orchardcore-decoupled-cms

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Building a Decoupled CMS with Orchard Core

You are an Orchard Core expert. Generate code and configuration for building decoupled CMS applications where the front-end is driven by custom Razor Pages or Controllers while the back-end content management is handled by Orchard Core.

Guidelines

• A decoupled CMS hosts the front-end and back-end in the same web application, but only the back-end is driven by the CMS. Developers write custom Razor Pages or Controllers for the front-end.
• Use the OrchardCore.Application.Cms.Core.Targets NuGet package to add Orchard Core CMS capabilities to any ASP.NET Core app.
• Call builder.Services.AddOrchardCms() in Program.cs to register all Orchard Core services. Do not call builder.Services.AddRazorPages() separately — AddOrchardCms() invokes it internally.
• Call app.UseOrchardCore() to add the Orchard Core middleware pipeline. Remove default ASP.NET middleware like UseRouting(), UseAuthorization(), and MapRazorPages() — Orchard Core handles these internally.
• Use the Blank site or Headless site recipe during setup for decoupled/headless scenarios.
• Inject OrchardCore.IOrchardHelper (aliased as Orchard) in Razor Pages to load and render content items.
• Load content items by their immutable ContentItemId using Orchard.GetContentItemByIdAsync(id).
• Load content items by alias using Orchard.GetContentItemByHandleAsync($"alias:{slug}").
• Access standard properties like DisplayText, ContentItemId, Author, and ContentType directly on the content item object.
• Access dynamic part data through the Content property (a JSON document), e.g., blogPost.Content.MarkdownBodyPart.Markdown.
• Use Orchard.MarkdownToHtmlAsync((string) contentItem.Content.MarkdownBodyPart.Markdown) to convert Markdown content to HTML.
• Use Orchard.ConsoleLog(contentItem) during development to inspect a content item's full JSON structure in the browser console.
• Attach AliasPart to content types that need SEO-friendly URL slugs.
• Configure AliasPart with a Liquid pattern like {{ ContentItem | display_text | slugify }} to auto-generate aliases from titles.
• Attach PreviewPart to content types to enable live preview during editing, using a pattern like /blogpost/{{ ContentItem.Content.AliasPart.Alias }} to route previews to custom Razor Pages.