GraphQL query for retrieving current user data and its custom settings, drop Newtonsoft.Json support, and a GovTech company case study are the topics for this week! Without further ado, let's get started! Orchard Core updates GraphQL query for retrieving current user data and its custom settings Getting information about the current user and additionally its custom user settings (aka user profile) was not possible out of the box with GraphQL. A query would be handy for using Orchard Core as a headless CMS with front-end users. This can also allow querying custom user settings (i.e., content types with the CustomUserSettings stereotype). So, from now on, there is a new GraphQL object to export for the current user. It gives you your own information and custom settings if you are authenticated. To try this out, you have to enable the GraphQL feature, and after that, you can use a query which you can see in the screen below by using the GraphiQL Explorer. Drop Newtonsoft.Json Support The utilization of Newtonsoft.Json has been discontinued in both YesSql and OrchardCore. Instead, we have transitioned to utilize System.Text.Json due to its enhanced performance capabilities. To ensure compatibility with System.Text.Json during the serialization or deserialization of objects, you have to undertake some steps. For example, if your custom Document includes a collection with a getter-only property, it is imperative to incorporate a setter or utilize the init modifier to facilitate the assignment of values by System.Text.Json. For instance: public class MediaProfilesDocument : Document{ public Dictionary<string, MediaProfile> MediaProfiles { get; } = new(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);} Should be changed to the following instead: public class MediaProfilesDocument : Document{ public Dictionary<string, MediaProfile> MediaProfiles { get; init; } = new(StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase);} You also need to change how you register your custom deployment steps, custom AdminMenu nodes, and any serializable object that contains a polymorphic property (a base type that can contain sub-classes instances). It will be a breaking change once the community releases the 1.9 version of Orchard Core. You can read more about what changes you should make under the release notes of the next release. News from the community Municipal government permit management run on Orchard Core Working in the GovTech space brings its own challenges - but not ones that can't be solved with Orchard Core! A customer of ours runs a permit management platform on Orchard Core too. We help them with consulting, Azure, and development. Head to our site and check out a GovTech company case study! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 476 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

New DateTime and TimeSpan Tag Helpers and adding DiscoverableSterotypes to GraphQLContentOptions are the topics for this week. Let's check them out in detail! Orchard Core updates New DateTime and TimeSpan Tag Helpers Now, you can use the new DateTime and TimeSpan Tag Helpers. The DateTime Tag Helper has a Utc and a Format attribute. The Utc attribute is a DateTime? and the Format is the format of the datetime. And when it's rendered, it's creating a DateTime shape. You can utilize this Tag Helper like: <datetime utc="@contentItem.ModifiedUtc" format="g" /> The TimeSpan Tag Helper has a Utc attribute, which is a DateTime? and an Origin attribute which is also a nullable DateTime. The Tag Helper will calculate the difference between these two dates using the TimeSpan shape and will give you something like "2 days ago" or "3 minutes ago". You can utilize this Tag Helper like: <timespan utc="@Clock.UtcNow" origin="@contentItem.ModifiedUtc" /> DiscoverableSterotypes to GraphQLContentOptions This is a new option that you can use to set the stereotypes that will be available in the GraphQL queries. When identifying content types for GraphQL exposure, we identify those without a stereotype to provide you with control over the behavior of stereotyped content types. A new option, DiscoverableSterotypes, has been introduced in GraphQLContentOptions. This allows you to specify stereotypes that should be discoverable by default. For instance, if you have several content types stereotyped as ExampleStereotype, you can make them discoverable by incorporating the following code into the startup class: services.Configure<GraphQLContentOptions>(options =>{ options.DiscoverableSterotypes.Add("ExampleStereotype");}); You can read more about configuring contents in the official documentation of Orchard Core. News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 survey For those too young to remember, we had Orchard conferences, called Orchard Harvest. The conference website was available under orchardharvest.org, but unfortunately, it's not anymore. The last in-person one was in 2017 in New York. So, having another get-together is very much overdue. If you would like to see or get a feeling of how this looked like before, we have a couple of mood videos on the Orchard YouTube channel, like this one from the first conference. The point is that we should think about organizing the next in-person