Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform. You are looking at Orchard 1, the older, .NET Framework-based version that has been in development since 2009.
If you're starting a new project (or maintaining a project built on Orchard 1), you should check out Orchard Core, the new generation of Orchard built on ASP.NET Core. You can also try it for free on DotNest.com!
Join the community discussion on Discord, where we also have a channel dedicated to Orchard 1.
Please visit our website at https://orchardcore.net for the most current information about this project.
Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.
Orchard is built on a modern architecture that puts extensibility up-front, as its number one concern. All components in Orchard can be replaced or extended. Content is built from easily composable building blocks. Modules extend the system in a very decoupled fashion, where a commenting module for example can as easily apply to pages, blog posts, photos or products. A rich UI composition system completes the picture and ensures that you can get the exact presentation that you need for your content.
Orchard is delivered under the .NET Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the OSI.
Our mission is to empower our users and foster a dedicated and diverse community that builds the CMS that we all want to use.
Orchard is currently in version 1.10.3: It contains bugfixes and the more impactful changes and new features added in the latest major version (1.10).
We invite participation by the developer community in shaping the project's direction, so that we can publicly validate our designs and development approach. All our releases are available on our Releases page, and we encourage interested developers to check out the source code on the Orchard GitHub site and get involved with the project.
We hope that by engaging with the community we will continue to shape Orchard into a valuable set of tools and applications. The Orchard team is committed to open community participation and accepts code contributions. We encourage community participation at all levels from general project feedback to bug fixes and patches.
There are many ways you can contribute to Orchard:
