Following 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.

Flamingo 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.

How 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.

The 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.

Avastec, 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.

Since 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.

Orchard 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.