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!