Being an established company, we can also contribute financially to open-source projects, to the ones we find most valuable. On our open source page, you can find the projects and developers we currently support continuously.

The goal of our Sponsorship Spotlight blog post series is to conduct short interviews with the developers and project maintainers we currently support. This time, you can read an interview with Hisham Bin Ateya, one of the main developers of Orchard Core and the first contributor to receive the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award in 2024.

Ever lost a minute scrolling past features you'll never toggle, just to find the one you need?

Wondered which shape template actually rendered a fragment on one of your pages?

Curious what the redesigned Orchard Harvest website will look like?

And ready to simplify your Orchard Core hosting?

This week we've got all four, courtesy of Mike Alhayek and Nick Jackson, plus a look at DotNest.

Read on for the details, or jump to the section that matters to you!

When you add a custom settings page, does it look like it belongs in the admin UI?

When you utilize workflow activities, does JavaScript syntax have to be the only option?

After checking out this week's Orchard news, both have better answers.

Thanks to Mike Alhayek, admin forms across settings and configuration pages now use the same ocat-* CSS class conventions, replacing legacy Bootstrap and Orchard-specific helpers. And all workflow tasks that previously only supported JavaScript now also support Liquid, with a new LiquidTask added to match ScriptTask.

Also this week: Nick Jackson's Orchard Core website redesign is open for community feedback, and GoRide joins the showcase of sites running on Orchard Core.

Read on for the details, or jump to the section that matters to you!

Does your admin UI tell you when an SSL certificate is about to expire?

Does your deployment pipeline carry Security settings between environments, or does someone have to reconfigure them by hand?

After this week's post, the answer to both is yes!

This issue covers: SSL Check (color-coded expiration warnings on the Tenants page), Security settings import/export via deployment plans, and notification alerts converted to dismissible toasts.

Plus an interview with Antoine Griffard, one of Orchard's longest-running contributors!

Discover the brand-new Vue 3-powered Media Library by Jasmin Savard with real-time updates, resumable uploads, and a sleek new UI.

Get inspired by a real-world case study of long-term Orchard Core maintenance for the City of Santa Monica.

And of course, we continue to show the new features of Orchard Core v3 targeted at developers, such as Sára El-Saig's contribution on using Jint's async scripting APIs to avoid a sync-over-async call that can cause a thread deadlock, so it's always preferable.

The other change by Mike Alhayek introduces support for cancellation tokens throughout the email and SMS sending infrastructure and improves code documentation by adding XML doc comments.

Being an established company, we can also contribute financially to open-source projects, to the ones we find most valuable. On our open source page, you can find the projects and developers we currently support continuously.

The goal of our Sponsorship Spotlight blog post series is to conduct short interviews with the developers and project maintainers we currently support. This time, you can read an interview with Antoine Griffard, one of the main developers of Orchard Core.

The full Orchard Harvest 2026 conference program is live, with the event taking place in Vancouver on September 10-11. Grab your early-bird ticket for just $280 and join the community for two days of sessions and networking!

Form submissions shouldn't end up in manual copy-paste routines. Orchard Core connects directly with Zapier, Make, and n8n to automatically trigger CRM updates, notifications, and more. DotNest's managed hosting makes the whole setup hassle-free!

The Health Checks module by Hisham Bin Ateya lets you restrict access by IP, apply rate limiting, and DoS protection for your health check endpoints, all configurable via JSON.

Managing multiple tenants on the same database just got easier. New RequireTablePrefix and TablePrefixPattern options, introduced by Mike Alhayek, let you enforce or auto-generate table prefixes (e.g., using the tenant name), so your setup is consistent and error-free out of the box.

No more guessing which properties to use for the Settings recipe step. Every module with configurable settings now includes a dedicated Recipe Configuration section with examples!

Ready to explore? Let's dive in!

We are thrilled to announce that Orchard Core 3.0 is out! Check out this post to know everything about the latest release of Orchard Core. In the coming weeks, we will explore the latest features and additions in Orchard Core 3.0!

New documentation by contributor Quoc Bao An Nguyen covers how to work with the Admin Theme in Orchard Core for building consistent, maintainable custom admin interfaces.

Thanks to contributor ghazi1567, ReCaptcha settings can now be configured via ConfigureReCaptchaSettings(), allowing keys to be pulled from appsettings.json rather than only from the admin dashboard.

A new demo by Mike Alhayek showcases how the AI Suite can route chat sessions to live human agents (e.g., via Genesys), enabling hybrid AI-and-human support workflows.

We attended Digitalk's BeerUP Tech Fest, where we networked and gave a talk on .NET web architecture in regulated environments!

Have you heard that we rebuilt DotNest.com using reusable landing page sections, Tailwind 4 without Node.js, and AI-assisted workflows?

Nick Jackson demos an Electron desktop app that lets you spin up Orchard sites fast! Choose your modules and themes, manage recipes, all without touching an IDE.

Sébastien Ros introduced support for async JS evaluation using Jint's new async method, enabling workflows and other JS-dependent features to run without blocking.

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!

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!