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Orchard Core Just Got a New Home, Content Version Pruning Feature - This week in Orchard (31/07/2026)

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 A new background task now prunes old, superseded versions automatically.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.

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Orchard Core Just Got a New Home, Content Version Pruning Feature - This week in Orchard (31/07/2026)

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 A new background task now prunes old, superseded versions automatically.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.

Orchard Harvest's new website; Ready to simplify your Orchard Core hosting? - This week in Orchard (24/07/2026)

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!

Mastering Lucene Query Syntax in Orchard Core, How to quickly spin off your Orchard Core site? - This week in Orchard (12/06/2026)

Have you heard that we rebuilt DotNest.com using reusable landing page sections, Tailwind 4 without Node.js, and AI-assisted workflows?

Nick Jackson demos an Electron desktop app that lets you spin up Orchard sites fast! Choose your modules and themes, manage recipes, all without touching an IDE.

Sébastien Ros introduced support for async JS evaluation using Jint's new async method, enabling workflows and other JS-dependent features to run without blocking.

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!

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!

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!

Test drive Orchard Core with one-click setup of a walkthroughs site, Reduce allocations for ShapeDescriptors - This week in Orchard (07/11/2025)

You can still cast your vote for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award! This week's topics include improving FlatPositionComparer performance and reducing allocations for ShapeDescriptors! See you next week at Orchard Harvest!

Ability to delete Content Part and Content Type from the list page, Orchard Core-integrated AI modules now available on DotNest - This week in Orchard (22/08/2025)

Secure your early bird ticket to the Orchard Harvest conference! Our topics for this week are adding an ability to delete Content Part and Content Type from the list page, and adding an AdditionalProperties collection for BuildDocumentIndexContext! Oh, and have we mentioned that the Orchard Core-integrated AI modules are now available on DotNest? Without further ado, let's get started!

Make SqLite database name configurable, Lombiq Training Demo module as a standalone solution - This week in Orchard (10/03/2024)

Make SqLite database name configurable, Select All checkbox UI updates, and a demo about making our Training Demo module as a standalone solution! Oh, and have we mentioned our very special limited offer for DotNest? Head to our post, and let's see the details! Orchard Core updates Make SqLite database name configurable This change sets the default database to OrchardCore.db for new sites. Existing sites that were created in the past using yessql.db will still work as before using yessql.db. This all happens seamlessly and does not introduce any breaking change. There is a new setting called DatabaseName that can be set to a custom name using the appsettings.json file. Here, you can see we just simply extended the AutoSetup example section by providing the name of the database. Select all Content Types This is about mainly updating the JavaScript code for the Select all content types checkbox. As you can see on the screen, you can select the indexed content types or the content types that you want to track using the Audit Trail feature by using the Select all checkbox. If you uncheck one of the content types, the Select all checkbox will be unticked but if you click on the Select all checkbox after that, every content type will be selected again. Demos Lombiq Training Demo module as a standalone solution The Lombiq Training Demo for Orchard Core is our Orchard Core tutorial module containing a lot of documentation that teaches you to become an Orchard Core developer. If you like to learn from code then this is for you. This is only about development and the basic concepts and not the user-facing part of Orchard Core. The point is that we have some simplification here. We got feedback over time that using the Training Demo is hard. Specifically, its context is hard to use because previously you had to use our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions parent project. This solution contains all of Lombiq's Orchard Core-related projects as submodules. It also uses Node.js for client-side builds, linting, and whatnot. And to run that solution, you have to go through some setup steps. So, a lot of setup is needed just to be able to work with the Training Demo module. But not anymore! We simplified the Training Demo a lot and now if you clone this repository or just download the source code, you get a full solution with an Orchard Core web application with the Training Demo module. After that, you just need to hit F5 or CTRL+F5 if you are using Visual Studio, and it will run. No other dependencies or setups are needed, just .NET. Here we are using Visual Studio but that's not needed either, you can do this from the .NET CLI or you can use another IDE. When you start the application auto setup runs with a recipe to demonstrate the Training Demo. If you want to see this new solution in action, head to YouTube for a recording! News from the community DotNest is 10 years old DotNest is our content management framework as software as a service, for you and your clients. Sign up and create any number of Orchard Core sites you want. Don't worry about deployment, maintenance, and upgrades - your Orchard site just works. And DotNest just turned 10 this week! Celebrate it with our very special limited offer and launch your new site at a discount with free 1-1 consulting! Interested in creating your own Orchard Core site with just a few clicks? Check out this post for the details! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 477 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!