SunBlogNuke - DotNetNuke Blog Module

From Ultimate DNN Module – SunBlogNuke v4.6, it introduced the superior feature that any commented post in your blog also asynchronously published into the Journal of the Active Social module. Now we will show you how to active this hidden featured. Please follow up the instructions below: Download the "ActiveSocial" package from extension directory. Unzip it into your local machine. There you should find out 2 files - SunBlogNuke.Extensions.ActiveSocial.dll & Settings.xml. Open up the Settings.xml with any html editor. Config node 'Key' with the Access Key, which you get from Active Social module, plus specify the node [SummaryLimit] with number (which controls the summary length to show in the journal ) and make sure [Active] = true. Upload the SunBlogNuke.Extensions.ActiveSocial.dll into the bin folder of your dnn website. Then upload another configuration files Settings.xml into the folder $ROOT/DesktopModules/SunBlog/Extensions/ActiveSocial/. Note that if folder not existed, ...

In our previous posts on Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke hacks, we discussed the incredible flexibility of  SunBlogNuke, which is one of the biggest reasons for its popularity among bloggers worldwide. In particular, from v4.0 we introduced the custom fields feature, which let users create variables and add custom values to them, are  one of the reasons for SunBlogNuke’ flexibility and endless possibilities. In this tutorial, we will compile a list of useful things that you can do with custom fields in SunBlogNuke (if you are not heard of custom fields feature please refer to the initial guideline firstly - Extend DNN Blog With Custom Fields). Among them are re-defining the <title> tag of every post and linking to external resources instead of the blog post. More will be included later. Please stay tune. :) 1. Re-Define The <title> Tag The problem. On blogs, as on every other type of website, content is king. And SEO is very important for achieving your goals with traffic. By d ...

To build friendly post url for SEO, please follow up some simple steps: 1) Enable 'Use Friendly Url' option in the Host Settings. 2) Fill the field slug when you are creating a new post. You can make it automatically by checking the option 'Auto-Generate Friendly Url' in the writing settings of your blog. 3) Until now, you will get some similar url like that: http://yourdomain.com/blog/tabid/xx/entryid/11/sample-post-title.aspx.  But you may want to remove the tabid part (tabid/xx/) and let it more clear and more SEO. Well, let’s go ahead the step 4). 4) Download the free iFinity Friendly Url Provider. There is also a professional license with more features but the free version is enough for us. 5) Install it in your dnn website. 6) Open up your web.config, find the element <friendlyUrl> and append iFinity.FriendlyUrl like this: <friendlyUrl defaultProvider="iFinity.FriendlyUrl"> <providers> <clear /> <add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type=" ...

As more and more clients request to moving their WordPress blog to our Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke, we finally implement it as the core built-in feature. Now you can import your WP data with BlogML format.