Orchard Beginner

Beginner's Guide To Orchard CMS

Created by Abhishek Luv / @orchardbeginner

What is Orchard CMS?

Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.

Orchard is built on a modern architecture that puts extensibility up-front, as its number one concern. All components in Orchard can be replaced or extended.

visit www.orchardproject.net/mission to know more about orchard and .Net Foundation

Latest version of Orchard?

Orchard 1.9.0 and 1.8.2 are the latest versions of Orchard! The release is published on Orchard Github website and on the Microsoft Web Application Gallery.

Testing Orchard without download it

Test drive Orchard CMS on a demo site by visiting www.tryorchard.net

How to get Orchard? Web or Source Code?

Orchard Source Code repository has been moved from CodePlex.com to GitHub.com

Visit www.github.com/orchardcms/orchard to download the latest version of Orchard.

WebMatrix or Visual Stuido?

WebMatrix is a light-weight, free web developer tool can be used for creating Orchard websites, Orchard Themes, etc but in order to create modules in Orchard, Visual Studio will be the right and the best tool. So, choose according to your project requirement

Orchard CMS folder structure

App_Data : For storing Dependencies , Logs, Recipes , Sites
Bin : For storing .dll files required by Orchard
Config : Contains configuration files
Core : Contains the core features provided by Orchard
Media : This folder is used to store contents like Images or any other files within a folder named similar to the selected Recipe while installing Orchard
Modules : Modules are stored in the Modules folder
Themes : Themes are stored in the Themes folder

Recipes in Orchard

Recipes in Orchard allows us to select the environment for our Orchard CMS Installation

Orchard CMS provides 3 Recipes by default

Default : Provides out of the box features of Orchard i.e. Pages, Blogs, Modules
Blog : Provides only the Blog feature
Core : Intended for developers who will create custom modules and themes

If you want to learn about Recipes in more detail then please check this course too.

Installing & Working with Orchard in WebMatrix

Exploring the dashboard

Exploring the Orchard dashboard

Manually Installing Orchard on IIS with SQL Server

Introducing DotNest : Orchard CMS Software as a service

Markdown support

Write content using inline or external Markdown. Instructions and more info available in the readme.

<section data-markdown>
  ## Markdown support

  Write content using inline or external Markdown.
  Instructions and more info available in the [readme](https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#markdown).
</section>

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