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Orchard Core MCP Server, Orchard Harvest 2026 Recordings - This week in Orchard (23/10/2026)

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.

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Hosting Orchard Core at Exoscale
zoltan.lehoczky
Step away from that Node.js
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Orchard Harvest Panel discussion, add node title to each outcome in the workflow - This week in Orchard (17/10/2025)

Don't miss your chance to shape the conversation at the Orchard Harvest Conference 2025! This week's topics include adding a node title to each outcome in the workflow and fixing the alpha slider functionality in the Color Editor for the Text Field! You can also read an interview with Toby Dodds on Orchard Core at Smithsonian Folkways!

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!

Orchard Harvest 2025 venue, new function to clone existing roles - This week in Orchard (05/09/2025)

We have the venue for the Orchard Harvest conference! Our topics for this week are simplifying security headers settings using tabs and a new function to clone existing roles. Don't forget to check out our Open-Source Orchard Core Extensions project, which is updated to the latest and greatest 2.2.0 Orchard Core version.

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!

Migrate the OpenID module to OpenIddict 7.0, Orchard CMS Dev-Time Orchestration with ASP.NET Aspire - This week in Orchard (01/08/2025)

This week, we would like to show you a tutorial about Orchard CMS Dev-Time Orchestration with ASP.NET Aspire! But first, check out the fix for the native validation when the invalid input is hidden and the updated OpenID module to OpenIddict 7.0! Without further ado, let's get started!