SunBlogNuke - DotNetNuke Blog Module

Refer to the last tutorial about how to implement a customized calendar date in the Content Slider Widget of Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke v3.6.x or later version, today we continue to share a more awesome code sample for you and it indeed works well in our home page. As you go ahead do some customizations basing on SunBlogNuke, like the must-have widget module – Content Slider Widget, you will understand what the cool extendibility and flexibility our blogging modules supply for your dnn website. Firstly take a look at the screenshot below:

Active Social and SunBlogNuke can play very nicely together, thanks to some good design choices in Active Social, and the extensive skinning capabilities of SunBlogNuke. It's possible to use Active Social avatars within the SunBlogNuke comments and author images, starting from v3.6.1 of SunBlogNuke. I have done this successfully with Active Social 1.6 and 1.7. Today this tutorial will cover how to integrate Active Social avatars with SunBlogNuke and show you how easy and simple it is.

Today we are glad that the monthly release v3.6.1 for Ultimate DotNetNuke blog module – SunBlogNuke is available for download. In this building we full supported for dnn core token replace functionality and provided two new optional awesome widget - category widget and tagcloud widget, which you can add into any page at any time and point it to any blog on the portal. Later we will provide more tutorials here to cover the usage and customizations for flexible and extensible token mechanism. As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.

Major Highlights in v3.6.1:

• Supported two new category widget & tagcloud widget, which you can add into any page at any time and point it to any blog on the portal.
• Full support for dnn core token replace functionality.
• Enhanced content slider widget with supporting category and tag tokens.
• Supported slug for category and enhanced FormatSEOFriendlyURL method .
• Added tag mouseover/hover color option to control tagcumulus flash.
• Fixed issue where critical error something not set to an instance of the object after upgrade.
• Other small fixes & 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

As this awesome post covered, you can turn turn DNN Announcements Module into a jQuery Slider easily with some customized steps. Now I would like to show you that we also can integrated Content Slider Widget (the core widget of Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke) with a jQuery carousel seamlessly and easily make it run well as you expected. Let us go through how to build it with blog posts.

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.

Here I will share you how to integrate twitter with DNN website or DNN blog module, like our SunBlogNuke module. It will help bridge the gap between blog posts and IM. It's also a great way to keep people informed quickly and easily.

With SunBlogNuke v2.4.9, we had enhanced the featured widget(called "Content Slider Widget" in the latest package, too) module for more scenes, like the latest posts or top posts. This is a really nice way to help internal linking in your site and a great way to make sure that your older, but more popular posts continue to receive plenty of internal link love to keep them ranking in the search engines. In the mean time, it supports more customizations.

 

By the enhanced widget module, you will can include a "Recent Posts section" in your sidebar or your landing home page. That provides an at-a-glance index for your latest posts. Especially if you write long posts, the recent posts section allows readers to see what you’ve been up to without scrolling down a lengthy page.

Also you can include Top Viewed Posts section. You know that once your classic posts leave the home page, they’re often buried in your site. Like displaying trophies on a mantle, showcasing your classic posts allows more readers to find and enjoy them. Together with the core related post feature, your readers will get the more information from your blog and doing so can increase the page views per reader.

It’s now very easy to do this yourself. Here’s how to apply it:

1) Add the "Featured Entries Widget"(called "Content Slider Widget" in the latest package, too) module in the sidebar of your blog.

2) The module will show the default settings with your recent posts but you have more controls to customize your layout and view mode. Please select the "Render Settings" from the left top menu to enter the widget settings panel. The options are pretty clear – here’s the screenshots as follows:

3) Just configure your customized settings and click "update" to apply it. That’s all. :)

Good luck and happy writing.

The SunBlogNuke team

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.