Add Placeholder setting to Fields, .NET Foundation most active community projects 2025 - This week in Orchard (09/01/2026)
Happy New Year, Everyone! In our first post of this year, we will examine new Placeholder settings for Fields, explore how you can contribute to Orchard Core.net, and showcase the .NET Foundation's most active community projects for 2025! Without further ado, let's dive in!
Orchard Core updates
Add Placeholder setting to Fields
This feature adds a Placeholder option to the Fields settings, allowing admins to specify a placeholder that appears in the editor UI when content authors enter text. The placeholder improves the editor experience by giving content authors contextual guidance when entering text values.
You can set the Placeholder when editing the following Content Fields:
- Content Picker Field
- Text Field
- User Picker Field
- YouTube Field
- Taxonomy Field
But you can set the placeholder text for the Title Part, too.
Here, we have a site set up with the Blog recipe, which includes a predefined content type called Blog Post. We said we want to display a placeholder for the Title Part and the Text Field called Subtitle. To set this up for the Text Field, we simply navigated to Design -> Content Definition -> Content Types and clicked Edit next to the Blog Post content type. After we edited the Subtitle field, where we entered the "The subtitle of the blog post." text into the new Placeholder text box under the Hint text area. We did the same for the Title Part.
And now, if we create a new Blog Post content item, you will see that the greyish placeholder text is inside the Title and Subtitle text boxes. Thank you, Plamco, for your first contribution!
Adding docs page about contributing to orchardcore.net
Yes, you heard it right: Orchard Core's official website is open source, which means you can contribute to it too! Zoltán Lehóczky added a page that helps you start and explains what you can contribute. Check out this page for more details!
News from the community
.NET Foundation most active community projects 2025
Shaun Walker shared this image on X that shows the most active community projects based on the number of pull requests, commits, and new contributors.
As you can see, Orchard has 851 pull requests in 2025, which is great, but Orchard has 772 commits, which is weird. Why do we have more pull requests than commits? Do we close that many pull requests? The reason for that could be that we have some mini PRs created by Renovate.
And we haven't talked about which projects use squash and merge and which don't. But it's still nice to see Orchard in the top 10 for many years now! And don't forget about the fact that Orchard Core recently reached 8000 (7990 currently to be precise) stars on GitHub! If you haven't done it yet, star the Orchard Core repository to help us reach 8k stars!
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