Version 1.0 of Orchard

The Orchard project recently released version 1.0 of their product. I had talked about it previously here, and I decided to install it again.

Installation

The installation is done via the Web Platform Installer and I also used Web Matrix on a virtual machine to do my tests. The installation is almost automatic and very pleasant. No need for obscure configuration.

Once installed, you just need to start the Orchard site with the Web Matrix interface to see the initial site configuration page (Site name, admin user, password, database). Again, it is very simple and intuitive.

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Orchard Project Beta

The 0.5 beta version of the Orchard project has just been released. Here are 4 points that I really like about this engine:

  1. ASP.Net MVC
  2. Allows multiple Wikis under the same site
  3. Management of static pages
  4. AND ABOVE ALL, the ability to translate posts and pages into different languages!! Which is quite rare in this field.

You can download the source code or simply install it with WebPI