one, and we at Lombiq can take part in that or provide an organizing role with anybody who wants to take part. After last year, the Orchard Harvest Conference will be held again in 2024. Last year, it was held online due to economic reasons. But first, we would like to assess the potential interest and what would be needed. You can fill in the questionnaire here, which should take about 5 minutes. Share your thoughts with us in the survey. We are curious about who we will meet in 2024! :) Work with Lombiq! Do you like developing apps with Orchard Core? Would you like to apply your skills to some of the most challenging Orchard Core apps out there, working with other OC experts? Then come work with us at Lombiq, the biggest Orchard Core team in the world! We've been contributors, supporters, and users of Orchard Core and Orchard 1 for more than a decade (Benedek Farkas and Zoltán Lehóczky, the two founders, for even more), with a huge open-source portfolio. There, you can also check out the code we write, and some of the projects you could take part in. We do a lot. Ready for keywords? Open-source, Orchard Core CMS, .NET software development, ASP.NET Core MVC, distributed team, cloud-first, Microsoft Azure, self-funded R&D, Vue.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, SASS, training, hosting and operations, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, support, SaaS (the only Orchard CMS SaaS, DotNest), Selenium UI testing, xUnit, university courses. And also, greenfield experimental projects like Hastlayer, turning software into computer chips. Write to us at [email protected], and let's talk! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 476 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Update ResourceManager to better handle resources that don't specify a version, update Lucene docs with recipe steps, and Orchard Core is in the top 10 of the list of .NET Foundation's most active community projects of 2023! Without any further ado, let's get started! Orchard Core updates Update Lucene docs The Lucene module allows you to manage Lucene indices. This module contains a Lucene Worker feature, which creates a background task that will keep the local file system index synchronized with other instances that could have their local index. It is recommended to use it only if you are running the same tenant on multiple instances (farm) and using a Lucene file system index. The module also provides a management UI and APIs for querying Lucene data using ElasticSearch Queries. And of course, Lucene indices can be created during recipe execution using the ElasticIndexSettings step. The documentation of this module has been updated with these recipe steps to describe how to set the default search settings, how to restart the indexing process from the beginning to update current content items, or how to rebuild a Lucene index. Update ResourceManager to better handle resources that don't specify a version Let's say we have two scripts defined. A "default" version that doesn't specify a version. In another module, we define an override of that resource by defining a resource with the same name and specifying a version number. When we run the site, the script resources fail to load due to an ArgumentNullException. The issue lies in ResourceManager.FindMatchingResource, because when evaluating the second match, resource.Version is null, which causes a new Version(resource.Version) to throw the ArgumentNullException. Note that earlier in the method, the code takes care to avoid the ArgumentNullException by checking for null. A workaround for this issue is to just make sure that all resources specify a version, but since the version is not required by the API, it should handle null gracefully. You can reproduce this issue by following these steps: In an IConfigureOptions<ResourceManagementOptions>, register a new resource. For example, a script called "MyScript". Don't specify a version. Additionally, register a second resource with the same name, and this time also call SetVersion with a valid version number. For example, "MyScript" with a version of "1.0.0". Require the resource. For example, in Layout.cshtml, use the script tag helper to require "MyScript" and don't specify a version. Run the site and notice that the script doesn't load (in fact, no scripts load). Also, notice that you receive an ArgumentNullException in the log. The expectation would be that version 1.0.0 of the resource to be loaded on the page (winning out over the one without a version, and not throwing an error). So, this change is about updating the ResourceManager.cs to better handle resources that don't specify a version. News from the community .NET Foundation most active community projects 2023 Shaun Walker shared this image on X that contains the most active community projects based on the number of pull requests, the number of commits, and the number of new contributors. As you can see, Orchard has 1136 pull requests in 2023, which is great. Orchard has 854 commits, which is weird. Why do we have more pull requests than commits? Do we close that many pull requests? The reason for that could be that we have some mini PRs created by Dependabot. And we haven't talked about which projects are using squash and merge and which aren't. But it's still a nice thing to be able to see Orchard in the top 10 again! And don't forget about the fact that Orchard Core recently reached 7000 stars on GitHub! