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Overview about Ultimate DNN Blog Module - SunBlogNuke.

About

Ultimate DotNetNuke Blog Module::SunBlogNuke

SunBlogNuke is the ultimate publishing tool for DotNetNuke (DNN) websites, with a focus on simplicity, ease of extensibility, web standards and usability. It includes a great suite of modules for blogging on your DNN site.

SunBlogNuke was born out of our own desire for a better blogging platform. Our modules will have your blog up and running in a snap with loads of interactive features.

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Key Features

What sets SunBlogNuke apart from every other DNN "blog" modules out there?

  • Full standards compliance

    All the controls in SunBlogNuke are 100% XHTML 1.0 compliant. This is important not only for interoperability with today's browser but also for forward compatibility with the tools of the next generation.

  • Cool themes

    Comes with a full theme system which makes designing everything from the simplest blog to the most complicated website a piece of cake. If you want to modify or create a new theme you can do so easily with just a basic understanding of HTML and CSS.

  • Web 2.0

    Features social bookmarks, Ajax, gravatars, email notification, tag cloud and other web 2.0 features.

  • Flexible

    Built from the ground up using nothing but DotNetNuke (DNN), SunBlogNuke was designed with simplicity in mind. This means that you can write new extended modules and themes by using the skills you already have as a .NET developer.

  • Universal

    Ships with support for multi languages. It's easy to configure your blog for communicating with visitors in their own language.

  • Customizable

    Heaps of options make it highly configurable. If you don't like the way something works, you can change it without digging through the code.

  • XML-RPC interface

    Supports an extended version of the Blogger API & MetaWeblog API. You can use easily to manage your posts with client programs like Windows Live Writer (WLW).

  • Multi-author support

    Supports multiple authors to write posts on the same blog. Visitors can subscribe to the individual author's RSS feed or view only the posts from their favourite author.

FAQs

Here is a list of the most frequently asked questions about Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke. What is SunBlogNuke? SunBlogNuke is the enhanced and ultimate publishing tool on the DotNetNuke(DNN) platform with a focus on simplicity, ease of extendibility, web standards and usability, which includes a highly extreme suite of modules for blogging on your DNN site. SunBlogNuke was born out of desire for a better blog platform so it'll have your website up in a snap with interactive features. More awesome features... I currently have Version 2.3.25. How do I upgrade to 2.4.1? Will my existing blog be safe? Please look in the download page for the version you purchased for a free upgrade! You will get the latest version there. Then just need to directly install it again and do not have to uninstall it at first, so it is safe for your previous posts and data. Is SunBlogNuke compatible with .NET framework 2.0? Yes, it is compatible with .NET framework 2.0 and below IIS 7.x. Update: it required .NET framework 3 ...

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Screenshots

LOTS of screenshot below:

 

More will be available later. Please stay tune.

Road Map

This document describes the goals for future versions of "SunBlogNuke" as well as a plan for achieving them. The goals for this roadmap are the following: Communicate to end users what features are planned for future releases Elicit feedback from users about upcoming releases Provides a prioritization of features This document is a work in progress and is constantly changing. Feedback is welcome. If you want to see information about past releases, check out the release notes. Version 5.x (2012) Workflow enhancement, including awesome version and rollback features. Extended options for WLW. Email to Weblog - Allow users to post to blog via email. Extensions/widgets management. Multiple-languages- content for each post. Version 4.x (2011) Ping and trackback enhancement. (Done in v4.8) Email subscription with newsletter. (Done in v4.7 with a new subscription widget module) Comment enhancement, including integrate comment with OpenId, building rules and f ...

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Release History

SunBlogNuke v5.2.0 Release Notes – May 1th, 2012: ENH - Added OpenGraph & Canonical into core extensions. ENH - Added 'tweet' button in the edit post panel so that you can update the post status in your twitter easily. ENH - Included LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest into social bookmark widget. ENH - Supported post thumbnail with options, such as resizedwidth & thumbnailsize. ENH - Implemented 'post thumbnail' as feed Enclosure element ENH - Integrated with GalleryPlus module. ENH - Resized profile/comment avatar with better quality. ENH - Provided a workaround for avatar failure issue with host accounts. Lots of small fixes. SunBlogNuke v5.1.0 Release Notes – March 15th, 2012: ENH - Supported tab title with culture code of multilingual sites in the blog manage panel. ENH - Rewrite feed generator and supported more elements, such as enclosure, 'content:encoded' & webmaster etc. ENH - Publish date section in the edit post panel & NavZone with act ...

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