Now mobile devices are essential tool for our life & work, such as iPhone & iPad. So it will be excellent if you can blog on the go with those devices, sharing any ideas or photos from anywhere and keeping your loyal blog readers engaged from your interesting things - that means you work pretty much everywhere. Do you like this very comfortable way of living? Let us show you how to blogging dnn blog module - SunBlogNuke on iPhone/iPad with the awesome app – BloggerPlus.

In common, the iOS app 'BloggerPlus' is one of other 3rd party publish tools like Window Live Writer(WLW), required to configure your blog account firstly when building connect with your real dnn blog. BloggerPlus provides following Blog services at now. Our SunBlogNuke service supports standard remote blogging service, so you need refer to "DefaultBlogType" service option. Like the screenshot below:

When click to select option "DefaultBlogType", you will need to fill in the form like that:

Just follow the notes below:

• Name: Any name that describes your account
• URL: The URL of Your blog page in dnn site
• UserID: Your username of dnn site.
• Password: Your password of dnn site.
• blogID:  Here just let "blog" is used and it is optional.
• XMLRPC: it should be like that http://yourdomain.com/desktopmodules/sunblog/metaweblog.ashx. Replace 'yourdomain.com' with your real domain name.
• RSS: You can find the feed icon in the Meta widget module and click to get the rss link.

Actually there should be lots of blogging apps in App Store, for example iBlogger is alternative one.

Other valuable resources links:

BloggerPlus features tour: http://bloggerplus.xmpp.kr/

BloggerPlus  manual: http://bloggerplus.xmpp.kr/node/111

Disqus Comments System

Disqus is a comments platform that helps easily you build a networked community for your website. And Comments+ integrated with Disqus comment system seamlessly and included all the benefits from Disqus service - http://disqus.com/features/, such as Threaded comments, Blacklists and whitelists, Notification, Inline media embedding…. LOTs of features. Before going any further, you will need to register your website with Disqus. You will also need to create a user profile in order to login and administer this website. During registration, you will pick a shortname for your Comments+ module, which is how Disqus identifies your website community in the system. Then in order to active Disqus comments, just go through the simple process below:

1) Head over to Disqus.com to login with your account.

2) (Optional) Visit the Application section - http://disqus.com/api/applications/ and register your new application for calling APIs. It will be mentioned in detail later steps.

3) Login with host account of your dnn website and add a new CommentsPlus module into your destination page.

4) Enter the configure panel with the left-top action menu of current comments+ module.

5) Complete the settings with checking the option [Comment type] as "Disqus". Actually those options are so self-explained and easily configured. See the screenshots as follows and some notes below:

Note that:

• Application public Key: it is "Public Key" generated by the application in the steps 2) and just required when you will not use the "University way".
• Identifier key: It is part of the thread identifier key and will append to the "Identifier prefix" in the Disqus thread. In common letting it blank is all right. Meanwhile, it is more useful to integrate Comments+ with other 3rd party modules, for example, when integrating dnn core blog module you can fill in the query parameter "entryid" as the Identifier key, it will check out the query parameter in the load process. If not exist, the comment system will not show. So just visiting the post detail, the comments+ will work as expected.

6) Click "Update" to save the settings.

Congratulations. Now the Disqus comments system will work like a charm. :)

Facebook Comments System

To be completed. Please stay tune.

Key Features

What sets Comments+ apart from other DNN comments modules?

• Easy to install & set up.
• Integrated with Disqus comment system seamlessly so it included all the benefits from Disqus service - http://disqus.com/features/, such as Threaded comments, Blacklists and whitelists, Notification, Inline media embedding…. LOTs of features.
• Comments become more like live discussions with real-time posting and updating with offering a faster, more intuitive experience.
• Full integration with Facebook, Twitter, and more. Let people login, comment, and share using social services they already use and love.
• Provided universal way (a generic JavaScript snippet that can be implemented anywhere but the drawback is SEO missing) & API call with SEO-friendly.
• Multiple instances with unlimited pages/tabs.
• As the awesome widget module for Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke.
• Flexible option to integrated with any 3rd party module, like Html/Text module, NA (Ventrian News Articles) & DigArticle.
• Integrated with Active Social Journal seamlessly. (Just supported Disqus comments now)
• Alternative Facebook comments system.

Road map

1. Generic comment system for DotNetNuke platform
2. Sync comments in the background so that it will populate them in the local quickly
3. More & more

How it Action

Buzz with CommentsPlus Module

Buzz with Facebook Comments+

Buzz in Social DNN - dnnwave.com

With comments+, it has great potential to add a much higher level of interaction with your website visitors and yourself, as well as being able to aggregate all of your visitors activity in one spot, not to mention your own. One killing feature is that all comments is SEO-friendly and are able to be indexed by Search Engine quickly.

BTW, as you noticed, it was implemented as one widget module for our core product - Ultimate DNN Blog Module SunBlogNuke.  So if you are our clients of SunBlogNuke, including Professional license & Enterprise license, comments+ is free to access in the extension page of our website. If you are not now please feel free to join our community and will be surprised. :)

Updated:

Matt’s Review

I've used Comments+ with Disqus throughout autechheads.com, and it's fantastic - virtually seamless. I've switched off the comments provided with other modules because this does such a good job.

The SEO functionality is great, and the Active Social integration is a real winner. Unified comments throughout the site is great for a lot of reasons, and this one is definitely worth it. The implementation makes it easy to add comment counts using the Disqus javascript snippets.

