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Orchard Core MCP Server, Orchard Harvest 2026 Recordings - This week in Orchard (23/10/2026)

Want your AI assistant to give better answers that match how Orchard Core actually works? The new AI Quick Start guide in the docs shows how to connect Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and other clients to the official Orchard Core MCP server.

Building a custom admin theme and want content field hints to look different? A new Hint_Admin shape lets your theme override how hints are rendered.

We also started publishing the Orchard Harvest 2026 recordings on YouTube.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, Kryštof Klaban, and Aniket Deshmane.

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Orchard Core 3.0, Admin Theme in Orchard Core: The Developer cheat sheet - This week in Orchard (19/06/2026)

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core 3.0 is out! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core. In the coming weeks, we will explore the latest features and additions in Orchard Core 3.0!

New documentation by contributor Quoc Bao An Nguyen covers how to work with the Admin Theme in Orchard Core for building consistent, maintainable custom admin interfaces.

Thanks to contributor ghazi1567, ReCaptcha settings can now be configured via ConfigureReCaptchaSettings(), allowing keys to be pulled from appsettings.json rather than only from the admin dashboard.

A new demo by Mike Alhayek showcases how the AI Suite can route chat sessions to live human agents (e.g., via Genesys), enabling hybrid AI-and-human support workflows.

We attended Digitalk's BeerUP Tech Fest, where we networked and gave a talk on .NET web architecture in regulated environments!