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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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Let Your AI Agents Talk to Each Other - A2A in Orchard Core, Who Are We Building the New OrchardCore.net For? - This week in Orchard (29/05/2026)

Unlock Agent-to-Agent Communication in Orchard Core today! This time, Mike Alhayek shows the A2A modules, which bring the Agent-to-Agent protocol to Orchard Core, enabling tenants to connect to remote agents or expose local agent profiles to other clients.

Thanks to Georg von Kries, the admin UI just got a usability boost with alphabetical role sorting, making user management-related operations cleaner and faster.

Mike Alhayek added new events to the IDocumentIndexHandler needed to allow other projects to implement more complex synchronization, such as when an index is updated or when another data source is updated. It means these events help keep external systems in sync with changes to the document index.

And the community is buzzing too! Nick Jackson has kicked off an important discussion: Who should the new OrchardCore.net website speak to? Head over to GitHub, read the proposal, and make your voice heard. This is your chance to shape the future of the Orchard Core website.

Elasticsearch improvements, hosting an Orchard Core application on Ubuntu VPS using GitHub Actions - This week in Orchard (19/09/2025)

All of our speakers and their introductions for Orchard Harvest are now available! The topics for this week are Elasticsearch improvements. See a demo about how you can host an Orchard Core application on Ubuntu VPS using GitHub Actions!

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!

Orchard Harvest 2025 tickets on sale, add Vector and Complex document type support to allow indexing complex objects - This week in Orchard (08/08/2025)

Secure your early bird ticket to the Orchard Harvest conference! Our topics for this week are to allow setting whether to fall back to the parent culture or not through UI, and add Vector and Complex document type support to allow indexing complex objects! Without further ado, let's get started!

Show a badge if a user is locked out, Lombiq Orchard Visual Studio Extension v.1.8.1 - This week in Orchard (27/06/2025)

This week's topics include displaying a badge when a user is locked out, renaming the ResetIndexProfile and RebuildIndexProfile recipe steps, and enhancing documentation for the indexing module. And have we mentioned that we've released a new version of our Orchard Visual Studio Extension, which now includes support for Razor Pages to the Dependency Injector?

Centralize the Indexing process, Remove Media files for a removed tenant when using Azure Blob Storage - This week in Orchard (20/06/2025)

This time, you can see a demo about centralizing the Indexing process and having a unified UI for managing Indexes and the Search Settings! But first, let's look at our other topics, like removing Media files for a removed tenant when using Azure Blob Storage, and adding RouteEndpoint cache. Don't forget that you can still fill out our Orchard Core Admin UI experience renewal survey to help shape the future of Orchard Core!

Add Autocomplete to the Stereotype text box, Lucene Search in practice - This week in Orchard (07/06/2024)

Add Autocomplete to the Stereotype text box, add Content Item ApiController.cs endpoints documentation, and a demo about Lucene Search in practice are the topics for this week. Don't forget to join our next Orchard Core Pair Programming session, where we'll continue building a decoupled CMS project! Let's see the details! Orchard Core updates Add Autocomplete to the Stereotype text box Now, the Stereotype is a text box, that is not user-friendly when making changes. For example, you may enter UserCustomSettings instead of CustomUserSettings. The goal here is to have some way to get all the Stereotypes that are currently supported by the system, and then list them, for example, by adding a dropdown menu to the Stereotype text box where you can still type what you want. Let's see this quickly in action! First of all, head to the admin UI of Orchard Core and edit the Content Definition of the predefined Blog Post content type by navigating to Content -> Content Definition -> Content Types (assuming you set up your site using the Blog recipe). Here, find the Stereotype text box and simply click on it. Once you do it, you will find a list showing you all of the stereotypes that are currently available on your site. Adding Content Item ApiController.cs endpoints documentation The OrchardCore.Contents module provides RESTful API endpoints via minimal API featuring endpoints to manage content items. These endpoints allow for operations such as retrieving, creating, updating, and deleting single content item instances. Access to these endpoints requires authentication and appropriate user role permissions. The documentation of the Contents module has been updated by adding Useful modules and libraries Activating the "OpenId Authorization Server" and "OpenId Token Validation" Features, and setting User Roles Contents API Controller Endpoints Demos Lucene Search in practice This is the Brittany All Cases management platform of Bethany built on top of Orchard Core CMS, using the full CMS, not just the framework. In this demo, you can see the search pages, where you can do the obvious search using queries. But you can also filter by different fields and properties on all added fields by marking a field as indexable. You can also do sorting by multiple things. Another feature is the different layout types. There is the normal summary view and the summary small, which is just the title and metadata. There is also a grid display type where you can add different fields that you want to display in the grid. You can also rename and remove the columns. The reason why column renaming is allowed is for the export. You can export all the search results into a CSV containing the renamed columns. And it's just the top of everything this site offers. If you are curious about what you can achieve using Orchard Core, check out this demo video on YouTube for more! News from the community Orchard Harvest 2024 date and location Get ready to power up your Orchard skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! Join us on September 12th-13th at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in lively Las Vegas for two days packed with learning, coding, and community fun. What can you expect at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024? Hands-On Workshops: Elevate your coding game with interactive sessions led by industry experts. Insider Insights: Learn best practices, advanced techniques, and real-world insights from qualified developers. Global Connections: Connect with fellow enthusiasts, exchange ideas, and forge meaningful relationships within the Orchard community. Special Perks: Participants get exclusive discounts on accommodations at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. Can't wait until September? Check out recordings from last year's special online Orchard Harvest on our YouTube channel here. Ready to be a part of something extraordinary? Reserve your spot today and take advantage of early-bird pricing at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024. We also opened the registration form for the speakers: https://forms.office.com/e/fewh7hh20d This year's leading themes: Leading up to a v3.0, what will the future Orchard Core look like? What's the role of a CMS nowadays (with the decoupled/headless operating models, and AI development tools) Explore some advanced topics such as Shapes, Placements, Cloud Integrations, Performance, module extensibility, etc. Showcases on implementing Orchard Core in action. Apply to be a speaker until the 15th of June, midnight Anywhere on Earth! We'll notify you whether your talk is selected for Harvest until the end of June. The chosen speakers will receive complimentary tickets for the event. Want to support our mission? Become a sponsor! Reach out to us at [email protected] or [email protected] to explore sponsorship opportunities. Secure your spot today and get ready to level up your skills at Orchard Harvest Conference 2024! See you there! Continued decoupled Orchard Core CMS for QTA with Hisham Bin Ateya - Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq We'll have the sixth session of Orchard Core Pair Programming by Lombiq! In these, we do an hour of pair programming with an Orchard Core community member about a project of theirs. We learn together a lot, share best practices, and write some good code. All this is live, and you can join us with your questions! Here, you can find the previous pair programming sessions, and here, you can find the stream for the upcoming one! See you at 5 PM UTC on the 11th! Hisham Bin Ateya, a core contributor of Orchard Core, joins us again with a follow-up to the previous stream. We'll see a decoupled CMS project he was building for the Quality Training Academy for Health Training from Saudi Arabia. Your host and the "navigator" of the pair programming session will be Zoltán Lehóczky from Lombiq. Would you like to be our guest? Just let us know! Orchard Dojo Newsletter Lombiq's Orchard Dojo Newsletter has 472 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!