Tales from the Evil Empire

I got this question more than once: "how can you use a different template for the first blog post?" The scenario is illustrated by this example:

In this screencast, I will demonstrate how to use the Taxonomies module in Orchard to create a simple news site.

One of our goals in Orchard is to make it possible and simple to change and customize the markup and style for everything that gets rendered by the application and its modules. Of course, this is made a lot trickier by our other big requirement of making everything a composition of atomic parts.

This screencast shows the basic set-up for an Orchard dev environment.

These things happen, and it seems hopeless at first: you've locked yourself out of your own site and that's that. Well, not quite. If you still have access to the database there is a way out. Access may be through FTP and WebMatrix or Visual Studio if using SQL CE or through SQL Server Management Studio or whatever is your preferred way to access your database. In this tutorial I'll use WebMatrix over a local SqlCe database but other tools would work just as well with minor differences.

My previous post focused on the most visible changes in Orchard 1.1 but we also made a few changes to the platform that open up new developer scenarios.

It was only three months ago that we shipped Orchard 1.0 and 1.1 is already here with some substantial improvements and many bug fixes. Let me walk you through the most important ones…