I recently found a question on Orchard's forums asking for some explanations to query data directly from the database. Here is my take on this.

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Your customer wants to boost their search engine results, so they ask you to add social media meta tags, for facebook, twitter and others.

Introduction

One of the most frequent usages of the workflows module in Orchard will probably be to send an email notification whenever a contact form is submitted. This tutorial will teach you how to create such a custom form, intercept when it is submitted by a user, and finally how to send a custom email based on the contents of the form.

Background

On April 30, 2013 we released a security update for a discovered non-persistent XSS vulnerability targeting all versions of Orchard. For more information on this kind of vulnerability please read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting.

The Windows Azure Web Sites hosting solution is really a fantastic hosting solution. You might already know that you can even push web sites using Git, but lately this feature has been improved so that it can automatically pull an external repo you already own.

Today Orchard can be used with two different databases, i.e. Sql Ce and Sql Server (including Sql Express), which provides enough options not only for simple websites but also enterprise level ones requiring better reliability and performance. In the upcoming release Orchard will also support MySql.

It can be hard to keep up with what's happening around Orchard. Here is a set of resources that you might find interesting either you are a discovering Orchard or you are a pro.