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 481 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Shortcode for cache busing, update the Admin Dashboard documentation, and a demo about the upcoming Azure Email Communication Services feature! Let's get started! Orchard Core updates Update the Admin Dashboard documentation The documentation page for the Admin Dashboard has been updated with details about how to create custom widgets that you can add to the Admin Dashboard. You can also read about the customizable settings of these widgets and the options that you can use if you wish to modify the look of your widgets. Shortcode for cache busting There was no option to add a Shortcode for cache busting. For reference, you can add cache busting in a cshtml file like this: @Orchard.AssetUrl(assetPath: path, appendVersion: true). So, if somebody used an image in (for example) an HTML Body part, there was no way to add cache busting with a Shortcode. The goal of this improvement was to add a Shortcode that allows cache busting. The Shortcodes page of the documentation lists the available Shortcodes in Orchard Core. This contains the Demos Azure Email Communication Services feature Azure now has a new set of resources under the Communication Services (ACS) umbrella, Email Communication Services being one of them. This is a cheaper, Azure-native alternative to SendGrid. The primary way to use it is not through traditional SMTP-server configuration, but a connection string (of two components, endpoint, and access key) provided by the ACS resource, which allows access to the specific communication service resources attached to it (for example, an Email Communication Services instance). This requires a custom implementation to send emails using the corresponding SDK. OrchardCore.Email doesn't seem to support this scenario at its current state and needs a bit of refactoring (can take inspiration from the structure in O1 for better extensibility). Now let's see the current state of this feature that you can also check out in this PR! First, we need to enable the Azure Email Communication Services feature that configures email settings and a default email service based on (ACS) under the Configuration -> Features option from the admin UI. After that, you will find a new option under Configuration -> Settings -> Email, called Azure Email Settings. Here, you can see the Default Sender and the Connection String values. The Default Sender can be set up under the Email Settings menu item or use the appsettings.json file. The Connection String can be set up using the appsettings.json file. And if you are interested in how to use this feature from code, you can see a unit test for this in the AzureEmailServiceTests class. As always, if you would like to know more about this upcoming feature, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 487 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Use shape when rendering HTTP errors to allow customization from the UI, add extensions for IDisplayManager, and a case study about migrating Git-hg Mirror to Orchard Core are the topics for this week. Let's check them out in detail! Orchard Core updates Use shape when rendering HTTP errors to allow customization from the UI The idea here is that you might want to customize the error pages without having to create a theme. The way to do that is to create shapes. The reason you had to create a theme is these pages were used to be views, so you couldn't override them dynamically. Now (because they are shapes), you can create them in the admin UI and the theme. So, if you want to be able to override the error pages using the Templates feature, now you can do that. For example, if you want to customize the 404 page using Liquid templates, enable the Templates feature, add a template called HttpError__NotFound, and design it how you want it. In this case, we selected the Templates option under Design (enabled the Templates feature first) from the admin menu and clicked on the Add Template button. Here we named our template HttpError__NotFound and provided a sample content. After we clicked Save. The only thing left is to enter a random URL to check out the content of our custom 404 page. You can read more about this enhancement on the newly created Diagnostics page in the documentation. It's a breaking change because if you have customization before, now you have to rename the views or relocate them. This was also documented in the notes of the next Orchard Core release. Add extensions for IDisplayManager This introduces new extension methods for the IDisplayManager that displays a shape using TModel, meaning you don't have to do a new Navbar() for example, as you can see on the screen. The release notes of the next Orchard Core release have also been updated with these changes mentioning how you can add the Navbar shape into your front-end theme utilizing the new extensions. News from the community Case study: Git-hg Mirror is running on Orchard Core Our Git-hg Mirror service can sync between Git and Mercurial repositories, as well as two Git repos. Originally built on Orchard 1, now it runs on Orchard Core! Check out our case study here about the migration! We are happy with the results and the additions to our open-source modules, and stay tuned, as we keep the migrations rolling. If you're considering migrating your Orchard 1 website to Orchard Core, this is an excellent time. Should you have any questions or encounter challenges, don't hesitate to reach out to us. We're always ready to bring our expertise to your unique project needs. Get in touch with us today, and let's start making your Orchard Core website even better! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 488 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

