As anothe post [Markdown Support with DNN Blog Posts] said, our blogging module called SunBlog currently supports Markdown to write your post in DNN platform. This guide will show you how to write rich content for DNN CMS far faster than almost any other method.

As you know,  Window Live Writer is like Word for your blog. However, Windows 10 does not support Window Live Writer any more and you can not install WLW for blog writing/content. Luckly, the Open Live Writer is another alternative writer for blogging. Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog.

Our DNN blog module SunBlogNuke straight out of the box comes ready to embrace any changes and always compatible well with the latest DNN core package DNN9. Not only we will apply any handy tools, such as SPA framework and Bootstrap UI framework, with our products, but also we assure that SunBlogNuke is still the best publishing tool with News, Magazine & Articles, for example Markdown support with better writing experience and the core Html/Text module is on road of integration.

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

What is ContentSlider 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.

Even if DNN known as best CMS in .net platform, plus some excellent WYSIWYG editors, such as CKEdior and RadEditor, it interrupts writing with some weird issues from time to time; WYSIWYG makes it easy to write poor HTML. So we try to find alternative instead of WYSIWYG Editor, a quicker, more efficient way to publish web texts.

Markdown mirrors HTML. When you write in Markdown you’re thinking about structure and meaning, not appearance. Quality control is easier in Markdown than WYSIWYG.

With best blogging module #SunBlogNuke, we will help you get started into the wonderful world of Markdown in DNN! Blogging your way and enjoy life. :)

Our DNN blog module SunBlogNuke straight out of the box comes ready to embrace search engines It comes with several built-in features for SEO Its features and functions guide a search engine through the posts pages and categories to help the search engine crawl your site and gather the information it needs to include your site within its database.

Today we are glad to announce that SunBlogNuke v8.0.3 is available to free upgrade.

As you know, DNN8 with MVC and SAP released for a while and DNN9 is on road for next generation CMS. So this building v8 will focus on more attentions on integrating with DNN8 framework. More exciting things are lots of handy features implemented in this package, for example Markdown support for better writing experience. Hope win business together :)

Why not have a try? Get started now.

SunBlogNuke Version 8.0.3
Min DotNetNuke version required: v7.1.0

• ENH - totally compatible with DNN8.
• ENH - support feed for aggregating output contentslider widget.
• ENH - support markdown writing for blog content.
• ENH - Razor template support with $YOURTHEME/_Shared/@_xxx.cshtml.
• ENH - integrated with bootstrap FontAwesome style with removing old images and styles.
• ENH - support core themes to be copied for new theme building with more customizations.
• ENH - optimizations about tags combine action, including new jQuery auto-complete plugin.
• ENH - Gravatar can be hosted by alternative proxy service, such as http://gravatar.duoshuo.com/avatar .
• FIX - Disqus comment component not work due to settings not save.
• FIX - Tags with Chinese characters not work with TagCloud plugin in the tag view.
• FIX - Permalink not work in built-in search result.
• FIX - author displayed as "anonymous" issue if he/she deleted from blog user list.

As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.

1. If you are still using older versions, we recommended that you should upgrade this stable package.
2. If you are applying upgrade process, please BACK UP YOUR CHANGES BEFORE PROCEEDING and follow up the suggested upgrade path: v2.1->v5.2->v6.0+.

You can get it here. We hope that with this generation dnn blog module you can enjoy the blog writing and it will make your life better; plus if you have any good advice about our products, please feel free to leave a comment or contact us.

The SunBlogNuke Team

What is Highlight.js?

Highlight.js is a syntax highlighter written in JavaScript. It works in the browser as well as on the server. It works with pretty much any markup, doesn’t depend on any framework and has automatic language detection.

Project on Github

Next we would like to show you how to integrate DNN Blog with Javascript syntax highlighter - Highlight.js with some simple steps. Enjoying it soon :)

Today we are glad to announce that SunBlogNuke v7.0.5 is available to free upgrade. It looks a long time without any updates from our team, however, don’t worry about this project and we are still paying lots of attentions on developing better software/products for you and it will be never dead :)

As for any new website based DNN framework, the building DNN7 should be recommended, no doubt. So this building focus on more attentions on integrating with DNN7 framework, for example, the separate url provider based "Advanced Url" component of DNN core. More exciting things are lots of handy featured implemented in this package. Seamlessly integration with 3rd party commercial module also taken into account, for example, MyTokens now supported well. Hope win business together :)

Why not have a try? Get started now.

SunBlogNuke Version 7.0.5
Min DotNetNuke version required: v7.1.0

• ENH - supported email templates for subscription feature and now you can configure different email templates for specific blog instance.
• ENH - supported to access more properties of DNN core profile in the theme level, such as FirstName or LastName of blog author like "<%=Entry.AuthorProfile.FirstName%>".
• ENH - supported category image to show in the list of dashboard if exist.
• ENH - supported 'bulk delete' action for entries list of dashboard.
• ENH - meta title/description & header for archives view configurable for better SEO purpose.
• ENH - resolved ugly slug with friendly text/characters, for example, it will automatically transform "some $ugly ###url wit[]h spaces" into "some-ugly-url-with-spaces".
• ENH - integrated with MyTokens module(http://my-tokens.dnnsharp.com/) of DNNSharp corp, including dnn core tokens.
• ENH - totally compatible with DNN7
• ENH - integrated with lots of DNN7 core features, such as friendly url extesnion.
• ENH - supported new search API of DNN7 with implementing "ModuleSearchBase".
• ENH - replaced code editor in theme customization panel with dnn core one - CodeMirror plugin.
• ENH - disabled keywords auto retrieved from tags when empty due to irrelevant keywords - http://sixestate.com/meta-keyword-tags-still-useful/.
• ENH - updated obsolete methods & profile widget.
• ENH - support option to limit page links of pagination control.
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• FIX - post thumbnail removed after editing post and threw exception when uploading the same thumbnail.
• FIX - blog export url not found 404 when portal built by sub folder format like "http://www.domainname.com/subportal_xx".
• FIX - enclosure url not resolved with absolute path in the RSS feed.
• FIX - Google recaptcha not built by https with DNN secure enable.
• FIX - shortcut ctrl-enter feature of search box not work with DNN7.
• FIX - social icons not pop up properly on hover status with DNN7 style.

As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.

If you are still using older versions, we recommended that you should upgrade this stable package.

If you are applying upgrade process, please BACK UP YOUR CHANGES BEFORE PROCEEDING and follow up the suggested upgrade path: v2.1->v5.2->v6.0+.

You can get it here. We hope that with this generation dnn blog module you can enjoy the blog writing and it will make your life better; plus if you have any good advice about our products, please feel free to leave a comment or contact us.

The SunBlogNuke Team

As our blogging module #SunBlogNuke# are applied in more DNN websites, some clients requires customization based on their specific requirements. The unique UI layout including theme will be a common issue. Toady we would like to share tokens reference of theme view with some samples so that you can get started to customization easily. As our blogging module #SunBlogNuke# are applied in more DNN websites, some clients requires customization based on their specific requirements. The unique UI layout including theme will be a common issue. Toady we would like to share tokens reference of theme view with some samples so that you can get started to customization easily. Useful built-in methods CategoryLinks(string delimiter): to build separated category links with desired delimiter(such as commas. Code Sample: <%=CategoryLinks(", ")%> CategoryLinks(string delimiter, string token): to build separated category links with desired delimiter(such as commas) and format token. ...