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Orchard Harvest 2026 Early Bird tickets, exploring Orchard Core's Next-Gen Visual Layout Editor Feature - This week in Orchard (05/06/2026)

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!

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Orchard Harvest 2026 survey, Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills - This week in Orchard (27/02/2026)

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?

Dynamic Translations, refactor IContentDefinitionService for improved modularity and design - This week in Orchard (13/02/2026)

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!

IntelliSense for recipes, Orchard Core Commerce 3.1 - This week in Orchard (06/02/2026)

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?

Agent Guidelines for Orchard Core, new marketing site on DotNest - This week in Orchard (30/01/2026)

Orchard Core 3.0 will be released soon! In this new version, we removed the default implementations from interfaces and obsolete members, which we cover in our post. You could also read about a new Agent Guidelines documentation that explains to LLMs how to build, test, and run Orchard. Don't forget to check out a case study on a new marketing website on DotNest! Without further ado, let's dive in!

Block Content Type Picker for Flow Part and Bag Part, Christmas in Lombiq - This week in Orchard (19/12/2025)

Our last post of this year concerns moving GetAllCulturesAndAliases to the default implementation and adding missing docs for the Setup module. Don't forget to check out a demo about the Block Content Type Picker for Flow Part and Bag Part! We also want to share some photos of our Christmas event. Thank you all for reading our posts and for making the Orchard community stronger! See you next year!

New User Display Name shape, Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award 2025 - This week in Orchard (24/10/2025)

Don't miss your chance to shape the conversation at the Orchard Harvest Conference 2025! It's also time to nominate exemplary community members for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award. This week's topics include introducing a new User Display Name shape and a new page in the documentation about the Archive Later feature.