SunBlogNuke - DotNetNuke Blog Module

I am pleased to announce that SunBlogNuke 3.0.0 has been released.  SunBlogNuke 3.0.0 is a monthly stabilization release and includes a number of fixes aimed at improving the overall stability and flexibility of the platform. Over the last year we have been undergoing a lot of efforts behind the scenes in how we manage the DotNetNuke release process so that our releases are becoming more predictable and with greater emphasis on testing.  This particular release reflects those process improvements. As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.

Major Highlights

• Enhanced the thumbnail feature.
• Extended the featured widget module by adding random view mode and [ENTRY] token with which you do some more customizations, like showing random testimonial described in that post Showcase your testimonials with featured widget.
• Supported profile feature and you can show author’s profile in the bottom of every post as wordpress.
• Added the ability to specify the maximum number of related posts rendered in every post view mode.
• SEO optimization in category view
• Implemented separate archive feature with all the posts categorized by month.
• Enhanced Tag cloud module in the sidebar with supporting common and flash mode (known as "TagCumulus").
• Added the ability to customize post time with Formatting Date Time with suffix like 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
• Fixed issue where blog user table was related with the core user data and caused problems when deleting any portal with any blog instance.
• Fixed issue that "description can not be null." when trying to retrieve the Rss Feed.
• Supported the author avatar showed in the recent posts list and single post view, which is default demonstrated in the [RoyalYellow] theme.
• Cleaned up the database script and removed some unnecessary stored procedures.
• Updated the CookComputing.XmlRpc dll and fixed the conflict between modules, like Metapost module.
• Made it compatible with more old dnn version and now you can apply it DNN4.6.x and later version, including latest DNN v5.2..2.
• Other fixes and more customizations.

As with any release, we recommend you perform a complete file and database backup before performing any upgrade on a production website and that you first conduct a trial upgrade on a staging version of the site. Following these guidelines will ensure that you are able to recover should any unforeseen problems arise during the upgrade process.

You can get it here. Enjoy blogging and good writing! :)

The SunBlogNuke Team

Here I would like to share some simple steps to implement random testimonials with our featured widget of Ultimate DNN Blog Module - SunBlogNuke. Hopefully these will give you some ideas for use in your own dnn website when you are using our dnn blog module.

If you are a SunBlogNuke user, maybe you are missing some awesome and essential  features, like Featured Widget and Authors Widget. Now we would like to remind you the 2 core widget modules in SunBlogNuke you should know.

What is Featured Widget?

One utility module, enables DNN administrator to place this module on a web page and point to a specific blog. This is a good feature to highlight one of the featured blog on a landing page to direct website visitor to the blog. It allow you to display a list of posts, like featured post and latest posts. Also you can add this widget module to any page at any time and point it to any blog on the portal.

You can visit the previous post Enhance Featured Widget Module with More Customizations and learn how to extend what you want in your dnn website.

What is Authors Widget?

Another utility module, enables DNN administrator to place this module on the blog page and display a list of authors for the blog.

The Ultimate DNN Blog Module - SunBlogNuke is well known for its ease of installation. Under most circumstances installing SunBlogNuke for DotNetNuke CMS is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete. Recently our client Samuel Phung (Windows Embedded MVP) built embedded101.com with our premier blog module. In the mean time, he also contributed a detailed installation guide about SunBlogNuke for his customers, which I think it is awesome tutorial for you our clients. You can access it in the download page.

If you have more tricks and tips about SunBlogNuke, please share it here or contribute it to us. If necessary, you can get longer subscription for our module. :)

The future of SunBlogNuke looks bright and we have a lot of ideas we want to implement. As I promised in the last post, we will update the Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke Roadmap for new year 2010 so you can see the good stuff we are planning for.

Today we are glad to announce that we have completed the initial version of SunBlogNuke Guidelines, which includes the Ultimate DNN Blog Module::SunBlogNuke tutorial. If you are our clients or interested in what cool features SunBlogNuke have implemented, please get it from our download page. With it you should find everything you need to get up and running with SunBlogNuke as well as in depth information on the more advanced options. The documentation has been divided into sections to keep it easy to navigate and maintain, including installation, upgrade, configuration and other tutorials. Later we will continue to enhance it in more details.

Good luck and happy writing.

The SunBlogNuke team

Today we are very glad to announce that DNN Blog Module SunBlogNuke v2.6.3 is now available. This release includes various enhancements and some bug fixes. Please review the posts Enhance Featured Widget Module with More Customizations and How to Add Retweet Feature into Your DNN Blog, which talk about those extreme features.

Highlight in v2.6.3:

• support the thumbnail feature.
• enhance the assign role process.
• support the Comment Policy feature and fix some bugs in WLW.
• support the Ctrl+Enter shortcut way to submit comment.
• fix the special characters issue when on search.
• add header/footer for all posts.
• enhance workflow support, now the contributor can submit new post but required approved.
• enhance the featured widget module for more scenes, for example, the latest posts or top posts.
• other fixes and more customizations.

You can get it here.

Once you have set up your DNN website you can start creating your blog with our Ultimate Blog Module SunBlogNuke. The SunBlogNuke has many features you can customize to make your blog entries look better. In this tutorial, I am glad to show you how to customize SunBlogNuke with magic enhancement, which is more easy ways to fix your requirement at once. Okay, let us get started it. :)

Today I would like to share some tricks about integrating jQuery timeago plugin into DotNetNuke(DNN) and your blog, especially for the Ultimate blog module SunBlogNuke. With timeago plugin, you can customize the featured widget module with more fuzzy timestamps.

Here I would like to share how to fix the culture issue for DNN and our blog module [SunBlogNuke]. Hope it can helps someone who has the same issue. What is the Culture issue? When there is only one language in your DNN website, like the initial installation, the culture and language dropdown list may be blank. All right, let’s go ahead the topic.