Contents tagged with themes
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Did you know that themes can have dependencies too?
Of course themes can depend on another theme, by having the other theme specified in the BaseTheme directive in the Theme.txt file. What's more however, that themes can also have dependencies on modules: just use the Dependencies parameter like with modules in the Module.txt.
Dependencies: Orchard.jQueryNot too complicated, right? Still it's something not obvious. Actually since jQuery is an always-on core module you don't need this, but if you have any other JS library in a module that you use in your theme you have to declare the dependency. You get the idea :-).
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How to start with Orchard development?
This is maybe the first question everybody starting with Orchard development asks. I.e. what should I do to have a Visual Studio solution that I can run and play with and use to start writing an Orchard module or theme? Here are the first steps.