A while back, it was exposed that if using the legacy form submission struts path (e.g. /sendEmail, /submitWebForm, etc), a spammer could remotely invoke the tool and use it to send spam emails to people. While this wasn’t exactly a bug in the strictest sense, it could prove to be a headache for users should [...]
This post will be dual purpose: first, to announce the release of the dotCMS IRC Client plugin, and second to provide a tutorial explaining how to launch a Velocity portlet plugin. Velocity portlets are a relatively simple way of building tools that can be built into the backend of dotCMS and be used as tabs [...]
Today, I am announcing the release of two new plugins for dotCMS, available now. The reason I am announcing them together is because the macro relies on the viewtool, but the viewtool has applications beyond the macro, so I didn’t feel that it was right to make it one big plugin. Also, the viewtool is [...]
The more applications I build in dotCMS, the more I find myself trying to accomplish them with just Velocity coding. This saves me from having to create a plugin and make sure it is maintained through my systems. However, lately I have needed to write a lot of Form Handling with dotCMS. Not your basic, [...]


