Intro

Sometimes, when for example you're writing a Widget, you come across the need to know what the "current" content item being displayed is.

By "current", I mean the content item being routed to …

Intro

In this series we will be implementing a custom module to see what it takes to implement a Templated Messaging System that leverages not only basic Orchard stuff, but also more advanced APIs …

Orchard & WebApi

Today I had the privilege of trying out the new WebApi feature in Orchard, which as you may know is new as of Orchard 1.6.

Personally I think this is a very exciting addition, …

Today I came across the need for a custom menu item type for a new platform being built on Orchard.For this application, a lot of custom controllers will be created, and the user will be able to …

Today I had to write a little FilterWidget. Not a big deal of course, as it's all explained in the docs.

However, in this particular case, the client wanted to be able to drop one ore more …

For a new project I'm working on, I needed to override the title that is displayed in the Content Items overview in the dashboard. This overview lists all content items, and by default, displays …

11. Customizing the Product content list in the Admin: Display Types

This is part 11 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from scratch.For an overview of the tutorial, please see …

10. Managing the Customers and Orders from the backend

This is part 10 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from scratch.For an overview of the tutorial, please see the introduction. …

9. Creating Orders and Communicating with the PSP

This is part 9 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from scratch.For an overview of the tutorial, please see the introduction.

In this …

8. Registering new Customers with the site

This post has been updated to be compatible for Orchard >= 1.4.

This is part 8 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from scratch.For an …

7. Rendering the ShoppingCart and ShoppingCartWidget

This post has been updated to be compatible for Orchard >= 1.4.

This is part 7 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from scratch.For …

6. Creating the ShoppingCart service and controller

This post has been updated to be compatible for Orchard >= 1.4.

This is part 6 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from …

5. Defining and rendering the ProductCatalog Content Type

This post has been updated to be compatible for Orchard >= 1.4.

This is part 5 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from …

4. Defining the ProductPart

This post has been updated to be compatible for Orchard >= 1.4.

This is part 4 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from scratch.For an overview of the …

3. Creating the Orchard.Webshop Module Project

This post has been updated to be compatible for Orchard >= 1.4.

This is part 3 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from scratch.For an …

2. Setting up your Orchard Development Environment (ODE)

This post has been updated to be compatible for Orchard >= 1.4.

This is part 2 of a tutorial on writing a new Orchard module from …

Introduction

In this blog post series we will walk through the process of building an Orchard module from scratch!

Orchard is an awesome CMS with powerful features and inspiring architecture that …