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Orchard Harvest 2026 program, Your website should integrate with your business systems - This week in Orchard (26/06/2026)

The full Orchard Harvest 2026 conference program is live, with the event taking place in Vancouver on September 10-11. Grab your early-bird ticket for just $280 and join the community for two days of sessions and networking!

Form submissions shouldn't end up in manual copy-paste routines. Orchard Core connects directly with Zapier, Make, and n8n to automatically trigger CRM updates, notifications, and more. DotNest's managed hosting makes the whole setup hassle-free!

The Health Checks module by Hisham Bin Ateya lets you restrict access by IP, apply rate limiting, and DoS protection for your health check endpoints, all configurable via JSON.

Managing multiple tenants on the same database just got easier. New RequireTablePrefix and TablePrefixPattern options, introduced by Mike Alhayek, let you enforce or auto-generate table prefixes (e.g., using the tenant name), so your setup is consistent and error-free out of the box.

No more guessing which properties to use for the Settings recipe step. Every module with configurable settings now includes a dedicated Recipe Configuration section with examples!

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First steps with Orchard - Dojo Course

UPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos! What is Orchard, how to begin with Orchard? Our first Dojo Course tutorial introduces Orchard to the newcomers. The notes for this tutorial: Orchardproject.net (documentation) Technological stack Rough overview of the course structure How to download, how to run -> GitHub repository, source package for devs Run from WebMatrix (download from App Gallery) Basic settings in WM, database Installation: DB layers, database providers, recipes Content types, content parts and fields, content items Content versioning and soft delete Installing modules and themes from the Gallery User management, roles and permissions Widgets, Layers, Zones, Layer rules, how a widget's generated source looks like Remember: if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask them by creating a new issue in the Orchard issue tracker with the "discussion" label. Make sure to prefix your thread's title with "Dojo Course - "! We keep an eye on these issues. Haven't you enrolled yet? Why not do it some time in the near future like right now?