Getting Started

• Installing Orchard
• Building your first Orchard site

Authoring Web Sites

• Getting around the admin panel
• Adding pages to your site
• Adding a blog to your site
• Blogging with LiveWriter
• Adding and managing media content
• Saving, scheduling and publishing drafts
• Using the rich-text editor
• Navigation and menus
• Organizing content with tags
• Creating global-ready applications
• Search and indexing
• Creating custom content types

Customizing Web Sites

• Previewing and applying a theme
• Installing themes
• Modifying an existing theme
• Adding widgets to your site
• Building a mobile version of a site

Managing Web Sites

• Enabling and disabling features
• Using the command-line interface
• Installing and upgrading modules
• Module gallery feeds
• Modifying site settings
• Moderating comments
• Managing users and roles
• Understanding permissions
• Managing version history
• Understanding updates
  Application updates, module updates, why do I need to do that?
• Optimizing for search engines (SEO)
• Analyzing the traffic on your site

Hosting and Deploying Web Sites

• Deploying Orchard from staging/development to production servers
• Configuring Orchard in shared hosting environments
• Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure
• Setting up a multi-tenant Orchard site
• Deploying with Visual Studio
• Deploying with Web Matrix

Extending Orchard

• How Orchard works
• Content types, parts, and fields
• Command-line scaffolding
• Creating a module with a simple text editor
• Creating a module in Visual Studio
• Writing a content part
• Writing a content field
• Packaging and sharing a module
• Understanding data access
• Understanding content handlers
• Understanding content drivers
• Writing data migrations
• Adding admin panel menu items
• Adding custom settings
• Adding-custom-permissions
• Exposing and handling events
• Creating content types in code
• Writing a command-line handler
• Localizing modules
• Writing a theme
• Packaging and sharing a theme

Developer Tools and Guidelines

• Developer FAQ
• Setting up a source enlistment
• Source code organization
• Dependencies and libraries
• Code conventions
• Continuous integration

Additional Topics

• Working with Orchard in WebMatrix
• Orchard dynamic compilation

Troubleshooting

• Common issues
• Filing bugs

Getting Involved

• Orchard community resources
• Contributing documentation *** Documentation style guidelines
• Contributing modules *** UI guidelines for module authors
• Contributing translations
• Contributing patches
• Getting involved in forums
• Contributing themes *** UI guidelines for theme authors