Back in 2021, we wrote about helping the City of Santa Monica move santamonica.gov from Orchard 1 to Orchard Core. Since then, we have continued working with the City's team. In the last couple of years, much of that work has been maintenance: upgrading Orchard Core, improving tests, making local …
DotNest is Lombiq’s managed Orchard Core hosting platform where users can create and run Orchard Core sites without handling infrastructure, updates, or maintenance themselves. We recently rebuilt the site to give DotNest a clearer presentation and a more modern user experience. By looking behind …
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 …
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 …
“Our CMS is not just a web-publishing platform — it’s evolved to become our collection manager.” Smithsonian Folkways runs a 75,000-track archive on Orchard Core. Director of Technology Toby Dodds shares how they moved from Orchard 1.x to Core, and turned their CMS into a mission-critical platform.
For Flamingo Marine's new site, we built a lightweight but design-driven Orchard Core solution with flexible content editing and custom widgets. From an animated hero section to a synced dual-slider carousel, the project showcased how Orchard Core can drive clean, modern websites that are easy to …
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 …
We 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.
Governments 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 …
With a strong background in migrating websites to Orchard Core, we embarked on a journey to revamp hastlayer.com, the home of our cutting-edge .NET hardware acceleration project Hastlayer. This transformation was not merely a migration from the older Orchard 1 CMS; it was an opportunity to embrace …