SunBlogNuke - DotNetNuke Blog Module

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.

As our popular blogging module #SunBlogNuke applied in more and more websites, it may fit most user sceneries for clients but actually some awesome features also hidden in the background. Today we would like to share you 5 killer features you should be interested in. Let us get started the investigation now.

After integration SunBlogNuke with Window Live Writer, you may wonder where to find or what to replace the excerpt field in the built-in edit post panel. There is one elegant workaround – using the <!--more--> tag to mark the end of the excerpt. Fortunately, there is a setting property called "supportsExtendedEntries" in the wlwmanifest.xml depending on the feature. Please note that setting this value to true will allow the <!--more--> tag in your Window Live Writer. 

What you need to accomplish is placing your cursor where you want the “Read More” tag and selecting “Split Post” from the “Format” menu. Then the collection page and simple entry partial will be modified to have a "Read More" link whenever there is extended content. Have  a look at the screenshot as follows:

Also you can see the more features integrated with WLW, for example, keyword, category and slug etc. :)

This post was summarized with the original forum post "Post Blog Entries from Office 2010".

As you know, our dnn blogging module – SunBlogNuke supports the remote 3rd-party publishing tool, in other words, you can use a third-party Desktop/Mobile application for your dnn blog which we call it “Remote Posting”. Microsoft Office 2010 is one of remote Posting app with just a few simple steps. It indeed makes publishing a blog post so easy that you might just be in total amazement. Please refer to the tutorial for more instruction - How To Create and Publish Blog Posts in Word 2010 & 2007. And some following notes you should know:

1) Connecting SunBlogNuke with Microsoft Office 2010/2007, you need to fill in the "Blog Post Url" with the link "http://www.domain.com/DesktopModules/SunBlog/MetaWeblog.ashx". Just replace "domain" with your real domain name.
2) Unfortunately, Microsoft Word still doesn’t let you add things like tags, custom fields, SEO options, etc; so it is probably a good idea to choose the Publish As Draft option so that you can add those things and then publish from your blog.

In the end, we would like to let you know that actually we prefer to use Window Live Writer as remote publishing tool and it supplies more flexible features :)

As you know, there are lots of 3rd party services integrated with SunBlogNuke, such as Active Social module & Gravatar. Here we will cover another awesome external service - Posterous, with which you can easily build cross-post - only write your post in the Posterous and then autopost it to your SunBlogNuke source with one click.

Some Screenshots about SunBlogNuke:

Clear Administrative Panel

Integration with Windows Live Writer and so easy to manage your posts

Free and extreme SunBlogNuke themes directory

More will be available later. Please stay tune.

This tutorial covers how to fix issues said "No Blogs Found on Server" meaning "you do not have currently have an active blog" when connecting our dnn blog module with Window Live Writer at the first time. Hope it helps if you also encountered the same problem.

In the past months there are lots of feature requests for Ultimate DNN Blog Module – SunBlogNuke from our customers; we are appreciate those feedback and review them carefully. Today the enhanced version SunBlogNuke 3.1.0 is available with automatic authors assignment, which is also one of the high priority feature requests. As usual, the complete details for all of the changes can be found in the Release Notes.

Major Highlights (updated for fixed version 3.3)

• Supported the sort order feature when editing categories.
• Supported links in comments.
• Fixed the issue where multiple contents in the core search results.
• Fixed the issue where TagCumulus disappear without enabling Friendly Urls.
• Fixed issue where all featured posts disappear when posted back.
• Fixed issue where there are spaces in tags.
• Fixed issue with the tagcloud where it is not compatible with the iFinity URL Master module.
• Fixed issue where all posts disappear when upgrading with v2.4.x.
• Enhanced RPC client service with Metaweblog API.
• Enhanced RssFeed output and fixed some Rss format validate issues.
• Provided the switch option to control the comments order, like from oldest to newest or vice versa.
• Extended blog permission/role – Allow bind the blog role with DNN core role. You get the detailed issue from the post - Automatic authors assignment.
• Fixed issue where toolbar and share icons cut off in IE.
• Supported for RSS auto-discovery aggregation so that your blog RSS feed is easily accessible to visitors for subscribing to it in the latest web browsers, such as IE or Firefox.
• Supported for RSD (Really Simple Discoverability) which allows client software to auto-discover RPC services using nothing more than the URL for your blog.
• Other fixes and 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

Today I would like to a detailed tutorial to share how to utilize the built-in lightbox(or facebox) feature of ultimate dnn blog module – SunBlogNuke when you want to show more big and clear presentation within dnn blog post.

We bought several other Blog Modules, and found SunBlog to be not only the most powerful, but it has the best integration into Windows Live Writer. Their support is great also.

Chip Meyer (thechip.com)