend Orchard Core CMS with your very own custom module that is fully integrated into the admin UI and discoverable at runtime? Check out this brand-new guide by Manuel Tamayo Montero!

We're excited to open registration for Orchard Harvest 2026! Secure your spot today for the early bird pricing and get ready to level up your skills!

Unlock Agent-to-Agent Communication in Orchard Core today! This time, Mike Alhayek shows the A2A modules, which bring the Agent-to-Agent protocol to Orchard Core, enabling tenants to connect to remote agents or expose local agent profiles to other clients.

Thanks to Georg von Kries, the admin UI just got a usability boost with alphabetical role sorting, making user management-related operations cleaner and faster.

Mike Alhayek added new events to the IDocumentIndexHandler needed to allow other projects to implement more complex synchronization, such as when an index is updated or when another data source is updated. It means these events help keep external systems in sync with changes to the document index.

And the community is buzzing too! Nick Jackson has kicked off an important discussion: Who should the new OrchardCore.net website speak to? Head over to GitHub, read the proposal, and make your voice heard. This is your chance to shape the future of the Orchard Core website.

This week, Mike Alhayek shows new features to the AI Suite: Initial Prompt, data extraction, post-session processing, and AI Chat Session Analytics!

But before that, check out how Hisham Bin Ateya and Georg von Kries improved the feature dependency display and interactivity, and the new protect global method provider by Mike Alhayek!

Harvest speaker applications are now open until May 15! If you’ve been considering speaking at Orchard Harvest, this is a great opportunity to share your ideas with the Orchard Core community. Join us on the 10th and 11th of September in Vancouver!

Let's see the details!

This week, Mike Alhayek shows how to use Copilot directly inside Orchard Core!

But before that, check out some code where you can see that, starting now, Orchard supports static data migration methods, and suppressions are no longer required for migration steps that don't use instance state.

Welcome the first contribution from Jack Liu, who made the pagination of the List Part configurable to decide whether to show a full pager with page numbers or just the arrows to navigate to the previous and next pages.

Do you know that since 2013, we've been working with Óbuda University in a hands-on way to teach web development? If you are interested in our Orchard Core courses at the university, check out our post on our site!

As we mentioned, we started publishing last year's Harvest recordings to YouTube. Check them out for some inspiration, and don't forget to apply to be a speaker for this year's Harvest by the 5th of May, midnight, anywhere on Earth!

Ready to explore? Let's dive in!

We have two demos prepared for this week! The first demo is by Hisham Bin Ateya on adding localization support for Admin Menus, and the second is MCP Prompts and MCP Resources support by Mike Alhayek! Both are worth watching!

Before the demos, let's check out the new content manager ValidateAsync behavior, which means that now ValidateAsync() only performs validation and returns the result, and it no longer cancels the session on failure.

And thanks to Mike Alhayek, there is a new PlacementLocationBuilder fluent API as a type-safe alternative to manually constructing placement location strings in display drivers.

Enough talking, let's see these in detail!

This time, you can see a demo by Hisham Bin Ateya of a bulk option for attaching the Localization Part to content types.

Before that, let's check out the new Data Protection guide, thanks to Laode Muhammad Al Fatih, which provides information on implementing data protection in Orchard Core applications, particularly in multi-tenant and load-balanced environments.

And thanks to Nick Jackson, there is a new settings panel with a CodeMirror textarea for customizing the EasyMDE editor options on both the Markdown Field and the MarkdownBody Part when using the WYSIWYG editor.

Without further ado, let's dive in!

This week, you can see an interesting demo of the enhanced Blocks Editor, showcasing new features such as in-place block insertion, block duplication, cross-page block copying, and reusable Global Blocks!

But before that, let us quickly mention the newly added Agent Skills directly to Orchard Core for guided workflows!

If you haven't filled it out yet, please take a quick look at the Orchard Harvest 2026 survey that we will close on the 9th of March.

This week, you can see an interesting demo of the Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills repository, which provides enhanced AI-assisted theming with agent skills. But before that, let us quickly mention allowing mailto and tel links in the HTML sanitizer configuration and allowing an override of Reverse Proxy from the configuration! Oh, and did we mention that we have just created a survey for Orchard Harvest 2026?

This week, we mention the refactored IContentDefinitionService, allowing other modules to use content definition operations without referencing the entire ContentTypes module. See a demo of the Translation Editor that allows you to translate dynamic strings via the admin UI! And finally, check out a case study about how we rebuilt hajosnep.hu, Hungary's oldest maritime history association's website, with Orchard Core on DotNest!

See how we replaced the dynamic ContentCard shapes with strongly typed shapes to enhance Orchard Core development! Take a look at the updated documentation for the UserDisplayName shape if you struggled to display user information in your custom format. You could also see a demo about how to expose recipe step metadata and JSON schemas, enabling IDE autocompletion, AI tooling integration, and recipe validation. Oh, and have we mentioned that Orchard Core Commerce has just got a fresh new release?