SMTP should send the email if the SSL certificate is invalid, new All users and Custom user settings deployment steps, and drop support for .NET 6 and .NET 7 are the topics for this week. Let's check them out in detail! Orchard Core updates SMTP should send the email if the SSL certificate is invalid Mailkit supports sending emails when the server's SMTP certificate is invalid. Now this function is integrated into Orchard Core. You have the choice (with a check box from the mail server settings in the admin area) to be able to bypass the invalid or self-signed certificate. So, there is a new property called IgnoreInvalidSslCertificate that you can set to true in the settings, such that if the SMTP server certificate is not valid, then you might not care and just send the email anyway. To find this setting, don't forget to enable the Email feature. After that, you can navigate to Configuration -> Settings -> Email, where you can find the Ignore Invalid SSL Certificate checkbox. All Users and Custom User Settings deployment steps Now, we have two new deployment steps to export every user and to export all, or specified custom user settings. These steps contain the user's name, user ID, email of the user, password hash, security stamp, phone number, and all the important things and the custom settings of the users. And it's safe because it's a password hash, and the data protection key that created this hash is secure. If you navigate to Configuration -> Import/Export -> Deployment Plans, you can create a new deployment plan. If you click the Manage Steps button, you will find the Add Step button, which helps you to add deployment steps to your plan. If you filter on the user keyword, you will find these new steps. Drop support for .NET 6 and .NET 7 The latest LTS version of one of the world's leading development platforms was released on November 14, 2023. And Orchard Core now supports .NET 8! It also means that the upcoming version of Orchard will not support .NET 6 and .NET 7. Our practice has always been to support the latest LTS version of .NET, and additionally, the latest version if it's different. Dropping older versions allows us to use new features from .NET 8, and drop packages that are not required anymore (like NewtonSoft.Json). It should be as easy as updating the target framework in the websites that decide to upgrade to the next Orchard Core version. If you head to the documentation of the upcoming Orchard Core release, you will notice this breaking change there as well. News from the community Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 486 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Introducing a new Navbar shape, centrally defining media resources, and the brand-new Orchard Core site of Stimata Hotel! Let's get right into the news! Orchard Core updates Introduce a new Navbar shape In the Admin theme, multiple shapes were injected in the Navbar space. We had a zone, that was called NavbarTop, we were injecting the user menu, and then we were injecting a shape for the links. We were creating three shapes, and instead, we now have a Navbar shape, which you can utilize in the Admin theme, in the Theme, and in your own theme. It allows you to utilize drivers to be able to add line items inside that Navbar shape. That makes things more dynamic. Like injecting a theme toggler, the icon that navigates you to the front-end site, the culture picker, etc., can be done by using the driver. You can read more about it by visiting the docs, and the change logs of the upcoming Orchard Core version are also updated to tell you some more details about it, for example, how you can add the Navbar shape into your own front-end theme and back-end theme. Centrally define media resources This change is about centrally defining media resources to avoid scattered file references. The script and the CSS files needed for the Media-related fields and parts (Html Body Part, Html Field, Markdown Body Part) were always injected in a way where we defined the source and the dependencies of the required resources. By adding these resources to the ResourceDefinition, we can easily inject them just by using their name. News from the community A new website using Orchard Core: Stimata Hotel Stimata Hotel is nestled in Flampouria, a charming coastal nook on the western side of Kythnos, captivating with its sandy beach and the mesmerizing sunset over the deep blue sea. Check out their brand-new, amazing-looking Orchard Core site here! If you are