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Help shape Orchard Core's new website, a new website using Orchard Core - This week in Orchard (17/07/2026)

When you add a custom settings page, does it look like it belongs in the admin UI?

When you utilize workflow activities, does JavaScript syntax have to be the only option?

After checking out this week's Orchard news, both have better answers.

Thanks to Mike Alhayek, admin forms across settings and configuration pages now use the same ocat-* CSS class conventions, replacing legacy Bootstrap and Orchard-specific helpers. And all workflow tasks that previously only supported JavaScript now also support Liquid, with a new LiquidTask added to match ScriptTask.

Also this week: Nick Jackson's Orchard Core website redesign is open for community feedback, and GoRide joins the showcase of sites running on Orchard Core.

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Useful and interesting services to enhance your features - Dojo Course

UPDATE (2017-11-22): Dojo Course 2 is released with new, updated videos! Dojo Course is almost over, so we move on to the spicy parts of the Orchard API that enable you to do really interesting things! An in-depth recap on what we did so far in our PersonList feature. Content querying: using Orchard's LINQ-like API, the IContentManager service to retreive content pieces (including usage and optimization points). How to integrate your features into the administration menu? Running code periodically using background tasks. Running code at a specified time using scheduled tasks. Creating system-wide event handlers to be able to communicate with other pieces of logic in an even more loosely tied way. And a little addition to migrations: you can implement an Uninstall method in your Migrations class to add some logic which will run when your feature is being removed from a system (hopefully nobody will use it ;) ). Stay tuned for the (really) last part of the Dojo Course before Christmas! 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. Also follow us on Twitter to get notified about the latest Dojo Course news, including when a new tutorial is posted. Do you have some feedback about the course? Please send it in.