/Etch.OrchardCore.News

Orchard Core module giving a good starting point for news.

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Etch.OrchardCore.News

Module for Orchard Core that provides a good starting place for editing & displaying news content.

Build Status

NuGet

Orchard Core Reference

This module is referencing a stable build of Orchard Core (1.8.3).

Installing

This module is available on NuGet. Add a reference to your Orchard Core web project via the NuGet package manager. Search for "Etch.OrchardCore.News", ensuring include prereleases is checked.

Alternatively you can download the source or clone the repository to your local machine. Add the project to your solution that contains an Orchard Core project and add a reference to Etch.OrchardCore.News.

Usage

Enabling the "News" feature will automatically set up a good starting place for managing news content.

Content Definitions

Creates a "News Post" content type. "News Post" is configured to have various fields that would commonly be found on a news article (e.g. Author, Tags, Related News) as well as using our block editor to curate the content for the article.

Tags

"News Post" contains a taxonomy field that is linked to a "Tags" taxonomy configured to use a "Tag" content type.

Example Content

This is not created by default, however a recipe for creating an example news post is available and can be run via the admin dashboard ("Settings" -> "Recipes").