Orchard CMS Tutorial for Absolute Beginners

Orchard CMS for Absolute Beginners is a course about the latest open source .NET Content Management System which is written using the ASP.NET MVC framework

• What is Orchard CMS
• Basic’s of Orchard CMS
• Terminologies used in Orchard CMS
• How to install Orchard CMS both locally and remotely on a live web server
• How to use Orchard CMS
• How to install Modules and Themes from the Orchard Gallery
• How to create Pages, Blogs
• How to use out of the box features provided by Orchard to create Categories, Menus and Email Notifications using the workflow module

Hello Welcome to this course on “Orchard CMS for Absolute Beginners”.

Are you confused, frustrated or intimidated about how to begin or get started with Orchard CMS? If your answer to this question is YES, then this course is for YOU!

What is this course about?

Orchard CMS for Absolute Beginners is a course about the latest open-source .NET Content Management System which is written in ASP.NET platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework.

What are the course requirements?

In order to get started with this course you will need to install the following things on your computer

• Microsoft WebMatrix 3
• SQL Server 2012 Express
• Visual Studio 2012 or higher (Including free express editions)
• Download Orchard CMS source and web project from CodePlex
• IIS 7.5/ 8 / 8.1
• Any web browser

How will you benefit from this course?

You will get a good working knowledge of Orchard CMS and its admin panel and how to use Orchard CMS as an advanced user.

After completing this course you will be able to download Orchard, Install it locally and remotely on a live web server, use the Orchard admin panel very efficiently, Install new themes and modules from the gallery, create pages, blogs and pretty much everything that a content manager will do to manage his content using Orchard CMS.

What things you will be learning in this course?

• Getting started with Orchard CMS
• Learn how to Install Orchard CMS on your local IIIS
• Learn about all the Orchard CMS Terminologies
• Learn how to use the Orchard CMS Admin Panel
• Learn how to host an Orchard CMS website on to a live web server
• Learn how to use the Built-In Modules & feature in Orchard CMS

Before you join this course I would like to introduce myself to you.

My name is Abhishek Luv and I’m from Mumbai, India. I’m an Orchard Dojo trainer and a contributor to the official orchard cms documentation website and I have created numerous courses and tutorial videos on orchard. I’m also the founder of Orchard Beginner. Now, orchard beginner is and will be the one-stop place where you can get started with orchard cms , but orchard beginner is still in its initial stage and it will build up pretty soon. And I’m also the founder of the orchard cms india community.

I hope that I have convinced you to join this course. Join Now.

Thank You!

Hello,

Thanks for joining this course. It has been quite a long time that this course was not updated but still the course content is fully relevant to all the concepts of Orchard.

For latest content on Orchard please join us at Orchard Beginner.

Orchard Beginner is created with the aim to provide users and developers to have a Beginner's Guide to learn the ins and outs of Orchard.

Orchard is delivered under the .NET Foundation http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/orchard. For more info on Orchard visit the official website http://www.orchardproject.net/ and for more Orchard CMS tutorials subscribe to our channel or bookmark this website http://orchardbeginner.com/ for future reference.

• Orchard CMS is a free , open source, community-focused content management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform
• Orchard CMS can be used for creating public facing websites, blogs, forums or web apps
• ShowOrchard is an awesome website which shows one of the best websites created using Orchard CMS www.showorchard.com

Try Orchard! is a showcase for the Orchard content management framework: you can try how Orchard feels by checking out an already running demo site where you can play with Orchard as you wish. You can log in to the admin site with the admin/password credentials.

Try Orchard! demo sites are re-installed hourly. There are five demo sites running at the same time and from the above links you can open the freshest (i.e. that was installed most recently) site.

Demo sites run on DotNest, the Orchard SaaS.

• ASP.NET MVC – Web Framework
• WebApi – Web Service in Orchard
• AutoFac – Dependency Injection
• Castle – Dynamic Proxy
• Nhibernate – ORM (Database)
• Many more…

There are two different scenarios in which Orchard CMS can be used 1.User and 2.Developer

• User : Web project is a web-ready instance of Orchard CMS which is ready for deployment
• Developer : Source code project contains the whole source code of Orchard CMS which is to be used by a developer for creating custom modules or may be extend some features within Orchard

• WebMatrix is a light-weight, free web developer tool
• Can be used for creating Orchard websites, Orchard Themes, etc
• In order to create modules in Orchard, Visual Studio will be the right and the best tool. So, choose wisely and according to your project requirement

Recipes in Orchard allows us to select the environment for our Orchard CMS Installation

Orchard CMS provides 3 Recipes by default

• Default : Provides out of the box features of Orchard i.e. Pages, Blogs, Modules
• Blog : Provides only the Blog feature
• Core : Intended for developers who will create custom modules and themes

If you want to learn about Recipes in more detail then please check this course too.

https://www.udemy.com/orchard-cms-tutorial-recipes-in-orchard-cms

• Copy-Paste the Orchard folder within the wwwroot folder
• Open IIS Manager, Convert to application and apply App-Pool
• Give write permissions to the App_Data and the Media folder
• Browse to the website
• Orchard CMS Installation Page, Select Recipe and click Finish Setup

• IIS Full trust level is required by Orchard CMS starting from version 1.6
• Orchard is configured out of the box to run in Full Trust and
• Medium Trust is no longer supported
• Latest versions of Orchard do not support Medium Trust

• App_Data : For storing Dependencies , Logs, Recipes , Sites
• Bin : For storing .dll files required by Orchard
• Config : Contains configuration files
• Core : Contains the core features provided by Orchard
• Media : This folder is used to store contents like Images or any other files within a folder named similar to the selected Recipe while installing Orchard
• Modules : Modules are stored in the Modules folder
• Themes : Themes are stored in the Themes folder

• Installing themes from the Orchard Theme Gallery
• Bindtuning.com

• Modules according to categories
• How to install Modules from the Orchard Module Gallery

• What is Orchard CMS
• Technologies used
• Source or Web project
• Tool for Orchard CMS : WebMatrix or Visual Studio
• Recipes in Orchard
• Installing Orchard using IIS 8.1
• Support IIS Full Trust only
• Orchard CMS Folder Structure
• Themes and Modules

In the next section we will be talking about the Terminologies used within Orchard CMS

• Create pages,blogs,blog posts,
• Talk about Content Types, Parts, Field, Items
• Widgets,Layers,Queries,Projection,Taxonomies,Navigation, Media Library, Image Editor

Thank you!

How to install Orchard CMS Source Code Project with Visual Studio 2012