The Charlotte Regional Realtor Association®, or more precisely Carolina Multiple Listing Services® got in touch with us to get some hands-on help with launching their new Orchard-based websites. The Association represents more than 9000 Realtors® (real estate professionals) in the Charlotte (North Carolina, USA) region.

I taught an advanced development class on Orchard CMS this morning, and thought I would mention a live coding example I did today. My favorite parts of Orchard CMS are the behind-the-scenes features that you don't hear too much about, like scheduling tasks, events, workflow, etc. These are incredibly powerful CMS features and most Orchard CMS Developers I talk to rarely utilize them to their...

If you are having issues with bots spamming your forms in Orchard CMS but don't want to use CAPTCHA, an 'old school' method I used years ago was a honeypot form field. This is a non-visible form field that users won't see and fill in. However, simple bots will detect the field and fill it in along with all the other fields on the form. Given this behavior, one can usually detect spam by checking...

As you surely know you have complete control over theming your DotNest site, including using custom templates written in the Liquid language. The latter got some important updates now:

TinyMCE is a great editor, but by default is not enabled the font size and font color select.The enabling of this two features is really easy. Go to \src\Orchard.Web\Modules\TinyMce\Scripts\ and open orchard-tinymce.js. Inside tinyMCE.init there is a toolbar property. After the formatselect add forecolor fontsizeselect. Now the toolbar property should look like this: toolbar: "undo redo cut copy paste | bold italic | bullist numlist outdent indent formatselect forecolor fontsizeselect | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify ltr rtl | " + mediaPlugins + " link unlink charmap | code fullscreen",toolbar: "undo redo cut copy paste | bold italic | bullist numlist outdent indent formatselect forecolor fontsizeselect | alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify ltr rtl | " + mediaPlugins + " link unlink charmap | code fullscreen" If you want to change the font sizes values add this property after the toolbar property: fontsize_formats: "8px 9px 10px 11px 12px 14px 16px 18px 24px 36px" That’s it, you are ready! If you want you can download the updated orchard-tinymce.js from here.

TinyMCE is used as Content Editor for many Content Management Systems. Orchard uses TinyMCE as default content editor. While it does support basic formatting, one of the requirement for a project was to able to support Bootstrap Typogrpahy/CSS Component styles available in TinyMCE Editor. This is possible with customization of tinymce configuration. This article will cover how to handle this in Orchard CMS. This similar approach is possible in other content management systems.

Recent Blog Posts widget of Orchard CMS works really good and the layout customization of a blog post is a piece of cake with placement.info. But maybe you need to have different layouts for recent blog posts widgets or maybe you want to share your blog posts to other sites. With this jQuery script, you can do it!

Hello, I finally decided it was time to "write tech" in my first ever professional blog. I do encounter lots of interesting stuff and while Google/Stack overflow does wonderful job of saving time and pointing to right direction, many times I feel that writing about things which I don't find easily will help someone out there if they run into similar challenge.