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Privacy-friendly analytics and URL shortening, store user state in Audit Trail - This week in Orchard (11/09/2026)

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.

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Dynamic Translations, refactor IContentDefinitionService for improved modularity and design - This week in Orchard (13/02/2026)

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!

IntelliSense for recipes, Orchard Core Commerce 3.1 - This week in Orchard (06/02/2026)

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?

Agent Guidelines for Orchard Core, new marketing site on DotNest - This week in Orchard (30/01/2026)

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!

Block Content Type Picker for Flow Part and Bag Part, Christmas in Lombiq - This week in Orchard (19/12/2025)

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!