I developed a Bootstrap 4 Carousel Widget for Orchard Core CMS. It allows users to add a carousel to their Bootstrap 4 websites with no knowledge of HTML, yet at the same time, allow Orchard Core developers to modify and extend the module for easy customization. I built the widget for an upcoming developer presentation so I purposely used new features in Orchard Core CMS, including: new field...

I developed a Bootstrap 4 Carousel Widget for Orchard Core CMS. It allows users to add a carousel to their Bootstrap 4 websites with no knowledge of HTML, yet at the same time, allow Orchard Core developers to modify and extend the module for easy customization. I built the widget for an upcoming developer presentation so I purposely used new features in Orchard Core CMS, including: new field...

Good news for the beginners of Orchard Core! This week you could learn about how to build a new theme for Orchard Core from scratch!

DotNest has been around for a while (4 years to be exact) and has changed a lot. We at Lombiq listened to your continuous ad-hoc feedback and improved the service where we could. This time we ask you to tell your opinion directly: What would you change to make DotNest the best developer-focused Orchard hosting platform? We've prepared a five-minute survey and it would be awesome if you could fill it out! Click here to see it, and if you tell us your e-mail address we'll address your feedback in a reply too. Thanks in advance!

Last week we had no 'This week in Orchard' post because of vacation, so in this post we will focus on the happenings of last week. And we have a lot to talk about so get ready for a longer post!

While developing a new Orchard Core CMS Module I thought about dynamic theme selection in Orchard Core CMS. In the current version of Orchard CMS the administrator has the ability to preview the website using a different theme during his or her active session without changing the current theme on the website. This is a really awesome feature thankful to Orchard's support for theme selectors,...

I developed a Live Chat Module for Orchard Core CMS. This is similar to my robots.txt module that I just developed for Orchard Core in that it has custom settings that are populated in the admin dashboard, but different in that we want the live chat to be available on every page of the website. I will be developing a Google Analytics Module for Orchard Core using the same technique. I enabled...

Enjoying the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando the past few days. Go Knights! While visiting the campus I spent some down time at the Student Union developing a custom activity for Orchard Core Workflows. If you've read other blog posts of mine, you may know that I am a huge fan of the Workflows Module (and the Rules Engine before it) for extending the functionality of Orchard. I've...