dotcms-best-practices
Reference for doing any single thing in dotCMS correctly — create a content type, page, template or container; place content; author VTL; wire a headless Next.js frontend; or debug a page that renders blank. Indexed by intent, so you load one file for the task at hand. Use whenever working with dotCMS content types, fields, pages, templates, containers, content placement, VTL/Velocity, the Universal Visual Editor, or a headless dotCMS frontend — and especially when a page renders empty, a slot shows "no component", or a change doesn't appear in LIVE.
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- skills/dotcms-best-practices/SKILL.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/README.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/00-what-must-exist.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/01-site.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/02-content-types.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/03-content.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/04-pages.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/05-templates.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/06-containers.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/core/09-placement.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/nextjs/00-connect.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/nextjs/01-component-contract.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/nextjs/02-next-config.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/nextjs/03-routing.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/nextjs/04-listings-and-details.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/nextjs/05-verify.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/vtl/00-wiring.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/vtl/01-choose-mechanism.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/vtl/02-themes.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/vtl/03-containers.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/vtl/04-listings-and-details.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/vtl/05-verify-and-debug.md
- skills/dotcms-best-practices/reference/vtl/velocity.md
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