Want to read your content items as a grid with column headers instead of a list? Admin lists can now be rendered in a Grid layout, with a compact actions menu and a per-user layout selector.

Want users to choose how many items they see on a listing page, without changing the site-wide page size? A new opt-in selector lets them pick from a list of values you configure.

And wondering which CodeAnalysis packages work with which .NET SDK? A new guide for upgrading the SDK of Orchard Core explains how the SDK, Roslyn, and the CodeAnalysis packages have to line up.

We also show a new Orchard Core site: SBK Healthcare.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek and Georg von Kries.

Want to override a theme's Liquid templates without creating a new theme or restarting your app? Theme Customization, now continuing as Assisted Templates, clones them into the Templates store right from the admin UI.

Tired of hunting for the permissions page after creating a role? The new Save & Configure button takes you straight there.

And has a workflow ever silently done nothing because it had no startup task? Orchard Core now marks the first event as the startup task, and warns you if a workflow doesn't have one.

We also share how we repositioned Lombiq.com for the people who decide on critical platform projects.

This week's changes come from Rajeev Kumar and Sotiris Roussos.

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.

Losing conversion data due to ad blockers and browser tracking prevention? The Meta Pixel feature now supports the Meta Conversions API, so events can be sent to Meta straight from the server, even from a workflow.

Need to run your own code when a user signs out? A new ILogoutFormEvent interface and a User Logged Out workflow event cover that.

Looking for a community module or theme before building your own? The Orchard Core Gallery lists them and lets you filter by Orchard Core version and tags.

And still running Orchard 1? Lombiq's upgrade of Canopy Realtor Association's three sites to Orchard 1.11 shows how to stay current without a full platform migration.

This week's changes come from Jasmin Savard, Mike Alhayek, and Antoine Griffard.

Tired of enabling or disabling background tasks one by one? The Background Tasks admin list now has bulk actions, just like the Features list.

Ever changed an email/SMS or any other setting in the admin and wondered why the tenant had to reload for it to take effect? A new IOptionsMonitor refresh pipeline updates site settings-backed options without a shell release.

And how much of your module's project file is the same boilerplate as every other module's? Our custom MSBuild SDKs for Orchard Core handle references and package management for you.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, with a demo by Sára El-Saig.

Ever forgotten the exact syntax for filtering your content items, users, or audit trail events? The Available Filters dialog now shows every filter as a compact grid of cards.

Building a module that needs real-time updates across multiple server instances? A new SignalR module centralizes hub registration, authentication, and Redis or Azure backplane configuration.

Curious how Orchard Core works as a headless CMS behind a booking app? Dave Black demoed Flexstructor, a driving lessons application for instructors and learners.

And have you seen our redesigned website yet? It covers our software audit, technical due diligence, and data analytics services, not just Orchard Core.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, with a demo by Dave Black!

Ever wondered why a permission shows up as effective for a role you didn't expect, or struggled to figure out what a feature depends on before enabling it? The Admin Interface now explains both, with clearer effective-permission tooltips and a better Features UI experience.

Curious what's new across the Deployment, Data, Publish Later, and Alias module docs? They just got a lot more detailed.

Want to stop a flood of requests from hammering your login or API endpoints, or any of your endpoints? A new Rate Limits module adds centralized, configurable rate limiting for Orchard Core.

Do you know that DotNest sites have already been upgraded to Orchard Core 3.0? They have, along with the rest of the stack around them.

This week's changes come from Georg von Kries, Mike Alhayek, and Antoine Griffard.

Want interactive API documentation without hand-writing a schema? Orchard Core v4 is getting a new OpenApi module with Swagger, ReDoc, and Scalar built in.

Need sign-ins to survive a browser restart without relying on a user's Remember me checkbox? A new setting controls persistent authentication cookies site-wide.

And curious how the Visual Layout Editor has evolved since June? It now detects every editor shape correctly, even ones with multiple editors like the SEO Meta Part.

This week's changes come from Jasmin Savard, Georg von Kries, and Nick Jackson.

Want a more useful landing page when you open the admin area? The Admin Dashboard's default content just got a redesign, with new documentation on how to extend it yourself.

Need an audit trail of who changed which user, without leaking sensitive data into your database? Users Audit Trail now lets you control exactly what gets stored, redacted, or hashed per property.

And want privacy-friendly analytics and UTM tracking without a cookie banner? Lombiq Marketing, a new open-source module, adds cookie-free Pirsch analytics and a built-in URL shortener.

This week's changes come from Antoine Griffard and Sára El-Saig.

Need to filter the admin contents list by more than one content type at once? A small change now lets you pass multiple content type IDs or stereotypes in the same query.

Looking for documentation on YesSql, security, theming from an HTML template, the Media Picker, or shapes? Several new Key Topics pages cover exactly that.

Curious how Orchard Core scales across multiple backend nodes with failover? We walk through the upcoming tenant clustering feature.

And since this is our last This week in Orchard post before Orchard Harvest 2026, we cover the latest news about the now-online conference and the voting for the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award.

This week's changes come from Mike Alhayek, Antoine Griffard, Lazizbek Ergashev, and Sébastien Ros.