interested in more websites using Orchard and Orchard Core, don't forget to visit Show Orchard. Show Orchard is a website for showing representative Orchard CMS (and now Orchard Core) websites all around the internet. Ryan Drew Burnett started it, but since he doesn't work with Orchard anymore, as announced earlier, it is now maintained by our team at Lombiq Technologies. Oh, and in case you haven't read our previous post yet, Show Orchard is now running on Orchard Core! Here's the case study about how we migrated it from Orchard 1! If you're considering migrating your Orchard 1 website to DotNest Core, this is an excellent time. Should you have any questions or encounter challenges, don't hesitate to reach out to us. We're always ready to bring our expertise to your unique project needs. Get in touch with us today, and let's start making your Orchard Core website even better! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 484 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Upgrading the Admin theme to use Bootstrap 5.3.2, displaying the Orchard Core logo in the HTML head in Admin branding, and a discussion about having Orchard Core Workshops again! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Upgrade to Bootstrap 5.3.2 Orchard Core is now using Bootstrap 5.3.2, which is a major upgrade because the previously used version of Bootstrap was Bootstrap 4. Most of the assets of the Admin theme were reinvented to make them compliant with Bootstrap for many reasons. One of them is the maintainability because we don't have a lot of overrides so we tried to code along instead of going against Bootstrap. If the next version of Bootstrap is released, it will be easy to update Orchard Core to use that version. This version of Bootstrap supports themes. There is support for dark and light themes; you can also add any other theme you might want. If you want to add a blue theme, you can achieve that using Bootstrap 5.3.2. Previously we used to have our own dark mode and default theme. So, those now are supported by Bootstrap. Because of this reason, one of the breaking changes is we no longer use the phrases: theme, dark theme (from the Bootstrap perspective). It is now called dark and light. And by default, we use auto. What auto does, is it automatically honors your preferences. This means that if you are using a dark theme on your phone, your Orchard Core website will load dark by default. Another improvement is separating Bootstrap from the Admin theme assets. Before the admin.scss used to include Bootstrap within it. And also, admin.js used to include Bootstrap within it. It means we complied them together, and we shipped them that way. With the new layout, we separated the two. The admin.scss or the admin.js are much lighter files but they are loaded after we load Bootstrap. The benefit of that is our code is completely independent of Bootstrap. If you open up the source code of Orchard Core and check the files inside the TheAdmin theme, you will notice one main file under the Assets/scss folder, called index.scss. Here we import some main stuff and the necessary components. At the end of the file, you can see that we are including the light and the dark themes. If you need to add your custom theme, you can include it as we included the dark theme for example. If you check out the _index.scss file of the dark theme (under the scss/themes/dark folder,) you can see how we utilize the color-mode function to create a scope for the dark theme. And only do these overrides and make these changes when it's dark. You can do the same thing for your theme. Displaying the Orchard Core logo in the HTML head in Admin branding By default, the Orchard Core logo and site name are displayed in the top navbar in the admin theme. In this change, the favicon is surrounded by zone "HeadMeta" to put it in the HTML head. The documentation is also updated to reflect this change. News from the community Periodic Orchard Core Workshops As you may remember we had a couple of workshops before in 2020. They were about various aspects of Orchard Core, including the built-in modules or the most important part of the built-in modules and how to use them, theme development, module development, deploying to Azure, etc. We think that those workshops were very useful for the community and we should do that often or at least periodically, like twice a year. Just have this as an easily accessible way of getting a bit of personalized Orchard Core training. Because we have tutorials and videos, so, currently if you want to learn on your own, you can do that from those or the code. If you want personalized training, you can get in touch with any community member or Lombiq and get one. But kind of in between, there is nothing, there are no open courses, classroom-kind courses that you can just sign up and be there with multiple people. If you are interested, jump into this GitHub discussion and tell us your opinion about this idea! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 489 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Adding an option to allow the user to change the full-text search behavior in the admin UI, new Helpful Shell Extensions, and announcing that the recordings of the Orchard Harvest Conference 2023 are available on YouTube! