Platform updates, case studies, and insights from the DotNest and Orchard Core ecosystem.
Featured Tags
You could access your DotNest sites securely through HTTPS from day 1; however, this required you to use a custom port. E.g. when accessing your site "mysite.dotnest.com" securely you would have used the URL "https://mysite.dotnest.com:8443" with that ugly "8443" at the end. But not any more! All …
We've announced yesterday on the community meeting a new "feature" of DotNest (which is actually available for a little while now): localization packages. We've added the translation files of built-in modules for the following languages: French (fr-FR), Italian (it-IT), Russian (ru-RU), Simplified …
When hearing about DotNest and trying it for the first time, you must have a lot of questions about it and its capabilities. Our fellow Orchard Dojo trainer, Abhishek Luv is here to answer them with a series of video tutorials! Currently there are 3 of them (introduction, tenant management, Theme …
You probably heard about Try Orchard!: it's a free service where you can test drive Orchard on demo sites, without having to register, download or set up anything. Now Try Orchard! just got smarter with an Orchard walkthrough. When you visit a Try Orchard! demo site you'll be greeted by a tooltip …
We're pleased to announce a brand new DotNest site that will be a massive help for Orchard newcomers: Orchard Beginner! Orchard Beginner really aims to help those who're just starting with Orchard. The site's content is still being expanded rapidly but it already gives Orchard rookies some very …
So what if you're a total newcomer to Orchard but want to see it in action, without having to download, install, set up anything or signing up anywhere (not even DotNest)? You can Try Orchard! Try Orchard is just a quick prototype right now, but you can see that it's a set of periodically re- …
BindTuning, a well-known company of theme designers and web developers from Portugal contributed some of their themes so that they are available to DotNest users for free! Metro: a theme with clean and elegant design, following the principles of the Modern UI. Terra: clean and flexible design with …
We have released two Bootstrap-based themes that are available for every DotNest site for free: Philip Senechal, the well-known Orchard theme development professional and freelancer known for his cool Boostrap-based themes provided us with updated, Orchard 1.8-compatible versions for two of his …
As you may know, all DotNest sites have the Combinator module enabled (and configured) by default. This module automatically bundles and minifies static resources (like stylesheets and script files) to enhance client-side performance. Now Combinator got a lot faster with a feature called resource …
The Preview phase of DotNest ends today. We're very excited to take DotNest to the next level, because we really strive to provide an awesome Orchard SaaS for you! The end of the Preview also means that custom domain usage is not free anymore. But we value that you were among the early adopters of …
