As some of you suggested, we added showcase component to our project site (see front page) where we will promote websites built with BlogEngine.NET and showing best of creative and inspiring designs. If you own or know about any good candidates, please contact us and we will add this site to showcase. As list grows, we will rotate 10 randomly selected sites so that all will get equal exposure. We&... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

If you are running BlogEngine.NET 2.0 or BlogEngine.NET 2.5, there's a couple of updates we have made after 2.5 was released to address some issues that may affect your blog.  This update is not critical, however if you are maintaining your BlogEngine.NET 2.0 or 2.5 installation, we recommend you apply this update to your blog installation. To apply update, download the appropriate file belo... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

We’ve been working on gallery site for BlogEngine.NET extensions, themes and widgets and site is finally ready for BlogEngine community to share components in centralized location. Over the next few weeks we’ll be moving content from our “extensions” page to the gallery, converting it to BlogEngine 2.0 and uploading packages to repository. If you have extension, theme or wi... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

We are pleased to announce Janko Jovanovic officially joining BlogEngine team as The Man behind our major UI 2.0 design effort. Many BlogEngine users know and love Janko’s blog and find there many useful tips and valuable resources. Janko has number of publications on UI usability and interaction design and his work with BlogEngine.NET will be continuation of this theme he is clearly so pass... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

We have reports from bloggers that there is new spam in town - pingback spam. Here is what you can do to stop it. 1. Disable Go to admin/settings/advanced and remove check mark in "enable pingbacks" and "enable trackbacks" opting to not receive them. 2. Patch Spammers used flaw in the white list logic that allowed any user who already posted number of comments on the blog to bypass validation ... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

Here is update status and links of interest for BlogEngine users. We'll try to publish this regularly, if you have something to share with community please let us know in the comments. Road map We updated road map to BlogEngine 2.0 which is coming in the end of this year. We'll talk more on it later - it is a long road :) Mercurial Project source moved to Mercurial - our hope is that it will f... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

BlogEngine.NET 1.6.1 is available for download on Codeplex. It is optional update, here details to help you make a decision if you need to refresh your blog. What changed from 1.6.0? 1 We tuned-up comment management to make automated moderation easier 2 Added reCaptcha 3 Added option to switch comments to Disqus 4 Minor bug fixes. How do I use new features? - Using reCaptcha - Using Disqus... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

There have been quite a few additions to resource file for upcoming BlogEngine.NET 1.6 release. These changes are finalized as change-set 1.5.1.39 at CodePlex - unless you come up with really good reason for improvement, which is always welcome. If you are maintaining a language pack, this is a good time to get it up to date. Please submit your translations as a patch at CodePlex or upload it here... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!