Shoogr is a clean and modern marketing website built for Hungarian marketing strategist and coach Judit Sugár, whose main audience includes solo founders and small businesses. The site was developed and this blog post was written by Márk Bartha, one of the longest-serving team members at Lombiq, as part of his freelance work.

Orchard Core updatesImprove FlatPositionComparer performanceThis change introduces significant performance and correctness improvements to the FlatPositionComparer class, which is used to compare and sort position strings in Orchard Core. The main modifications optimize string handling by reducing allocations, improving normalization and comparison logic, and adding comprehensive benchmarks to measure their impact.

Orchard Core updatesSimplify using StringValues in Liquid templatesThe idea is to provide a custom Fluid value type called StringValuesValue. If you get an HTTP request, you get some query string elements, headers, or form values as string values, and it probably does not work with the current conversion because it was always converted to an array. We had to allocate an array every time, and this PR also simplifies accessing it when you only have a single value. So, you don't need an indexer to get the first value. Now (because it's a FluidValue), there's an implicit conversion in the ToStringValue() method. In this case, when you ask for the property itself and you don't say [0] to get the first value, you will get the first value. And it supports the same properties as an array: size, first, and last.

Orchard Core updatesNew User Display Name shapeThe User Display Name shape has been introduced by Mike Alhayek to render a user's display name in a consistent and cache-friendly way. This is frequently used in admin content lists. To use this shape:

Orchard Core updatesAdd node title to each outcome in the workflowCurrently, when you hover over the dots while trying to connect workflow events or tasks, there is no title to indicate what each dot (outcome) signifies. With this change, hovering over the dot will show the title of the outcome. It sounds like a minor improvement, but it was a little annoying that you had to start to connect a task to another one to see the name of the outcome.

Orchard Core updatesLiquid Tag Disabled by DefaultFor reliability and performance reasons, the liquid tag has been disabled by default in Liquid templates. To re-enable the liquid tag, you can configure it in your appsettings.json:

Sounds like clickbait, right? Fair enough, here's the TL;DR: We moved our Azure Web App from the Windows S1 plan to the new Linux P0v4 plan. Read on for the details!

Orchard Core updatesMove Hint and Required properties to FieldSettingsHere, you can see a refactoring where the Hint and Required properties for the Content Fields are moved to a new base called FieldSettings. Therefore, from now on, if you are implementing a class for your own custom field, you no longer need to add the Required and Hint properties repeatedly; you can use the FieldSettings base class instead.