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.

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.

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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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This time, you can see a proof-of-concept demo for an admin UI-based theme editor with AI integration by Márk Bartha from Lombiq.

But before that, let us quickly mention the newly available storage indicator for the Media Library by Sára El-Saig, which notifies the user of the free space on the local file system when storing media items.

And thanks to Manuel Tamayo Montero, the Orchard Core documentation has been updated with additional lines to help developers use the Anchor Tag Helper.

See how we replaced the dynamic ContentCard shapes with strongly typed shapes to enhance Orchard Core development! Take a look at the updated documentation for the UserDisplayName shape if you struggled to display user information in your custom format. You could also see a demo about how to expose recipe step metadata and JSON schemas, enabling IDE autocompletion, AI tooling integration, and recipe validation. Oh, and have we mentioned that Orchard Core Commerce has just got a fresh new release?

This week's topics include adding ShapeResult.Cache() docs, and migrating Media and Resources modules from Gulp to asset manager pipeline, and a demo of the AI Chat Interactions module! Let's just get right into the news!

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!

Cast your vote for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award! This week's topics include simplifying using StringValues in Liquid templates and shape morphing in Razor pages! Oh, and do you know about the Orchard Harvest's sponsorship opportunity?

Don't miss your chance to shape the conversation at the Orchard Harvest Conference 2025! It's also time to nominate exemplary community members for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award. This week's topics include introducing a new User Display Name shape and a new page in the documentation about the Archive Later feature.

The new AddShapeTableProvider extension method and the new External Authentication Feature are the topics for this week. Don't forget to check out our newest Orchard Nuggets post about how to add workflows to an ASP.NET Core app! Let's see the details!