This week, I had the chance to attend the Orchard Harvest conference 2015 in Alicante, Spain.

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One of the cool things about Orchard as a CMS is the idea of Content Items. They allow you to dynamically add content to you website. One thing I wanted to add to a content item is taxonomies. This is a great way to categorize items dynamically, but how do I update a content items […]

It is pretty cool that Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform and now hosted on github. From the Orchard Committee: As a result of the huge problems that Codeplex has had in the last few weeks and the popularity GitHub has gained, Orchard CMS decided […]

Output caching has been significantly overhauled in the upcoming Orchard 1.9 release. This posts takes an in-depth look at what precipitated these changes, how the new output cache logic works, and how to best configure and use it to improve the performance of your sites.

Using the ICacheManager abstraction to cache frequently used data can significantly improve performance in your Orchard web sites. But when the work required to create that data is resource-intensive and your web site is under heavy load, bad stuff can happen. This post takes a look at how to make your caching code resilient to such circumstances.

Orchard is a great CMS, I suggest if you haven’t checked it out that you go and easily set it up on an azure website and give it a test drive. Here is an Orchard quick start guide. One of the cool things about Orchard is that it uses a database management system and that […]