An orchard theme is a website with content, scripts, and styles; and views as .cshtml files. These are html with c# code embedded via the ASP NVC razor markup. I find these easy to change, but without running it, I also make mistakes, and one typo in the cde can prevent the whole site from running. So, running it in Visual Studio and debugging it is necessary. I did it like this:
Orchard is a full CMS not just a blog engine, but as a blog engine the 1.1 release is growing on me. It has come a long way since the betas, and proably has even further to go. But I can see it growing up to be like WordPress. I tried a few things out, and I'll be keeping it.
Orchard 1.1 looks pretty slick, but also pretty complex.
However the upgrade did not go smoothly at all - before upgrading the site I attempted to install the latest version of the BlogML module, with which to take a backup. The only effect was to totally break the site - yellow screen on any URL. So, a bit of recent data has been lost. This is painful, but I will see what I can recover.
This blog stopped working, some time around Friday 1 October 2010. I know that it worked on Thursday night, and that it was broken on Saturday. Orchard had gone wrong, and it was showing a yellow error page including a compilation error: The type or namespace name 'Comments' does not exist in the namespace 'Orchard' Continue reading...
I have upgraded my blog's platform to the August 2010 release of Orchard. I still have a little interest in Orchard, but any free time to actually hack on it is proving non-existent. Continue reading...
The About link on this site seems to be failing frequently with a 404 error. This is due to a known isue in Orchard. Hopefully it will be fixed in a release soon. Continue reading...
I have now installed the last release of the Orchard blog engine on my own domain. It's a start. Continue reading...
I have upgraded my blog to the Orchard August 2010 release. Exisiting posts will be restored soon. Thanks. Continue reading...