This week, you can see an interesting demo of the enhanced Blocks Editor, showcasing new features such as in-place block insertion, block duplication, cross-page block copying, and reusable Global Blocks!

But before that, let us quickly mention the newly added Agent Skills directly to Orchard Core for guided workflows!

If you haven't filled it out yet, please take a quick look at the Orchard Harvest 2026 survey that we will close on the 9th of March.

This week, you can see an interesting demo of the Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills repository, which provides enhanced AI-assisted theming with agent skills. But before that, let us quickly mention allowing mailto and tel links in the HTML sanitizer configuration and allowing an override of Reverse Proxy from the configuration! Oh, and did we mention that we have just created a survey for Orchard Harvest 2026?

This week, you can see an interesting demo of the Secrets module, which provides a secure, centralized way to store and manage sensitive data such as passwords, API keys, connection strings, and certificates! But before that, let us quickly mention the new Content Manager Delete behavior and the Dynamic Cache Options documentation! And don't forget to check out the latest release of the Lombiq GitHub Actions project!

This week, we mention the refactored IContentDefinitionService, allowing other modules to use content definition operations without referencing the entire ContentTypes module. See a demo of the Translation Editor that allows you to translate dynamic strings via the admin UI! And finally, check out a case study about how we rebuilt hajosnep.hu, Hungary's oldest maritime history association's website, with Orchard Core on DotNest!

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?

Orchard Core 3.0 will be released soon! In this new version, we removed the default implementations from interfaces and obsolete members, which we cover in our post. You could also read about a new Agent Guidelines documentation that explains to LLMs how to build, test, and run Orchard. Don't forget to check out a case study on a new marketing website on DotNest! Without further ado, let's dive in!

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!

The wait is over: version 1.11 of Orchard CMS is finally here! In this post, we will cover everything you need to know about this release, including the improvements to Orchard Core, such as adding content lifecycle docs and using the SLNX solution file format. Without further ado, let's dive in!

Happy New Year, Everyone! In our first post of this year, we will examine new Placeholder settings for Fields, explore how you can contribute to Orchard Core.net, and showcase the .NET Foundation's most active community projects for 2025! Without further ado, let's dive in!

Our last post of this year concerns moving GetAllCulturesAndAliases to the default implementation and adding missing docs for the Setup module. Don't forget to check out a demo about the Block Content Type Picker for Flow Part and Bag Part! We also want to share some photos of our Christmas event. Thank you all for reading our posts and for making the Orchard community stronger! See you next year!