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George Roubie, an Orchard developer from Greece runs his personal development blog on DotNest as Orchard Tricks. Now he has summarized how he has created his site in this detailed case study. Enjoy! This is a guest post by George Roubie. Choose a template You can create your custom theme from …
It was a recurring request we received from all of you people running Orchard sites on DotNest that it should be easier to build image carousels/sliders. So we listened and added a module to allow just that! The newly released Lombiq Layouts module is now available for all DotNest sites. The module …
As announced recently a theme for Orchard community sites, as well as free custom domain usage for them is now available on DotNest. The first such community site to be moved to DotNest is the Orchard Project Indian Community website: Abhishek migrated the website from Azure to DotNest very quickly. …
If you run a local Orchard community website or want to launch one there's some good news for you: on DotNest there's a built-in theme for you as well as the treat that you don't need to pay for custom domain usage! Abhishek Luv (Indian Orchard community member and Orchard Dojo Trainer) asked us …
After some other recent improvements theming a DotNest site is now even closer to writing standard Orchard themes: with some complicated fixes around how URLs are handled (you don't want to know details, trust me!) writing a Media Theme is now a lot better experience. Templates and URL helpers in …
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: If you have errors in your template then it will be shown in place of the template and also logged with the …
The latest version of Orchard, 1.10.1 was released not long ago (just very little after the latest major version, 1.10) and now all DotNest sites are also upgraded: so DotNest is fully 1.10.1! It took us some time to apply this upgrade, but hey, if you have almost 1000 sites to care about it's a …
As you surely know there are a variety of options to theme your DotNest site, including going hardcore and writing templates with Liquid markup. Now if you're among those hardcore developers who want to write code even for their DotNest sites, good news: Liquid just good a lot smarter! The Liquid …
Three new modules arrived to all DotNest sites today to allow your users to vote content up/down and mark them as their favorite! Namely, these modules are now available on DotNest: Favorite by Nick Mayne: users can mark content items as their favorite. Vote Up/Down by Nick Mayne: users can vote …
It's not a bad thing if your website is actually used by people. And now on DotNest you have the tools to improve your user's experience and make them feel home with custom profiles and avatars! For this we just added two modules, available on all DotNest sites: Profile: this is the module that …
