The same way as with lombiq.com, we wanted to modernize the site, while improving the looks. So, Dojo was redesigned while keeping the core functionalities, and message of the website. We wanted the design to look similar to the lombiq.com website, but at the same time stand apart from it. This was achieved with a new color palette, that uses a darker less contrasted version of the original Lombiq colors (red, blue, and green). We also focused on improving the site's usability and aesthetics, ensuring it is both visually appealing and easy to navigate.

KeynoteWe started this year's Orchard Harvest conference with a Keynote by Zoltán Lehóczky. He talked about the newest Orchard Core version 2.0.0, just released a few days ago, the new features of the current release and how popular this CMS is compared to other .NET-based platforms. Finally, he showed the future of the CMS, what are the plans for the upcoming 2.x releases and what should we add to the next major version of Orchard Core.

Building the Orchard Core CommunityOver the last year or so, we've seen numerous improvements in how we function as a community. In this talk by Zoltán Lehóczky, we went through what has happened, what effects certain changes had on our community life, and a vision for what we'll see next. He talked about the new Discord server for Orchard Core, and the improvements related to GitHub, for example now we have automation, we auto-close unresponsive new issues, and we have AI code reviews with Code Rabbit, and merge conflict notifications. We have no untriaged issues because the new ones get triaged within a week. Finally, he talked about the next steps like having a Community manager or bringing back the Steering committee.

Orchard Core updatesBlazor guide for decoupled CMSThere is a new guide in the Orchard Core Documentation which helps you to learn how to use Orchard CMS as a decoupled CMS with the .NET Blazor (SSR/Server Interactive) Application. By following this guide, you will learn how to create a Blazor App in the Razor Class library, how to serve a Blazor App from Orchard Core, or how to add Orchard Core content to the Blazor Page. For the end of this guide, you will have a Blazor application that supports multi-tenancy too! Head to the documentation page of Orchard Core where you will find this guide with the source code as well.

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.

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.