I'm already a fan of SunBlogNuke and this is yet another great module that I'm thrilled with! :-)

Thanks a lot for Matt's review. If you are interested in this awesome module, please order it with the Snowcovered link - Ultra Comments+.

If you are focusing on our Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke, you should know that some release v4.x (the latest version is 4.2 until now) are available with LOTS of awesome features, such as threaded comment and custom fields. If you have missed those so cool things please visit our website for more details.  Today we would like to release a quick patch for fix issue where the Flashy Rotating 3D Tag Cloud Widget disappear and you should find the issue when you click to “View All Tag” from the TagCloud Widget. Please follow up some simple steps below:

1. Download the patch from here, unzip it in the local machine and you should find the fixed script file blog.common.js.
2. Find out the JavaScript folder - $YourRoot/DesktopModules/SunBlog/js.
3. Replace the original one with the patch file – blog.common.js.

Note that you need to backup the original one at first. Hope it makes sense.

Blog your way and enjoy life. :)

The SunBlogNuke Team

We are glad to tell you that our product is in active development and we are moving on as planned. Our guys are trying to enhance the Ultimate DNN Blog Module - SunBlogNuke and provide you the working and valuable product. In this stage we are focusing on the next building v4.0 in which we took more attentions on "Refactor". With refactor you will be able to extend more features easily. Plus, we make it stay flexible by reducing obstacles to changes so that you will respond to customers' requirements quickly. We hope that it will be the kind of beautiful, elegant and productive software.

BTW, also it will include some awesome features, like integration with Google reCAPTCHA, support for Vote Up/Vote Down and new theme configure process with providing thumbnail and preview feature. Please stay tune and it will be available to download. :).  Well. have a quick look at the screenshot about new theme configure panel:

And we are looking forwards to your feedback. We know that the more feedback we get from our clients, the better our product will be and also we will know which areas require attentions next. So please tell us what you want most or leave your comment below if you are interested in Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke. Thanks a lot.

Clear Administrative Panel

Integration with Windows Live Writer and so easy to manage your posts

Free and extreme SunBlogNuke themes directory

More will be available later. Please stay tune.

As mentioned previously on that post Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke Roadmap, we are trying to develop the import feature for SunBlogNuke. I have seen multiple posts around our forum asking if there were any migration tool away from the core blog module and well now there is! In this blog post I want to share a SQL script needed to successfully migrate all blog posts from the core blog to the SunBlogNuke module.

Disclaimer

As with all other postings regarding database modifications to DotNetNuke, I am not responsible for any errors that might occur by executing the below scripts on your site. I have tested and used the below scripts however due to the vast differences in DotNetNuke installations you must not only follow my instructions but also perform sanity checks on the datasets to ensure that your setup doesn't require modifications to this process.

What does it do?

Please note, that once your run this THERE IS NO TURNING BACK; BACKUP YOUR DATABASE, PRIOR to executing this script in order to avoid any data loss.

In order to provide you with a transparent view of what the script really does to your data, I will outline a step-by-step execution path that it takes to wipe the slate clean and begin the process of the transforming your blog to the new blogging platform – SunBlogNuke paradigm:

1. INSERTS any existing user INTO the BlogUsers for a given blog and assigns it as default BlogOwner.
2. INSERTS any existing Child Blogs INTO the CATEGORIES table (The Child Blog’s title becomes the title of the new category).
3. COPIES any existing POSTS into the ENTRIES table of new Blogging module.
4. REFERENCES any existing POSTS found under the child blogs TO the newly created CATEGORY.
5. COPIES any existing COMMENTS into the COMMENTS table of new Blogging module.

How to run the script:

Before you begin, locate the BlogId of the blog you want to upgrade and the BlogId of the destination blog:

1. At the top of the script, set the value of @SourceBlogID to the ID of your dnn core blog and the value of @DestinationBlogID to the ID of new SunBlogNuke blog.
2. Save this script on your local machine using a descriptive name for example "CoreBlogToSunBlogNuke_Convertion.sql”
3. Log into your site using your HOST account
4. Navigate to HOST > SQL
5. Choose the file you saved using the "Browse" button
6. Select "Run as script"
7. Execute the SQL

At this point, all entries of your blog on your portal are now completely converted to SunBlogNuke – and once again, there is NO GOING BACK, unless you want to restore your database, of course.

What’s next?

Simple: automate this process and make it as a built-in feature into SunBlogNuke.

We realize that this manual process is not ideal, but we simply did not get a chance to automate it yet; the bright side of it is that it forced me to write this detailed blog post which reveals exactly what goes on during the upgrade. We hope to include the automated process in our next Building round – oh yeah, we’re planning on more of those.

Finally, we need you to help us test also. Testing this scenario is extremely important to the success of this major release, and we want to ensure that we get it right the first time!

Conclusion and Parting Thoughts

The above information should allow you to migrate your blog data to the SunBlogNuke module via a fairly easy to follow scripting process. I would like to simply remind everyone again that you MUST sanity check these scripts and the data that they will be inserting PRIOR to actually inserting the records into your database. As with all data operations there are risks of damage to the database if you incorrectly insert/update data, therefore I fully recommend taking backup of your database prior to performing any updates.

Please provide any feedback regarding this process below and feel free to use the forums for script assistance if needed!

You may download a SQL file with the above scripts by clicking here.

The SunBlogNuke Team