ASP.NET MVC 4 AllowAnonymous Attribute and Authorize Attribute
Orchard Themes and HTML Helper for Accessing Current Orchard Theme Folder
As an Orchard Developer there are times you need to access an asset within the current Orchard Theme Folder from a view. Since the current Orchard Theme can be easily changed by the Orchard Administrator on the fly, you obviously can't hardcode a path. You need some way of programmatically determining the path to the current Orchard Theme. As with most things in Orchard, there is an HTML Helper for that.
The Journalist Orchard Theme in Orchard 1.4
In addition to the Orchard 1.4 features found in What's New in Orchard 1.4 as part of my Orchard Tutorials, there are also a lot of little changes in Orchard 1.4. For those Orchard Web Developers who have been developing Orchard Websites, Modules, and Themes for awhile, you are very familiar with the default Orchard Theme, The Theme Machine, which has been in Orchard CMS since day one. Well, with the release of Orchard 1.4 another Orchard Theme has snuck into the default installation of Orchard - The Journalist.
Customizing Orchard Themes using Shape Tracing and Url Alternates in Designer Tools
If you started developing Orchard Websites and custom Orchard Themes when Orchard 1.1 was released, consider yourself lucky! The new Designer Tools, like Shape Tracing and URL Alternates, that were released with Orchard 1.1 are an incredible leap forward in creating Orchard Themes. Shape Tracing is absolutely amazing and gets all the love, but let's not forget about the incredible usefulness of URL Alternates when it comes to overriding how things are displayed based on URL!
Shape Tracing in Orchard Designer Tools for Creating Orchard Themes
Bertrand Le Roy presented at LIDNUG yesterday on Orchard CMS. I was pretty amazed at the depth of the presentation. He was not only demoing Orchard features that we won't see until Orchard CMS 1.1 is released around MIX11, but he was literally walking developers through the dynamic nature of Clay and its usefulness in Orchard Themes as well as development of Orchard Modules. That is a pretty tall order to comprehend for developers who are not actively engaged in the Orchard CMS project, but it does give them the nitty gritty details of what it means to be an Orchard Web Developer.
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