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Full-Text Search for Admin UI Currently, when searching for content we search the DisplayText property. It can happen that we want to search content items for other fields like a stock number or serial number. Currently, the only way to do this is by adding any info we want to search for to the title. This may be acceptable in some cases, but not all cases. From now on, additional options have been introduced to enable control over the behavior of the full-text search in the administration user interface for content items. Check out this documentation for details about how you can do that by implementing the IContentsAdminListFilterProvider interface and registering the custom default term name as a search option by adding it to the ContentsAdminListFilterOptions. Helpful Shell Extensions The goal of this change is to introduce various extensions related to tenant management that the contributors can utilize in the future to improve the code quality of Orchard Core instead of doing the same checks repeatedly. And of course, you can use these extensions in the future in your own custom code as well! We have three new classes (ShellContextExtensions, ShellSettingsExtensions, and ShellStringExtensions) with extension methods that tell you whether the tenant is running or not, whether or not the tenant has one of the provided URL hosts, whether or not the tenant is in use in at least one active scope, and so on. News from the community Orchard Harvest Online Recordings We had the first online Orchard Harvest, and it was great to see that we had 188 sign-ups for the conference! It was an excellent opportunity to share knowledge, talk about development plans and ideas, and foremost, meet the rest of the worldwide community. And of course, we recorded every session, which means they are now available on YouTube! Click the link to rewatch all the inspiring talks and discussions! That was a blast! Thank you again, everyone, for taking part, and thanks to the presenters for their great presentations! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 497 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!

Support login via username or email address for OpenID, Liquid themes shouldn't need Razor support for MVC, and don't forget to take a look at our blog post about how to migrate an Orchard 1 application to Orchard Core! Check out our post for the details! Orchard Core updates Support login via username or email address for OpenID When using the built-in OpenID feature of Orchard Core, you can get an access token by making a POST request to /connect/token endpoint. In the request, you can specify the grant_type, scope, username, password, and client_id. You can use the username in the username parameter, but if you try to use the email address of the user, it won't work. According to this discussion thread, there is a change to not allow the username = email. However, there should be a fallback to authenticate by username or email. So, the goal of this change is to be able to use a username or email to log in. As you can see, now the code utilizes the updated GetUserAsync method, which gets the user by a specified username or email address. Liquid themes shouldn't need Razor support for MVC When developing a theme, you can decide to use Razor or Liquid files. But of course, you can mix Razor and Liquid files if you want. Originally the Blog Theme was only composed of Razor files that the community migrated step by step to Liquid. And we are only using Liquid files for the Agency Theme and the Coming Soon Theme as well. So, these are themes that currently only use Liquid files. And because of that, we can remove the AddRazorSupportForMvc tags from these themes. News from the community How to migrate an Orchard 1 application to Orchard Core You may have heard about the news that we migrated from our old Orchard 1 website to Orchard Core and modernized our site's look. Our new site turned out great, and we are very happy with it. It represents who we are and what we do as a company. We hope you like it too! For our case study on building the renewed Lombiq.com, including migrating it from Orchard 1, check out How We Renewed and Migrated lombiq.com from Orchard 1 to Orchard Core in the Lombiq blog, and check out this announcement in this video. If you are also planning to migrate your Orchard 1 website to Orchard Core, and want to read more details about how you could start to migrate your website and content, search no more, we have published a detailed article on Orchard Dojo with some samples as well about how you could start and enjoy the numerous remarkable benefits by migrating to Orchard Core. Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 491 subscribers! We have started this newsletter to inform the community around Orchard of the latest news about the platform. By subscribing to this newsletter, you will get an e-mail whenever a new post is published to Orchard Dojo, including This week in Orchard of course. Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here! If you are interested in more news about Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this Orchard meeting!