This week's topics are making Resources Tag Helper extensible and keeping only important virtual methods in drivers. And after the nomination of exemplary community members to the Jean-Thierry Kéchichian Community Award, it's time to cast your votes! There are only two weeks left until the Orchard Harvest conference! Let's see the news for this week!

We’ve already presented a case study for the Show Orchard website focusing on migrating an Orchard 1 DotNest website to Orchard Core with content migration using the Orchard 1 Recipe Migration feature; you can read that here. Now, the GPU Day website is very similar except the content migration was simplified and we didn’t overhaul the website markup and styling. It’s a great example of how you can easily transition to Orchard Core keeping everything as is if you don’t have the time or budget to modernize every area of the site.

It's incredible to think about it, but DotNest just turned 10 today. Yes, we started on the 4th of March, 2014! While we're primarily an Orchard Core SaaS today, at that time, it was Orchard 1, of course. And since then, you've chosen us to host almost 6700 Orchard sites - wow, thank you! We wanted to celebrate this unique occasion with a very special limited offer; read on to see what you can get now if you launch a new site on DotNest.

Governments use Orchard Core too! Even in this blog, we've seen how Lombiq worked with the municipal government of Santa Monica and with the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, which is an agency of the US federal government. But did you know that apart from flashy websites, Orchard can also provide important services for citizens behind the scenes? The multi-tenant case management platform of a GovTech company we worked with does exactly that: If you live in a US city, you may have dealt with your permit or other license via the platform! And as you may have guessed, we're working with the company as Orchard Core experts.

Do you want to learn about the most important Orchard Core features with a hands-on tutorial that guides you with interactive tooltips, right there in Orchard Core? We now have a module available for you!

Git-hg Mirror is a site of our own, that was previously built on Orchard 1 and was migrated to Orchard Core. The site is a simple-to-use (at least this is the intention) web application to automatically keep a Git and a Mercurial repository or two Mercurial or two Git repositories in sync. This allows you to create mirrors of repositories in the other version control system. The site’s FAQ page provides more information about the site’s purpose and functionality.

Upgrading the Default Theme to use Bootstrap 5.3.2, adding placeholder for Taxonomy Part and Taxonomy Field, and a case study about migrating an Orchard 1 DotNest site to Orchard Core! Check out our post for the details!

Upgrading the Admin theme to use Bootstrap 5.3.2, displaying the Orchard Core logo in the HTML head in Admin branding, and a discussion about having Orchard Core Workshops again! Check out our post for the details!