Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused Content Management System built on the ASP.NET MVC platform.

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.

There are many ways you can contribute to Orchard: you can fix bugs, contribute modules and themes to our gallery, write documentation, translate Orchard, or answer questions on our forums and on Stack Overflow.

Orchard is currently in version 1.9. We invite participation by the developer community in shaping the project’s direction, so that we can publicly validate our designs and development approach. Our 1.9 release is available from our Downloads page, and is easy to Install Orchard using the Web Platform Installer. We encourage interested developers to check out the source code on the Orchard Github site and get involved with the project.

• Download the latest release
• Feature roadmap
• Docs and designs/specs
• About us
• Contact us

We hope that by engaging with the community in the very early stages of the project that we will be able to shape Orchard into a valuable set of tools and applications for the community. The Orchard team is committed to open community participation and accepts code contributions today. We encourage community participation at all levels from general project feedback to bug fixes and patches.

• Check out the code
• Check out the docs
• Find and file a bug
• Propose a feature idea
• Ask and answer questions
• Participate in forum discussions
• Submit a patch
• Send us feedback