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're very pleased to announce the release of BlogEngine.NET 2.0.  It can be downloaded here. We accomplished meeting most of our Roadmap goals.  The most visible change is the redesign of the control panel.  Many thanks to team member Janko Jovanovic for this much more modern control panel UI.  There's now a Dashboard, and new pages to View all of your Posts and Pages, which ... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!

Just several months after version 1.6 was released, we're happy to announce that a Release Candidate for BlogEngine.NET 2.0 is available. We accomplished meeting most of our Roadmap goals.  The most visible change is the redesign of the control panel.  Many thanks to team member Janko Jovanovic for this much more modern control panel UI.  There's now a Dashboard, and new pages to V... [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!

The team is proud to announce the release of BlogEngine.NET version 1.6.  With several new features and numerous improvements and bug fixes, this is a must upgrade version for current BlogEngine.NET users and those interested in entering the blog scene.For those who receive a steady dose of comment spam (and who doesn't!), a new powerful Comment Management and Comment Spam Filtering infrastru... [More]* BlogEngine.NET Hosting – Get 3 Months Absolutely Free!