Content Part Development Checklist

Here's a high-level checklist you can run through so you don't forget anything when building content parts...

Media Manager And Image Editor In 1.7

Orchard 1.7 contains a new media manager as well as a number of features to help process and edit media within Orchard. All of this is still in development, but I am seeing new built-in media conte

Creating A Theme From A WrapBootstrap Template - Part 4

Sorry that it's been a few weeks since the last post, I've been incredibly busy and haven't had a chance to sit down and write the next installment, but here we are finally and ready to start makin

Weekly Podcast 05/07/2013

Meeting notes:

• Announcements




• new web sites: <a href="http

Running With SSL

An important part of any production site is protecting user logins and data. Many sites can be built without the need for SSL because they do not have users authenticating to them or updates are on

Theme Selection Per Action

I had a need on a custom web application project recently to use more than one theme in Orchard, one for the standard front-end of the website and one for a back-end portion of my custom module. Af

Creating A Theme From A WrapBootstrap Template - Part 3

In our previous post, we completed the header and navigation containers in our Layout.cshtml. In this post, we're going to work on the main content container and the footer. I decided to break up the Layout.cshtml file into multiple blog posts because there is so much going on in this file to define the site structure that a single blog post would have been too long.

Creating A Theme From A WrapBootstrap Template - Part 2

In our previous post, we setup the bulk of the file structure for our theme including scr

Creating A Theme From A WrapBootstrap Template - Part 1

If you're a Twitter Bootstrap fan like myself, then you're already familiar with how easy it is to work with the styles and scripts included with Bootstrap. If you haven't discovered WrapBootstrap yet, you're in for a treat. WrapBootstrap is another website that sells templates, however, all of the templates on WrapBootstrap are built using Twitter Bootstrap.

Version 1.7 Previewed

.NET based CMS Orchard has reached the 4,000,000 module and theme download mark, and is now readying its next r

An Open Source CMS That Is Ready To Harvest

It may not be top of mind for most people yet, but Orchard has rapidly become a robust option for a CMS on the .NET platform. It?s free, open source and already powering online stores for major bra

Weekly Podcast 04/30/2013

Meeting notes:

• A security vulnerability has been found in all versions

Security patch recommended for all versions of Orchard

Background

A non-persistent XSS vulnerability has been discovered in the Orchard.Comments module that is distributed with the core distribution of the CMS. The module could in some circums

Weekly Podcast 04/23/2013

Oxford Economics: A Success Case

The specific challenge of this project was to provide a long-overdue modern user experience for the company?s website which consisted of two major areas dealing with marketing and providing custome

Workflow Module

Looking forward to the release of the Orchard Workflow Module, which will probably be released around the same time as Orchard 1.7. The Workflow Module will probably replace the <a href="h

Weekly Podcast 04/16/2013

Demo from Znowman: Tabs in the content item editor. Works with full drag&drop admin, and with placement extensions: "Content:5#tabName". Should be changed to "Content@tabName:5". Tabs will be moved to inside the white rectangle of the content item editor. Make the selected tab persist after save.

Testing Drivers

If you?ve ever tried to test Orchard part drivers, you may have been blocked by the fact that the methods on drivers are protected. That, fortunately, doesn?t mean they are untestable. Those method

A C# Helper To Read And Write XML From And To Objects

This is especially useful when writing the import and export methods in an Orchard part driver.

Weekly Podcast 04/09/2013