Orchard Project
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Orchard 1.4 Dashboard | |
| Initial release | January 2011 |
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| Stable release | 1.8.1 / July 1, 2014[1] |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | ASP.NET ASP.NET MVC |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Content management framework, Content management system, Community and Blog software |
| License | New BSD License |
| Website |
orchardproject |
Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused content management system written in ASP.NET platform using the ASP.NET MVC framework. Its vision is to create shared components for building ASP.NET applications and extensions, and specific applications that leverage these components to meet the needs of end-users, scripters, and developers.
Orchard is delivered as part of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery under the OuterCurve Foundation. It is licensed under a New BSD license, which is approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The predecessor of Orchard was Microsoft Oxite.
Project status
Orchard is currently in active community-driven development. The project includes an extensibility model for both modules and themes, a dynamic content type system, ease of customization, localization and more.
Although most of the primary developers work for Microsoft, it is not an officially supported Microsoft product, and instead falls upon the auspices of the OuterCurve Foundation.
The project is mainly managed by the Orchard Steering Committee and contributors who were proposed and elected by the community.
References
Orchard CMS Meetups & User Groups
External links
- Official website
- Orchard Themes and Modules Gallery
- Orchard: Microsoft's open-source CMS platform is (re)born
- Why You Should Pay Attention to the Development of Orchard CMS
- Microsoft delivers version 1.0 of its open-source CMS platform