Fixing some Orchard CMS blog problems

Blog archives part not working when blog is the site home page When you create a new blog in Orchard CMS and set it to be the home page blog archives list (part) refuses to display anything. Reason for this seems to be that Orchard database table called Orchard_Blogs_BlogArchivesPartRecord has a column called BlogSlug, and it defaults to “blog” even though blog is the home page (i.e. slug = “”). A clear bug, but I didn’t want to wait for a fix and just changed the value to null, and list of archived blog posts came to life. ...

August 4, 2011 · 2 min · Tero Teelahti