Contents tagged with Orchard
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So what are zones really?
There is a (not so) particular kind of shape in Orchard: zones. Functionally, zones are places where other shapes can render. There are top-level zones, the ones defined on Layout, where widgets typically go, and there are local zones that can be defined anywhere. These local zones are what you target in placement.info. -
Creating shapes on the fly
Most Orchard shapes get created from part drivers, but they are a lot more versatile than that. They can actually be created from pretty much anywhere, including from templates. One example can be found in the Layout.cshtml file of the ThemeMachine theme: WorkContext.Layout.Footer
.Add(New.BadgeOfHonor(), "5");What this is really doing is create a new shape called BadgeOfHonor and injecting it into the Footer global zone (that has not yet been defined, which in itself is quite awesome) with an ordering rank of "5".
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Adding RSS to tags in Orchard
A year ago, I wrote a scary post about RSS in Orchard. RSS was one of the first features we implemented in our CMS, and it has stood the test of time rather well, but the post was explaining things at a level that was probably too abstract whereas my readers were expecting something a little more practical. -
Getting started with custom themes in Orchard
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Orchard list customization: first item template
I got this question more than once: "how can you use a different template for the first blog post?" The scenario is illustrated by this example:
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Using Taxonomies in Orchard
In this screencast, I will demonstrate how to use the Taxonomies module in Orchard to create a simple news site.
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Even better customizability in Orchard
One of our goals in Orchard is to make it possible and simple to change and customize the markup and style for everything that gets rendered by the application and its modules. Of course, this is made a lot trickier by our other big requirement of making everything a composition of atomic parts. -
How to get a source code enlistment set-up for Orchard
This screencast shows the basic set-up for an Orchard dev environment.
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Recovering the admin password in Orchard
These things happen, and it seems hopeless at first: you've locked yourself out of your own site and that's that. Well, not quite. If you still have access to the database there is a way out. Access may be through FTP and WebMatrix or Visual Studio if using SQL CE or through SQL Server Management Studio or whatever is your preferred way to access your database. In this tutorial I'll use WebMatrix over a local SqlCe database but other tools would work just as well with minor differences. -
Orchard 1.1: what's in it for developers?
My previous post focused on the most visible changes in Orchard 1.1 but we also made a few changes to the platform that open up new developer scenarios.