SunBlogNuke - DotNetNuke Blog Module

Updated for the v4.2.5. As for the SunBlog module, the installation process is simple and similar with any other dnn standard modules. You can upload the install package (PA) from the "Install New Module/Extension" panel. When it have been installed successfully, the following modules are added to the DNN site and also you will find them in the "Module Definitions" panel: SunBlog: this is the main SunBlog module. SunBlog – Authors Widget: this is one of SunBlog's featured utility module to display a list of authors for the blog. SunBlog - TagCloud Widget: it allows to display a list of tags retrieved from one specific blog with tagcloud or tag cumulus mode. SunBlog - Recent Comments Widget: it allows to display a list of recent comments retrieved from one specific blog. SunBlog - Categories Widget: it allows to display a list of categories/blogs retrieved from one specific blog. SunBlog – Content Slider Widget: this is one of SunBlog's featured utility module. Use ...

Updated for SunBlogNuke v4.2.5 Let us start the blogging journey in DNN now. 1) Log in with Admin privileges. 2) Create the User Account for the blogger, if they don’t already have one. 3) (Optional) Assign them a security role that has/will have View and Edit privileges to the page their blog will be on (you can do this later if you don’t know who you want to set up as the blogger yet). 4) Create the page that will have the blog and install the main blog module on it.  In the tutorial we select RightPane as the location to place the module. After the SunBlog module is added to the page, the following modules are placed in the RightPane, as shown below: SunBlog View SunBlog Meta SunBlog Category SunBlog Archive SunBlog TagCloud SunBlog Search Note that on Page Settings, we may want to assign View and Edit privileges to the Security Role that the user has been or will be assigned to. That is optional and is related with the steps 3). 5) (Optional) let’s move the SunBlog mo ...

Here we list some settings you should know about SunBlogNuke.

1. How to configure the length of the summary?

The excerpt (summary) of recent posts list works in the following way:
1) If you check "Full show in entrylist", it will show your entire post. If not, go step 2.
2) If you fill in the excerpt for your post, it will show the excerpt always. If not, go step 3.
3) It will show the auto-generated excerpt from your entire entry with the option "Limit auto-generated summary to", which you can find in the "Reading" settings.

Just reinstall SunBlogNuke like the fresh installation and it will be upgraded. You go to "host->module definitions", click "add new module" action menu, select the module zip file (no need to do anything to that zip file first). Note that you need to do some backups with one of the following ways: Common Way: 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. Lightweight and quick way: Just back up your customized works, include the theme, style, view controls and Local Resources files. Note that you may do some combinations or works after it if you had done some customization or there are some errors. Until now if you would like to upgrade it with latest package in your DNN4 website, the reco ...