Blog Posts
-
Municipal government permit management run on Orchard Core - GovTech company case study
4/30/2026 8:20:31 PMGovernments use Orchard Core too! Even in this blog, we've seen how Lombiq worked with the municipal government of Santa Monica and with the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, which is an agency of the US federal government. But did you know that apart from flashy websites, Orchard can also provide important services for citizens behind the scenes? The multi-tenant case management platform of a GovTech company we worked with does exactly that: If you live in a US city, you may have dealt with your permit or other license via the platform! And as you may have guessed, we're working with the company as Orchard Core experts.
-
Migrating Orchard Dojo to Orchard Core
4/30/2026 8:20:08 PMWe migrated yet another Lombiq site from Orchard 1 to Orchard Core: Our Orchard learning website Orchard Dojo now runs on the latest version of Orchard. For a case study on how we completed this migration project, check out the case study on Orchard Dojo.
-
Migrating the homepage of the Orchard Core SaaS DotNest to Orchard Core
4/30/2026 8:19:59 PMFollowing the migration of lombiq.com, Git-hg Mirror, Hastlayer, and Orchard Dojo from Orchard 1 to Orchard Core (and also the redesign of lombiq.com and Orchard Dojo), we had only one site remaining that was still running on Orchard 1: DotNest.com. While you could create Orchard Core sites on DotNest for years, until now, the DotNest website itself still ran on Orchard 1.
-
The European Accessibility Act came into effect today. Should you care?
4/30/2026 8:19:13 PM -
Rebuilding Flamingo Marine’s Website with Orchard Core CMS
4/30/2026 8:18:50 PMFlamingo Marine is a startup that designs and builds modern electric boats. They needed a new website that was both easy to update and flexible in layout. To make that happen, they chose Orchard Core as the CMS and brought us in to build a modular, widget-based solution.
-
From CMS to Collection Manager: An Interview with Toby Dodds on Orchard Core at Smithsonian Folkways
4/30/2026 8:18:31 PMHow do you manage a musical archive with 75,000+ tracks, complex metadata, and a mission to keep every recording available forever? For Smithsonian Folkways, the answer began over a decade ago with Orchard 1.x, and today runs on a fully customized Orchard Core platform.
-
Helping out the builders of Ontario - RESCON case study
4/30/2026 8:18:24 PMThe Residential Construction Council of Ontario (RESCON) represents professionals in Ontario’s residential building industry and leads initiatives to foster innovation across the sector. Their public website runs on Orchard Core: it's a headless Orchard Core backend powering a separate Vue-based frontend application. But an issue had started to undermine one of the site’s most important functions: publishing up-to-date content.
-
Event management backend for one of the largest retailers
4/30/2026 8:18:14 PMAvastec, a UK company, approached us to continue the development of their existing Orchard Core-based headless backend utilized by the event management site of one of the world's largest retailers. It was already in use with a publicly accessible Node.js-based frontend. The end client urgently wanted some new features, with follow-up tasks to optimize the system's performance, and keep the app up-to-date while maintaining the integrity of the user interface.
-
Bringing Orchard Core into the classroom at Óbuda University
4/30/2026 8:17:49 PMSince 2013, we’ve been working with Óbuda University on a hands-on way to teach web development. What began as a course built around Orchard CMS later evolved into an Orchard Core-based subject, giving students a chance to learn by building something that could actually work in the real world, not just completing classroom exercises.
-
AI Chat Admin Widget and Frontend Widget, DotNest has a new look - This week in Orchard (24/04/2026)
4/24/2026 10:25:28 AMOrchard Core updatesWarn against unsafe Liquid output in SQL queriesA SQL query is actually a Liquid template. This allows your queries to be shaped based on the parameters it gets. But you could srew up with SQL and Liquid if you start by injecting Liquid in a value, as you can see below. Because in that case, you can inject any SQL and expose all your databases. So, do not inject user-provided values directly with Liquid output expressions, as this can lead to SQL injection.
Scraped Orchard blogs
Send us new blog feeds
Noticed that a blog's feed is missing from the list?
We would love to add that to the feed list, so please don't hesitate to inform us on the following e-mail adress:
See our privacy policy.