DotNetNuke vs Orchard

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DotNetNuke		Orchard
	Project
8	Mentions	1
992	Stars	2,366
0.4%	Growth	0.5%
9.5	Activity	7.5
14 days ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

DotNetNuke

Posts with mentions or reviews of DotNetNuke. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.

OpenContent Templates for Mandeeps Porto Theme
4 projects | dev.to | 9 Feb 2023

This blog post is cross-posted from the Official DNN Community website.
A variety of errors in C# code by the example of CMS DotNetNuke: 40 questions about the quality
2 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2021

At the same time, they have a community website where you can find information about some events.

2 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2021

To check the project, I used the source code from GitHub from the 22nd of October 2021. Take into account that we published / you read this article after a while. The code may be different by now.

Orchard

Posts with mentions or reviews of Orchard. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-26.

Microsoft New Orchard
2 projects | /r/dotnet | 26 May 2023

I work at Microsoft and am one of the Orchard maintainers (https://orchardproject.net). This feels so shady. Using Microsoft is the name? I won't even try to comment on it... Call it Orchard? That's bold ;)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing DotNetNuke and Orchard you can also consider the following projects:

Piranha CMS

BlogEngine.NET - Multi-User ASP.NET Blogging Application

Umbraco - The simple, flexible and friendly ASP.NET CMS used by more than 730.000 websites

Orchard Core - Orchard Core is an open-source modular and multi-tenant application framework built with ASP.NET Core, and a content management system (CMS) built on top of that framework.

BetterCMS - A publishing focused and developer friendly .NET Open Source CMS.

Open Classifieds - Yclas Self Hosted is a powerful script that can transform any domain into a fully customizable classifieds site within a few seconds.

Elanat - Elanat is ASP.NET Core CMS. Elanat is add-on oriented framework. The Elanat kernel is designed to create an add-on for it as easily as possible; the Elanat kernel contains a variety of add-ons; the structure of Elanat allows the programmer to create a new web system containing different types of add-ons.

mojoPortal - mojoPortal is an extensible, cross database, mobile friendly, web content management system (CMS) and web application framework written in C# ASP.NET.