Losing conversion data due to ad blockers and browser tracking prevention? The Meta Pixel feature now supports the Meta Conversions API, so events can be sent to Meta straight from the server, even from a workflow.

Need to run your own code when a user signs out? A new ILogoutFormEvent interface and a User Logged Out workflow event cover that.

Looking for a community module or theme before building your own? The Orchard Core Gallery lists them and lets you filter by Orchard Core version and tags.

And still running Orchard 1? Lombiq's upgrade of Canopy Realtor Association's three sites to Orchard 1.11 shows how to stay current without a full platform migration.

This week's changes come from Jasmin Savard, Mike Alhayek, and Antoine Griffard.

Ever forgotten the exact syntax for filtering your content items, users, or audit trail events? The Available Filters dialog now shows every filter as a compact grid of cards.

Building a module that needs real-time updates across multiple server instances? A new SignalR module centralizes hub registration, authentication, and Redis or Azure backplane configuration.

Curious how Orchard Core works as a headless CMS behind a booking app? Dave Black demoed Flexstructor, a driving lessons application for instructors and learners.

And have you seen our redesigned website yet? It covers our software audit, technical due diligence, and data analytics services, not just Orchard Core.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, with a demo by Dave Black!

Ever wondered why a permission shows up as effective for a role you didn't expect, or struggled to figure out what a feature depends on before enabling it? The Admin Interface now explains both, with clearer effective-permission tooltips and a better Features UI experience.

Curious what's new across the Deployment, Data, Publish Later, and Alias module docs? They just got a lot more detailed.

Want to stop a flood of requests from hammering your login or API endpoints, or any of your endpoints? A new Rate Limits module adds centralized, configurable rate limiting for Orchard Core.

Do you know that DotNest sites have already been upgraded to Orchard Core 3.0? They have, along with the rest of the stack around them.

This week's changes come from Georg von Kries, Mike Alhayek, and Antoine Griffard.

Want interactive API documentation without hand-writing a schema? Orchard Core v4 is getting a new OpenApi module with Swagger, ReDoc, and Scalar built in.

Need sign-ins to survive a browser restart without relying on a user's Remember me checkbox? A new setting controls persistent authentication cookies site-wide.

And curious how the Visual Layout Editor has evolved since June? It now detects every editor shape correctly, even ones with multiple editors like the SEO Meta Part.

This week's changes come from Jasmin Savard, Georg von Kries, and Nick Jackson.

Need to filter the admin contents list by more than one content type at once? A small change now lets you pass multiple content type IDs or stereotypes in the same query.

Looking for documentation on YesSql, security, theming from an HTML template, the Media Picker, or shapes? Several new Key Topics pages cover exactly that.

Curious how Orchard Core scales across multiple backend nodes with failover? We walk through the upcoming tenant clustering feature.

And since this is our last This week in Orchard post before Orchard Harvest 2026, we cover the latest news about the now-online conference and the voting for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, Antoine Griffard, Lazizbek Ergashev, and Sébastien Ros.

Want to give support staff a way to see role definitions without letting them change anything? A new View Roles permission does exactly that.

Need to cap how long, or short, a text field's content can be? Text Field settings now support Minimum and Maximum length validation.

Building AI features outside of Orchard Core? CrestApps.Core brings the same AI Suite services to any ASP.NET Core project.

And signing into DotNest just got easier, with social sign-in via Microsoft, Google, GitHub, or Facebook.

This week's changes come from Matt Varblow, Antoine Griffard, and Mike Alhayek.

ImageSharp v4's new license enforcement brought questions, so Orchard Core replaced it with NetVips as the default image engine.

YesSql 6.0 has been released, and Orchard Core has been updated to pick up the latest provider and API improvements. The major version brought a few breaking API changes, so this also adapts the affected source.

Need to stop two editors from overwriting each other's changes? A new Content Lock feature locks a content item while someone else is editing it.

Important update about Orchard Harvest! Due to various factors, we had to make the difficult decision to move the event online.

This week's changes come from Jasmin Savard, Sébastien Ros, Zoltán Lehóczky, and Hisham Bin Ateya.

Ever wondered how much storage your content version history is quietly eating? A new background task now prunes old, superseded versions automatically.

Curious about a faster way to add and configure parts and fields in the content editor? New Add & Configure and Save & Configure buttons cut out the extra round-trip.

Did you catch that the new Orchard Core website is live, built on vanilla Orchard Core with double-A accessibility?

And curious how a few lines of config can swap out a custom login flow for Microsoft SSO?

This week we've got all four, courtesy of PUXVSE (their first contribution!), Mike Alhayek, and Nick Jackson.

Ever lost a minute scrolling past features you'll never toggle, just to find the one you need?

Wondered which shape template actually rendered a fragment on one of your pages?

Curious what the redesigned Orchard Harvest website will look like?

And ready to simplify your Orchard Core hosting?

This week we've got all four, courtesy of Mike Alhayek and Nick Jackson, plus a look at DotNest.

Read on for the details, or jump to the section that matters to you!

When you add a custom settings page, does it look like it belongs in the admin UI?

When you utilize workflow activities, does JavaScript syntax have to be the only option?

After checking out this week's Orchard news, both have better answers.

Thanks to Mike Alhayek, admin forms across settings and configuration pages now use the same ocat-* CSS class conventions, replacing legacy Bootstrap and Orchard-specific helpers. And all workflow tasks that previously only supported JavaScript now also support Liquid, with a new LiquidTask added to match ScriptTask.

Also this week: Nick Jackson's Orchard Core website redesign is open for community feedback, and GoRide joins the showcase of sites running on Orchard Core.

Read on for the details, or jump to the section that matters to you!