Important Things to Do When Installing Orchard CMS for the First Time

Important things to do when installing Orchard CMS for the first time.

• Giving write permissions to the following folders(App_Data,Modules,Themes,Media) applicable for IIS/Web Hosts only and not for WebMatrix and IIS express.
• Installing Orchard with a pre-defined recipe or with a custom recipe (optional)
• Remove Home page title and text
• Configure your site settings properly
• Configure your cache settings properly
• Configure the email module with valid SMTP details (so that the reset password works when you forget your password)
• Configure Antispam modules
• Enable warmup module for performance boost(Orchard creates static versions of specified pages)
• Hide the meta published part if you want to hide the published dates for pages using placement.info file in your custom theme
• Check if the version you’re using is the latest version.
• Assigning administrator roles to the admin user
• Adding an email address for the admin user
• Enabling database and file system output cache(Optional/If required)
• Enabling Audit trail module to monitor backend activities on your website(optional)
• Remember to turn off unwanted modules
• Copy the settings.txt file and save it in a secure place (for future use/backup)
• Enabling import/export and creating a recipe of your website (for future use/backup)

New to Orchard CMS?

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

Orchard is delivered under the .NET Foundation http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/orchard. For more info on Orchard visit the official website http://www.orchardproject.net/ and for more Orchard CMS tutorials subscribe to Orchard Beginner YouTube channel.

Stay tuned.

Take care!

Abhishek Luv