Orchard CMS tidbits

Update: Orchard is apparently reaching the end of its life by July 2017 judging on zero responses to issuses raised on either Github or Codeplex.  The best candidate to replace it is Umbraco.

Orchard for some including me is the best CMS - high performance, highly flexible, easy to maintain.

Regardless of whether one wants to contribute to the open source project, he should take the enlistment approach to  maintain the Orchard instance in use.  It makes upgrading effortless.

• Go to Views of the used theme to customize the overall look such as branding, etc.
• Orchard is an MVC project.  To use web form (i.e. aspx), add the following IMMEDIATELY after <clear/> in <handlers> of web.config:

              <add name="aspx" path="*.aspx" verb="*" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory"/>

               There is no need to do anything in Global.aspx

• If Search-Execute under Dashboard\Modules\Recipes is selected, all search results will disappear.  In this case,  one needs to rebuild indexes (Dashboard\Settings\Indexes).