Question

I’ve just started with the Orchard CMS and I can see that I can create a page and have different widgets on them, but I need the homepage to have a different layout.

I’d like to have some sort of different cshtml file for the homepage, but I can’t seem to work out how to do it from the documentation. I also need to have four text areas on the home page that aren’t on the main page.

Can someone who has done this point me in the right direction?

Answer 1

This may help you, it’s a post I found about making your own themes and is a fairly simple example but covers what you are looking for:

http://www.nogginbox.co.uk/blog/theming-orchard

/Views/Content-11.cshtml

I wanted to display the content on my
homepage slightly differently than
other pages. My homepage has an ID of
11 so I was able to reference it with
a file called Content-11.cshtml. I
could also have created a template for
all blog post content using a file
called Content-BlogPost.cshtml had I
needed to do so.