What is Orchard Core?

Orchard Core Framework is an application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core.

Or you can use Orchard Core CMS, a Web Content Management System (CMS) built on top of the Orchard Core Framework, that allows you to build full websites, or headless websites using GraphQL.

Getting Started

Installing the templates

You can install the recommended templates by running:

dotnet new -i OrchardCore.ProjectTemplates::1.0.0-*

Creating a new modular application

Using the templates, a modular MVC application can be created by running:

dotnet new ocmvc -n MySite

And a module is created by running:

dotnet new ocmodulemvc -n MyModuledotnet add MySite reference MyModule

Creating a CMS website

If you want to create new site based on the Orchard Core CMS you only need to run this:

dotnet new occms -n MySitedotnet run --project .\MySite\MySite.csproj

After going through the setup form you get a working Blog.

What's new

Orchard Core is the product of more than 150 contributors, and has now 4K stars on GitHub.

Some notable improvements include:

- Content localization support, and pre-configured localized Setup experience

- Improved block content management experience

- Sitemaps management

- Azure support improvements

Resources

The Orchard Core source code is available on GitHub.

There are still many important pieces to add and you might want to check our roadmap, but it's also the best time to jump into the project and start contributing new modules, themes, improvements, or just ideas.

Feel free to drop on our dedicated Gitter chat and ask questions.

Open-source, modular, multi-tenant application framework and CMS for ASP.NET Core

Flexible content management 

Define custom content types dynamically and reuse content fields. Define roles and permissions for all your users. 

Full, decoupled, or headless cms 

You can separate the content management from the front-end by using GraphQL, and create SPA applications or even static websites. 

Modular 

Every feature is a module which ships as a Nuget package, can be enabled, disabled or replaced. Create your own ecosystem of modules, or reuse existing ones to bootstrap your applications.

Multi-tenant

A single installation lets you manage multiple sites. The notion of Recipe lets you write reusable websites templates. 

Speed 

Between the fast performance of ASP.NET Core and the architectural choices of Orchard Core CMS, you get one of the fastest CMS solutions you have ever tried, on any OS (Windows, Linux, MacOS). 

Workflows 

Create content validation workflows, and define Web Hooks to trigger external processes or react to external events 

List of changes for this release

• Update to ASP.NET Core 3.0
• Content Localization
• RTL admin theme
• Resources CDN
• Media CDN support
• GitHub authentication

Open-source, modular, multi-tenant application framework and CMS for ASP.NET Core

Flexible content management 

Define custom content types dynamically and reuse content fields. Define roles and permissions for all your users. 

Full, decoupled, or headless cms 

You can separate the content management from the front-end by using GraphQL, and create SPA applications or even static websites. 

Modular 

Every feature is a module which ships as a Nuget package, can be enabled, disabled or replaced. Create your own ecosystem of modules, or reuse existing ones to bootstrap your applications.

Multi-tenant

A single installation lets you manage multiple sites. The notion of Recipe lets you write reusable websites templates. 

Speed 

Between the fast performance of ASP.NET Core and the architectural choices of Orchard Core CMS, you get one of the fastest CMS solutions you have ever tried, on any OS (Windows, Linux, MacOS). 

Workflows 

Create content validation workflows, and define Web Hooks to trigger external processes or react to external events 

List of changes for this release

• Update to ASP.NET Core 2.2
• GraphQL for all Content
• Facebook, Microsoft Account, Google and Twitter authentication
• ASP.NET Configuration support
• Decoupled and headless CMS support
• Improved performance
• Background tasks management
• Taxonomies module
• Custom navigation
• ReCaptcha module
• Mini Profiler module
• Recipe migrations
• File based Content Definition
• The Coming Soon theme
• Edit and Display modes

Orchard Core consists of two different targets: 

• Orchard Core Framework: An application framework for building modular, multi-tenant applications on ASP.NET Core. 
• Orchard Core CMS: A Web Content Management System (CMS) built on top of the Orchard Core Framework. 

Here is a list of the new features implemented in this release: 

• Update to ASP.NET Core 2.1 
  • Precompiled Razor Views 
  • Razor Pages 
• Updated to Bootstrap 4.1 
• Admin responsive menu 
• Assets user interface improvements 
• Fragment caching 
• Content and Query tag helpers 
• Code based manifest files 
• Updated OpenId 
• Social login support 
• Email module 
• Password reset