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Transform the Old Blog into the New SunBlogNuke Website

Before our website for SunBlog(Nuke) launched, our team blog have been hosted by the link http://www.dnnsun.com/Community/sunblog.aspx. Right now we have completed the transformation process and it will be hosted by the official SunBlogNuke website.  So here you will find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more later.

Good luck and happy writing.

The SunBlog team

Basic Usage of the SunBlog Module

PS: updated tutorials can be found in the document page here - http://www.sunblognuke.com/support/docs.aspx.
 
The last posts had described the detail about installation and configuration process of the "SunBlog" module. Here we will continue to share more about the basic usage of SunBlog module. In order to let you understand more clearly and entirely, we will utilize the QA way. Before you go ahead your blog journey please make sure that the admin/host account had assigned the permission to you, in other word, you must be included in the "SunBlog Owner" role.

Q: How to manage my blog? And where is the manage entrance?

A: That is easy to find the blog manage entrance. As long as you login the website as your blog owner account, you will obviously find the manage link in your blog page. There exist 4 links with which you can enter the manage page for your blog management. If you can not find those links, maybe you have not been authorized as a standrad “SunBlog Owner” role successfully. Please contact the admin for more details.

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Q: How to create my first post?

A: Please refer to the new tutorial [Writing New Post] updated for compatible with latest version of SunBlogNuke.

If you click the "Admin Blog" link which mentioned in last demo picture, you will should enter the administrative panel and find some options for your management as follows:

NewAdminArea

To create your first post you should choose the [Add New Entry] link. Actually writing new post is so easy that there is not any tutorial here and you just know the actual meaning for the following options:

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Pinned Option : you can make your post pinned in the post list and let the reader clearly know it important. When the post is about the instruction or any other similar, this option is useful.

Display in HomePage: Sometime you maybe want this post excluded in the Home Page of your blog.

Full Show in Entrylist: If you want to let the post fully show in the entries list as the classic blog view, you can check the option.

EntryName: Maybe you are guessing that it is the post title alias, yes, you are right. That is alternative post title for SEO consideration. For example, you want to make the original title("How to install and configure SunBlog Module?") more concise("install and configure SunBlog").

Q: How to manage my posts?

A: Please refer to the new tutorial [Manage Posts] updated for compatible with latest version of SunBlogNuke.

New Admin Area for SunBlogNuke

Thus far, SunBlogNuke has relied on the built-in support to allow Live Writer to manage posts.  This has worked out great so far and allowed us to focus on other area's of the system.  However, a CMS/Blog Engine isn't complete until it has a built-in, easily accessible administration area.

You can expect SunBlogNuke’s administration area to be heavily influenced from the core Forum module.  They've done such a great job on their administration that we are borrowing their best ideas. The screenshot show below:

New Admin Area for SunBlogNuke

Announcing SunBlog 2.4.6 Release Candidate

We are very happy to make available a release candidate for SunBlog 2.4.6 today. SunBlog 2.4.6 includes various performance improvements, bug fixes and much more as well.

New in v2.4.6:
  • remove the AjaxControlToolkit dll to fix a lot of issues and get more compatibility.
  • enhance permission management, making it as more workflow.
  • add new authors widget module.
  • fix the notification bugs.
  • add new option [Allow registered users to change their details].
  • enhance the layout of post-edit and tag-edit panel.
  • remove the copyright filed.
  • support customization for the default post settings.
  • enhance the retrieve users process with the autocomplete way when assign contributor.
  • add the default category feature.
  • more customizations

You can get it here.

How to write your post of SunBlog with Window Live Writer?

Updated: This post was out of date and please refer to the new tutorial here - Integrated with Window Live Writer.

In the last two posts, we had described how to install, configure and use the "SunBlog" module in DotNetNuke(DNN) platform. Here we will continue to tell you how to write your post of "SunBlog" with Window Live Writer(WLW). You know, the Window Live Writer is so great for post management of web blog that "SunBlog" had supported this killer feature natively. And another reason is that editing a long blog post in the FCK editor is painful.  Anyone who has ever lost a blog post because of a login timeout knows just how painful it truly can be. I spend an hour or more writing my blog posts and to have it just disappear is enough to make you cry. Ok, if you haven't yet set up your WLW to post to your blog, now let us go ahead. It's really easy. Here's the simple steps below:

  1. Start WLW, and progress through the first couple of steps, indicating you already have a blog, and that it's with 'Another Blog Service'.
  2. Enter your blog URL and user account which related with your blog.
  3. Select "MetaWeblog API" as the type of weblog.
  4. Enter your Blog Posting Url: this is pretty easy to get. The default Url for SunBlog Should be "http://www.yourdomain.com/MetaWeblog.ashx" (Replaced with "http://www.yourdomain.com/DesktopModules/SunBlog/MetaWeblog.ashx" in v2.3.6 or "http://www.yourdomain.com/MetaWeblog.aspx" in latest version). Please make sure that you replace the "yourdomain.com" with your actual website domain.

After doing this, you should be good to blog!

Good luck blogging!

The ultimate content workflow platform :: SunBlogNuke

SunBlog logoSince the version 2.4.x, we have enhance SunBlog greatly and try to make it as a ultimate content workflow platform. So we have updated the new installation guide for the new SunBlog. It will be easier and quicker for your life.

[Kudos] Fantastic module resolving all the issues I had with the standard DNN blog

SunBlog is a fantastic module, resolving all the issues I had with the standard DNN blog. It is feature rich and has a fast, friendly administration interface. I wish more DNN modules were built to this standard. The author was also very quick to provide answers to the few questions I had.

Andrew Bartle(http://www.brooklynit.co.nz)

Welcome to SunBlog Platform

If you see this entry it means that SunBlogNuke is running well and the settings are configured correctly.

Setup

1) Basic usage of the SunBlog module
2) How to write your post of SunBlog with Window Live Writer?

Assign Contributors

The SunBlogNuke supports multiple authors for the same blog, so if you are a blog owner, you can assign contributors permission to any existing user which will can manage the blog with you together. The contributors will own the related permissions, i.e post entry, create category etc.

On the web

You can find SunBlogNuke on the official website. Here you will find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more.

Good luck and happy writing.

The SunBlogNuke team

[Kudos] Excellent support, easy to configure and setup

This product is excellent for the following reasons.

  1. Support was very fast, answered my questions in about 1hr.
  2. The product was easy to configure and setup.
  3. I use windows live writter and setup was easy.
  4. Finally a blog engine that looks professional with web 2.0 features.

We love it!!!

Michael

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