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Orchard Harvest 2026 Early Bird tickets, exploring Orchard Core's Next-Gen Visual Layout Editor Feature - This week in Orchard (05/06/2026)

Explore a powerful new module for Orchard Core by Nick Jackson that lets you visually organize content type editor fields and parts into tabs, cards, and columns via an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, with zero coding or placement.json editing required!

Did you know that with just a few configuration tweaks and a single project reference, you can extend Orchard Core CMS with your very own custom module that is fully integrated into the admin UI and discoverable at runtime? Check out this brand-new guide by Manuel Tamayo Montero!

We're excited to open registration for Orchard Harvest 2026! Secure your spot today for the early bird pricing and get ready to level up your skills!

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Orchard Harvest 2026 Location, Bulk option for attaching Localization Part to content types - This week in Orchard (27/03/2026)

This time, you can see a demo by Hisham Bin Ateya of a bulk option for attaching the Localization Part to content types.

Before that, let's check out the new Data Protection guide, thanks to Laode Muhammad Al Fatih, which provides information on implementing data protection in Orchard Core applications, particularly in multi-tenant and load-balanced environments.

And thanks to Nick Jackson, there is a new settings panel with a CodeMirror textarea for customizing the EasyMDE editor options on both the Markdown Field and the MarkdownBody Part when using the WYSIWYG editor.

Without further ado, let's dive in!

AI-driven theme editor on the admin UI, Available Storage indicator for the Media Library - This week in Orchard (20/03/2026)

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.

CrestApps Agent Skills, Orchard Harvest 2026 survey results - This week in Orchard (13/03/2026)

This week, you can see a demo of the CrestApps.AgentSkills ecosystem by Mike Alhayek, which provides a clean, layered architecture for defining, organizing, and exposing AI skills in .NET, with first-class support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Orchard Core.

But before that, let us quickly mention how Georg von Kries refactored Orchard Core's code to optimize storage for display type locations, or how he obsoleted the synchronous CustomSettingsService.GetSettingsType method to improve performance by avoiding blocking calls, and to prepare the codebase for the future removal of the synchronous API.

Thank you for filling out the Orchard Harvest 2026 survey! Check out our post for the results and the future plans regarding Harvest!

Enhanced Blocks Editor for content creators, Last call: Orchard Harvest 2026 survey - This week in Orchard (06/03/2026)

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.

Orchard Harvest 2026 survey, Lombiq Orchard Core Agent Skills - This week in Orchard (27/02/2026)

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?

Secrets module, Lombiq GitHub Actions v4.2.0 - This week in Orchard (20/02/2026)

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!

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!